Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may appear rather odd that a book on an emerging language devotes a chapter to the process of translating meaning from that language to another and vice versa ( especially when this second language will be , virtually always , English ) , but the development of BSL , and its community of users is so bound up in its treatment by hearing people that it is essential to have some discussion on the matter . |
| 2 | When he thought about it , Nigel did find it a little odd that a photographer should return after he 'd finished a job . |
| 3 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 4 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 5 | From time to time there are cases where the provocation is so gross and so strong that a court imposes a very short prison sentence or even a suspended sentence for the manslaughter — typically , cases where a wife , son , or daughter kills a persistently bullying husband or father — and such cases raise the more general question of whether provocation should ever be a complete defence to homicide or to other crimes . |
| 6 | To this day , public fascination with the disaster remains so strong that a flourishinhg market has developed for Titanic memorabilia . |
| 7 | In some cases , preferences are relatively weak , so that two ordered results are produced ; in others , the preferences are so strong that a second result is not produced . |
| 8 | The museum , owned by U.S. Aerobatic Team member Kermit Weeks , was totally demolished by winds reported to have exceeded 200 mph — so strong that a DC-6 which had been parked at the airport was found over a mile away . |
| 9 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 10 | He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop . |
| 11 | Already losses in fibre are so low that a light signal can travel well over 16 km before it halves in intensity ( a 3 dB loss ) . |
| 12 | There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers . |
| 13 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 14 | If an animal can be looked after or rescued on the Sabbath day , then it seems somewhat strange that a person in need could not be helped . |
| 15 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 16 | As many as one in five of the population attends an accident and emergency unit every year , yet staff shortages are so acute that a quarter of the 239 units in England and Wales do not have a trained consultant in charge . |
| 17 | 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 ’ . |
| 18 | Moreover , the supporters of Morgan add , this should not lead to unmeritorious acquittals , because juries will not allow bogus defences to succeed : in Morgan itself the House of Lords was satisfied that the basis for the defence was so weak that a correctly directed jury would have found the defendants guilty . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Perhaps the target is so unrealistic that a short-fall is inevitable . |
| 21 | After the 1979 Conservative victory , it is less clear that a party will suffer if it advocates policies which are a clear break with the past . |
| 22 | The demands of children can be so insistent that a mother never uses the odd quiet moment to sit down with them and enjoy their company ; the temptation is always to seek out the next task . |
| 23 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 24 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 25 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 26 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |
| 27 | Bomb hoax — placing imitation bomb in shop — whether offence so serious that a non-custodial sentence for it can not be justified |
| 28 | This indicates that if the court 's desire is to protect the public from persons who take vehicles without the owner 's consent , that is by a sense of general deterrence , then this particular criterion of the Criminal Justice Act will not be applicable The question posed for the courts must be whether taking a vehicle without consent can ever , as an individual offence , be so serious that a non-custodial sentence can not be considered . |
| 29 | But Judge Robin David told Dodman : ‘ This matter is so serious that a custodial sentence is inevitable . |
| 30 | But Judge Robin David told Dodman : ‘ This matter is so serious that a custodial sentence is inevitable . ’ |