Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Phoebe loathed housekeeping so profoundly that she felt guilty about it and always did it with a disciplined and joyless rigour , expecting everyone else to do so too . |
| 2 | This had now been soldered to the main building so well that you could n't see the join . |
| 3 | She got in the canoe so rapidly that she nearly tipped it over . |
| 4 | Christopher 's outstretched right hand was running slowly through her hair , touching her head at the roots and pulling the hair outwards so that it fell back like a fan . |
| 5 | The thick forests growing on the flanks of the volcano were completely levelled , in some cases so completely that it was hard to tell that there once had been trees growing there . |
| 6 | Many managers feel that they understand how to run meetings so well that they hardly need to prepare at all . |
| 7 | If we want parents to enjoy meetings so much that they will want to repeat the experience then a number of basic issues need to be addressed : |
| 8 | British and Empire troops dug in and organized their defences so rapidly that all German counter-attacks the following day were thrown back and even more ground gained . |
| 9 | She plaited her hair so tightly that it hurt her , straining hair and flesh until it felt as though the white seam down the back of her head might split and the brains gush out . |
| 10 | Indeed , he took his responsibility so seriously that he had to be dissuaded from resignation . |
| 11 | However , Mr Major made his frankest admission so far that the Tory campaign had been dogged by the recession . |
| 12 | Some dealers find it hilarious when clients take their investments so seriously that they investigate the OTC companies personally . |
| 13 | They would unite with the workers over their struggle for economic improvements only so that ‘ by smuggling in the Marxian doctrine , [ they could ] transform it into the ideological struggle of classes . ’ |
| 14 | Hotspur 's lance , steadily lowered as he came , selected its target , the foremost knight on the tallest horse , and struck the uplifted shield so strongly that the shock flattened its bearer back upon his horse 's crupper ; but he kept his seat gamely , rolling under the lance as it flashed by , to recover dizzily and swing a vehement though ineffective stroke with his sword , before the lurch and sway of the press carried him away . |
| 15 | His upper jaw kept clamping down on his lower jaw with a loud grinding noise , and chewed through each morsel so thoroughly that we could hear his teeth striking against each other … |
| 16 | He relates it to Lennie so often that he almost begins to believe it himself , although underneath he knows that it can never happen . |
| 17 | She defended her case so well that the prior gave judgement in her favour . |
| 18 | Finally , if asked to do so , tie all the scripts together so that none goes astray . |
| 19 | Could the government not spend the money better now that the Soviet Union , the last obvious threat to Swiss independence , has gone away ? |
| 20 | In three hours we managed to get the contractors to build an earth ramp , roll it flat , cover it with gravel and put a handrail alongside so that people could walk down from the road to a flat area beside the ceremony site . |
| 21 | It too articulated social reform , but in spite of popular appeals to the people and to the common good , its narrow sectional base was sharply exposed by discourses around the struggles of the unemployed , The Alliance advocacy of cuts in relief undermined its support so drastically that the ground it lost on the council was never recovered . |
| 22 | Think about how you will read the story aloud so that your listener will find it interesting and amusing . |
| 23 | The species of angler fish that lives in the Sargasso Sea is blotched and betasselled in a way that matches the floating sargassum weed so closely that the angler is virtually invisible to the eye of a human being , just as it is to that of a small fish , a shrimp or any other marine creature that might drift through the surface waters of that stagnant sea . |
| 24 | She saw the children of her other daughters Ann and Beth most market days , but encountered Victoria so rarely that each time she had altered beyond recognition . |
| 25 | By the third day they were quarrelling openly and at times so fiercely that the knights standing around went for their swords . |
| 26 | Forty years ago , one of De Gaulle 's greatest admirers , the writer , Franois Mauriac , summed up typical French distrust after nearly a century of conflict by saying that he loved Germany so much that he was glad there were two of them . |
| 27 | One potential second ascensionist who shall remain nameless ( clue : he lives in Wallyford ) tried to seat the gear on the crux so violently that he took an 80′ near groundfall when six runners ripped ! ! |
| 28 | The garages blend the different fuels together so that it is impossible to tell the difference between the blended mixture and unadulterated 4-star . |
| 29 | Times are so hard for the major Japanese computer manufacturers right now that they plan to lobby the government for financial aid to keep their surplus employees on the payroll . |
| 30 | Right now I should be putting the frighteners on the lot of them — by flinging Rainbow back behind the wheel , and sending the taxi southwards down the northbound carriageway at a speed so fast that all the aunties ' lives flash in a whizzing 360-degree pan before their eyes , or by rendering the whole equipage airborne while the driver uses the remnants of her chopped-chicken-liver-on-rye to strafe the unsuspecting Anglicans of Wherwell , Winchester and Nether Wallop . |