Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] that a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I was rather surprised that a family must pay 3.50 for adults and 2.50 for kids to visit and listen to the BBC 's exhibition of favourite old radio programmes at Broadcasting House . |
| 2 | In fact the man 's examination of his papers was so cursory that a lot of Hapsburg ingenuity had evidently been wasted . |
| 3 | The danger of a break through the northern end of the spit was so apparent that a sea wall was built along this section in 1890 . |
| 4 | Demand was so great that a commentary of the programmes was published . |
| 5 | The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised . |
| 6 | The controversy was so deep that an appeal was made to Rome by the combatants . |
| 7 | He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop . |
| 8 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 9 | That might not have mattered unduly , but their early form was so ordinary that a lack of impact off the pitch was compounded by a comparable shortage of flair on it . |
| 10 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 11 | The yacht was so new that a price has yet to be established . |
| 12 | In the words of one of them , the background noise was so loud that a rifle shot sounded comparable to ‘ the popping of a champagne cork amid the hubbub of a banquet ’ . |
| 13 | His body ached mainly through lack of sleep , he told himself , reluctant to admit he was so unfit that a mile walk had drained him of energy . |
| 14 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 15 | For many years , courts in the United States failed to understand the Latin American approach ; the failure was so fundamental that a plaintiff in a Latin American republic had no means of serving process on a defendant in the United States . |
| 16 | The ice was so thick that an elephant was able to walk down it — and did . |
| 17 | Whatever her reasoning , I was greatly shocked that a woman of her achievements and reputation should stoop to such shabby fibbing . |
| 18 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 19 | China would not wish Russian interest in Korea to be increased but it was more likely that a regime headed by Kim Il Sung would move along lines independent of Moscow . |
| 20 | And it was equally insistent that a policy of retreat would cause dismay in Washington , thereby diminishing Britain 's ability to exert influence over American policy . |
| 21 | The British public was well aware that an invasion was threatened . |
| 22 | The City Council examines travel patterns from settlements around York , and it was quite noticeable that a number of settlements to the north east of York did actually have a substantial commuting pattern to West Yorkshire . |
| 23 | Obviously he was then lucky that a lot of outstanding players began to come into the team at the same period , men like Richards , Greenidge , Roberts , Holding , Croft , Garner , and he had material of the highest class on which to work . |
| 24 | It was almost predictable that a perfectionist like Pérignon would not rest until he found a bottle strong enough to withstand the internal pressure exerted by a sparkling wine . |
| 25 | It was actually obvious that a burglary had occurred but I refused to take it in . |
| 26 | Add in the poor world 's anti-Americanism and the mixture is potent : no one was very surprised that a bomb was planted in the American ambassador 's residence in Jakarta soon after the war began . |