Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that they do " in BNC.
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| 1 | The other apostles , whose faith was so strong that they did not need evidence , are held up to us as worthy of imitation . |
| 2 | My own opinion is that the salaries of judges are so low that they do not attract the best brains . |
| 3 | Umpires David Shepherd and John Holder chivvied them several times , but although the players might deny it suited them tactically to keep as many of their batting overs in hand for the next day when better weather was promised , it is difficult to dismiss the thought that the level of fines was so derisory that they did not give it a thought . |
| 4 | The French , on the other hand , are so clear that they do n't make sense either . |
| 5 | The behavioural patterns are so different that they do not mix well . |
| 6 | The Basque troubles are seen by most Spaniards as so tangled that they do not blame the current Socialist government of Felipe Gonzalez for failing to end the strife . |
| 7 | The inexperienced pilots often try to soar in unusable lift , and they concentrate so hard that they do n't recognise that they are drifting away and are not going to get back to the field . |
| 8 | Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights . |
| 9 | D H S S , because very often , they either ca n't get telephone boxes working , or they 're hanging on so long that they do n't have enough money |
| 10 | No wonder he claims his fans are all threatening to top themselves ; they 're so stupid that they do n't realise jumping off a five-foot-high stage wo n't kill them — IM |
| 11 | They represent an area of the business whose prospects are so poor that they do not justify any further investment . |
| 12 | They were made bearable only because Rosie and Francisco were so happy that they did n't notice her moods . |
| 13 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The fact that we 'd all been put together was universally accepted as a sign that the end was so close that they did n't need to keep us apart any longer . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm not sure that they did . |
| 17 | her parents , but they , they do n't have their friends , in fact I 'm not sure that they did very much at all , I think that Myrie meant it when she said that what they wanted was the most peaceful sort of Christmas that you could possibly imagine , with no big teas , big meals or anything |
| 18 | Amphibians in the wild are food for so many other animals that it is not surprising that they do not always show themselves well even in confinement . |
| 19 | I am not surprised that they did n't tell me about it ; we had very little money in our house . |
| 20 | Many of these insect-feeding birds have a line of bristles around their beaks which at one time were thought to channel weakly-flying insects into the open beak but now it seems more likely that they do no more than protect the birds ' eyes as they deliberately plunge through clouds of insects . |
| 21 | I just think that she was genuinely worried that they did n't seem to know a lot about it . |
| 22 | If their view of God is what they say , then it is more surprising that they did not reject it much earlier . |
| 23 | Both these relationships are of course what might have been predicted a priori , in fact it is more surprising that they did not appear in the Groeger and Chapman study than that they do in this one . |
| 24 | Had all consultants done this , the problem would have evaporated , but it was hardly surprising that they did not , since the gilt on the medical gingerbread came from private practice . |
| 25 | ‘ It 's true that you ca n't blame an animal for its nature , but it 's also true that they do a lot of harm . |
| 26 | But , they also go on headed note paper which says Oxford City Council Environmental Health Department and all the other stuff we put on the top , erm and it 's perfectly clear that they do come from the City Department upon your behalf . |
| 27 | They threw him out of college because of cocaine , and he was damn lucky that they did n't call the police , but all he 'd say to me was to stay cool ! |
| 28 | However early performers and audiences construed the metaphors or the financial/numerical language , it is fairly certain that they did n't explicitly understand them in terms of Freeman 's image schemas , or as explicable in terms of their bodies . |
| 29 | it 's quite interesting that they do it |
| 30 | Many pioneers of women 's education made it quite clear that they did not accept Emily Davies ' view that girls might be trained in the same way as boys , and argued that they should be given an opportunity , by way of , for example , domestic science classes , to prepare for the lives a majority of them would lead as wives and mothers . |