Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] that [pers pn] [vb base] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I am most upset that you have been treated so badly by my countrymen , ’ Gennaro said in a quiet steady voice . |
| 2 | I am acutely conscious that I have been a source of aggravation to Pa recently over my stupid allergy to vegetables ; it can not be pleasant to see the products one has slaved over summer and winter being regurgitated on to the dinner plate of one 's elder child . |
| 3 | Our fund-raising has been just a little slower during the current year after the bumper total achieved in 1985 , but nevertheless it has been most gratifying that we continue to receive contributions from so many classes over a very wide area . |
| 4 | ‘ I am only surprised that you know of it . ’ |
| 5 | I am so pleased that we have solved the dilemma and we can feel morally superior ! |
| 6 | I believe they represent the very best of the BBC 's tradition in journalism and I am so pleased that you have chosen to honour them . |
| 7 | ‘ James , ’ she said in a flat voice , ‘ I am so glad that you have come . ’ |
| 8 | The blocks are produced because andesite lavas are so viscous that they flow as plastic , rather than liquid , materials and consist of an outer chilled surface of solid rock with a steady progression towards increasing plasticity in the hotter , central parts of the flow . |
| 9 | Brooding busts by Frink are so powerful that they dominate the largest room in the exhibition . |
| 10 | We males naturally reject the idea that we 're not at all times ready to cream anything that moves as a monstrous slander on our virility , while women certainly do n't want to think that creatures whose sexual urges are so undiscriminating that they have been known to rape grannies and animals and even corpses , for God 's sake , could possibly find them so unattractive that they need to simulate orgasm . |
| 11 | These colours are so strong that you have to thin quite a bit to gain softer tones . |
| 12 | Though such rumours can not be proved , they are so endemic that they suggest something of the sort has been occurring . |
| 13 | My own opinion is that the salaries of judges are so low that they do not attract the best brains . |
| 14 | In the middle there is a little pond with a fountain , and the golden carp that swim in it are so tame that they come at the sound of Dennis 's voice . |
| 15 | Those lost souls are so impoverished that they shave their heads in order that they may rub alcohol into them . |
| 16 | The overhead wires are so slight that you have to look hard to see them . |
| 17 | FEW PLACES have such a gentle and equable climate that animals living there never need seek shelter ; and few animals are so well-armed that they do not welcome somewhere to hide from their enemies or a safe nursery for their young . |
| 18 | The simplest explanation for the persistence of the displacement model is that problems arising from pupils ' behaviour are so stressful that they provoke an expedient response . |
| 19 | The pollutions which escape the field officer 's shroud of privacy are those which are so noticeable that they attract widespread public attention , or those where a complainant is of such status that he may enjoy direct contact with senior staff . |
| 20 | But the quantities of lead and nitrates which the EC is making a fuss about are so small that they represent a negligible — perhaps even a non-existent — hazard to health . |
| 21 | We believe that the advantages of insurance are so great that we hope that lenders will try to persuade their customers to take it , voluntarily . |
| 22 | These are so overwhelming that they stop adults going on to do the courses they applied for or enquired about . |
| 23 | There are paints which are so liquid that they resemble inks , paints of a more creamy consistency and also free-flowing acrylics in tubes . |
| 24 | I learned Dimac from a lama in Tibet and my hands are so deadly that I have to keep them in a locked closet when they 're not in use . |
| 25 | Speaking at the charter 's launch , Jonathon Porritt said that it was extraordinary that " people who are paying perhaps £200 a night are so dirty that they need a new towel every night " . |
| 26 | Spreadsheet models are so useful that they have a tendency to outgrow the capabilities of the software that has been used to implement them . |
| 27 | Spreadsheet models are so useful that they have a tendency to outgrow the capabilities of the software that has been used to implement them |
| 28 | A number from the famous Middle Cambrian Burgess Shale of western Canada are so strange that they have even been claimed as the representatives of ‘ extinct phyla ’ . |
| 29 | They represent an area of the business whose prospects are so poor that they do not justify any further investment . |
| 30 | Sometimes our pictures are so inaccurate that we see a person wrongly or miss him altogether . |