Example sentences of "[adv] be [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |
| 2 | It had all been so flimsy that Pascoe had hesitated about presenting it to Dalziel . |
| 3 | The monitors alone are so loud that I am baffled as to how the crew operate without some type of semaphore system . |
| 4 | In fact , she could only be profoundly grateful that none of her business colleagues or any of her smart friends back in London was able to see her looking so awful . |
| 5 | Other people are hoping that the standards that can be set for the 7 , 11 and 14 tests must necessarily be so low that they need hardly be attended to . |
| 6 | The way in is so low that one has to stoop on entering , but inside the cave there is a large water-floored hall with two recesses off . |
| 7 | This apparently was so serious that I had a sudden joyous hallucination . |
| 8 | The sea below was so clear that it was possible to enjoy the underwater antics of swimming guillemots , even from such a height . |
| 9 | Would she even have started the relationship if she had not been reasonably certain that in the end he would not leave his wife ? |
| 10 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 11 | Very few crises elsewhere are so disastrous that they can not wait an average of 30 minutes . |
| 12 | Now of course you ca n't predict at the level of the individual school what the population is going to be , but you can nevertheless be very clear that the system as a whole is going to have many erm fewer pupils . |
| 13 | Thornton was n't quite good enough to take his title , but Eubank might soon be so tired that someone , somewhere , will catch up with him . |
| 14 | Once a site is put back into production , it may not be immediately obvious that the archaeological sites have been destroyed . |
| 15 | And it may not be automatically obvious that whereas in some dictionaries " accountable " will be a separate entry in others it will appear under the general entry of " account " . |
| 16 | Given the colonial context it should not be altogether surprising that literacy experts have rejected the use of indigenous languages to propagate education . |
| 17 | It can not be entirely coincidental that the following years witnessed the heightening of tensions which threatened to divide Oswiu 's kingdom from within . |
| 18 | It can not be entirely coincidental that these years were a time of important new developments in both the Church and the Mercian kingdom . |
| 19 | With all his elaborate political machinery — his control of all the tradesmen in the town and of all the town 's six advowsons , his ownership of some two hundred houses each carrying a vote , his absolute control of the Mayor , the corporation and all the corporation offices — the Marquess of Exeter could not be absolutely certain that the remaining voters would not one day oust his candidates . |
| 20 | I can not be absolutely sure that there is no mention of Idso in the book because of its other glaring omission — there is no index . |
| 21 | Still , he could not be quite sure that he always did that with his bread . |
| 22 | Now that we have taken an overview of the Form method of patterning , I hope that many more knitters will not be as worried that the columns of figures published in magazines and so on , mean nothing to them , since they are n't supposed to in this format . |
| 23 | Now , a lot of the things that you will be writing about will not be that dramatic that you can actually say , ‘ Hey ! |
| 24 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 25 | Women who want a number of children , for instance , may not be too concerned that their contraceptive should be 100 per cent reliable . |
| 26 | Believe it or not , I use a fairly hot iron over the neck area to be cut out — the iron must not be so hot that the fabric melts , but just hot enough to flatten it . |
| 27 | The length of the transition curve depends upon the total change of radius , the velocity of the engine and the permitted superelevation , bearing in mind that the cant must not be so great that if an engine is halted it will topple over . |
| 28 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 29 | The Anglican Henry Dannett provided a further fall-back epistemological basis for vindicating antislavery perceptions of the moral order by arguing that even ‘ if scriptural decisions should appear to contradict our ideas of right and wrong we are still bound to follow those ideas because we can not be so certain that we rightly understand and justly limit those scriptural decisions as we are of our own ideas of right and wrong ’ . |
| 30 | Budgets should be sufficiently detailed to set clear targets for the managers responsible for carrying them out , but should not be so complex that they defeat their purpose of providing planning and control aids at the operating levels of the enterprise ; |