Example sentences of "[det] that [pron] could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lydia was so annoyed at this that she could n't think where to begin but promised herself that Finn should suffer for his insolence . |
| 2 | She was so relieved to hear this that she could not make any further self-sacrifice . |
| 3 | ones the or others , if you 're getting stuck on them , do n't miss something like this that you could do and get full marks . |
| 4 | He knew many people in the village , almost everyone except the newly arrived and the ones who used the village as a dormitory and who worked in Bath or Chippenham or Swindon , but he knew very few that he could classify as friends . |
| 5 | They had n't said to one another that they could n't understand his talk about the Abigails and the Dasses and Mr Plant or the Artilleryman 's Friend . |
| 6 | That suited them when there was little that they could agree the UN should do . |
| 7 | But in the severe turbulence that I encountered I had no control over my canopy and there was very little that I could do . |
| 8 | While de Gaulle did not find it difficult to detect what was in the air , there was little that he could do to influence Allied planning directly . |
| 9 | He insisted that the least he could do would be to pay for the coffee , and he always tried to do the least that he could . |
| 10 | Does he not think that , with a general election coming , if he is confident in his position , the least that he could do would be to put that forward in a general election so that at least people will have an opportunity to give a view before they are committed by the right hon. Gentleman 's signature of a treaty of this magnitude ? |
| 11 | It is such that nothing could get in the way of its operation save changes logically inconsistent with it or with its effect or with a causal sequence of which it and its effect are parts . |
| 12 | If there were , for instance , a conceptual link between mental state and behaviour such that we could not conceive of the behaviour being present without the ( or some ) mental state , the argument from analogy would be unnecessary . |
| 13 | I think I have to make the point to you that we are planning to roughly double the size of the er airforce equipment programme er between now and the end of the century , a very substantial chunk of that is E F two thousand and its er associated weapon systems and , you know , one has to frankly , take er a view on priorities er in the light of the strategic requirement and given the er extent of the threat as we see it , the possibility of using er of taking part in out of area operations in coalitions , that kind of thing , that was the judgement we took er the medium term priorities were such that we could n't afford the first er stage of A M S A M. |
| 14 | The Roman refining techniques were such that they could easily have produced silver containing only traces of copper ( under 1 per cent ) . |
| 15 | And the sort of er money that wo n't have to pay a reputable alternative theatre it was such that one could n't hope to break even on that capacity with the sort of seat prices that were that we 're charging . |
| 16 | Secondly , it must be said that , from the very start , Christians strained ordinary human language in order to speak of the significance of Christ ; the term Christ was an inclusive term , such that one could speak of persons as being ‘ in Christ ’ . |
| 17 | Brian 's enthusiasm was such that I could n't keep up my negative stance and was soon busy designing peat-moulding machinery , marketing plans and discussing the number of people who could be employed in such schemes . |
| 18 | The Duke told him he had given the trees priority over the house because they took longer to become established , but Kalm drily commented in his diary that his wealth was such that he could have built ‘ a most handsome castle in one year or less ’ . |
| 19 | The personality of the present commander , L Detachment S.A.S. Brigade , is such that he could be given command of the whole force with appropriate rank . |
| 20 | Of course Hayward 's physical condition was such that he could no longer live alone — he had spent the war years as a guest of the Rothschilds in Cambridge and there must have been an element of sympathy or even pity in Eliot 's invitation to him ; the presence of old-fashioned Yankee rectitude in his character , and the quiet acceptance of " duty " in his role as Hayward 's companion and helper , can not be ignored . |
| 21 | ‘ There was no-one in the car and cattle had churned the ground so much that we could not with certainty detect footprints in the vicinity of the car 's entry into the water . |
| 22 | See we we have an awful lot of problems , I mean , not only the question of breaking into one 's home things like , car parking or things of a very high accident risk whereas , if we had a beat officer , at least we could set up some sort of local liaison , in so much that we could tell him about our sort of problems , and perhaps between us , resolve them . |
| 23 | Certain other students simply fell behind so much that they could not catch up later on . |
| 24 | I loved the sadness of it and the staginess … and the tragedy of their loving each other so much that they could not be happy without each other or even manage to make anyone else happy , despite all their niceness and good intentions . ’ |
| 25 | There 's so much that they could learn that would help them in their job . |
| 26 | But her hand was shaking so much that she could not tell the time . |
| 27 | She was shaking so much that she could barely speak . |
| 28 | She burst out laughing , and jumped up and hugged Bryony , who was laughing so much that she could n't catch her breath and had to be thumped on the back . |
| 29 | And it says much that you could make a racer out of the RS road car with a few hours notice . |
| 30 | He wanted to be with her so much that he could hardly breathe . |