Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] that [pers pn] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guardian readers are sufficiently interesting and distinctive that it is worth tolerating the statistical uncertainties caused by our small sample and the Guardian 's small readership . |
| 2 | It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’ |
| 3 | He felt he knew very little about her present feelings , which were so malign toward him and unmapped that it was as if he were seeing the back side of the moon . |
| 4 | Its tail , so fine and thin that it was like a thread of silver , stretched out for ten times its circumference , terminating in a smaller , silvered sphere little thicker than the thread . |
| 5 | And the carpeting throughout so soft and thick that it was like walking on sheepskins … |
| 6 | But seeing the pleading in her eyes and aware that she was on the very brink of womanhood , he knew that he must give her her head and allow her to marry if that was what she wanted . |
| 7 | It was incredible but true — incredible because she 'd only known Fen for a week — incredible because she 'd begun by disliking him — but true that she was in love with him . |