Example sentences of "[adj] [that] it [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The linguistic explanation of legare as a general term helps , then , to explain some serious awkwardnesses , but it is not clear that it disposes of all entirely . |
| 2 | To begin with the efficacy of parliamentary control , it is clear that it suffers from the federal constitution itself : the intricacy of policy decisions , complex inter-governmental decision-making structures at the national , sub-national and supranational level , and the inherent complexity of new policy areas , have all made parliamentary scrutiny more difficult . |
| 3 | In fact , the Report makes clear that it aims at much more . |
| 4 | some women do and I 'm not quite clear that it has to be so definite as as er |
| 5 | It seems sensible that it goes with wherever the |
| 6 | He concluded by stating that he had been ‘ compelled to trench on political questions as well as economic — because I feel we are approaching a situation that is so grave that it compares with the War , when we were compelled to act together in self-defence ’ . |
| 7 | The tension in the room was so high that it flowed like an invisible electric charge . |
| 8 | I mean that the data on spontaneous abortion is so unmistakable that it seems to me that artificially induced abortions are just a continuation with modern technology of something women have always done anyway discriminate against their ab about their offspring , sometimes discriminating against them . |
| 9 | These units could then be regarded as repeatedly subdivisible to the point that the final dimension is so minute that it stands in the same relation to the highest human capacity for feeling as does the single cell to the supreme achievement of cellular development , which is the physical human being . |
| 10 | I 'm afraid that it looks as if the game will be completely ruined . |
| 11 | Alice Wilson 's cellar dwelling with its brick floor ‘ so damp that it seemed as if the last washing could never dry up ’ would not be far distant from the Davenports ' if the nature of that ‘ dampness ’ were defined . |
| 12 | It is possible that it came from the east of the Frankish confederacy , rather than the Rhineland . |
| 13 | It is also possible that it leads to a change in the Pattern of bequests . |
| 14 | I 'm just sorry that it had to be Oldham . ’ |
| 15 | When it was midnight and Rodrigo was fast asleep , the leper breathed against him between his shoulders , and that breath was so strong that it passed through him , even through his breast ; and he awoke , being astounded , and felt for the leper by him , and found him not ; and he began to call him , but there was no reply . |
| 16 | This camp was so strong that it remained as a major fortress for the Garonne region for centuries to follow . |
| 17 | The appeals court found that the Koons copying of the photo was so complete that it went beyond the bounds of the ‘ fair use ’ doctrine , which allows artists , authors and journalists to ‘ quote ’ from other works . |
| 18 | His triumph was so complete that it seemed to him that he must surely radiate some evident joy . |
| 19 | His impact was such that it led to further villainy — as the probably gay hit man in the Big Combo ( 1955 ) , as a rapist and murderer in Ride Lonesome ( 1959 ) , as Lee Marvin 's psychotic side-kick in The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance ( 1962 ) as well as more conventional heavies in Gunfight at the OK Corral ( 1956 ) , The Tin Star ( 1957 ) and How the West Was Won ( 1962 ) . |
| 20 | Transmission across the callosum takes time and necessitates crossing at least one synaptic junction , during which the information is said to undergo some degree of transformation such that it arrives at the second hemisphere in a comparatively degraded state ( McKeever and Huling , 1971a ; Gross , 1972 ; Gibson , Dimond and Gazzaniga , 1972 ) . |
| 21 | In other words the limits on the knowing subject 's cognition are such that it has to be mediated in a social and discursive context for anything like truth to be achieved : |
| 22 | Such an image had little real relevance to the situation he was ostensibly addressing , although its private significance was such that it reappeared in his later creative work . |
| 23 | ‘ Vehicular traffic light signal ’ is defined as follows : ‘ Three lights shall be used , one red , one amber and one green … the lamp showing the amber light shall be capable of showing a steady light or a flashing light such that it flashes at a rate of not less than 70 nor more than 90 flashes per minute etc . |
| 24 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 25 | erm During the four years of war , however , erm and indeed right up to his death in nineteen twenty-two , Proust revised and enlarged his novel so much that it trebled in length , and the publication was not in fact completed until after his death in nineteen twenty-seven . |
| 26 | As a strongly international business it is more appropriate that it appears beside the Big Four rather than with the British consultancies . |
| 27 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 28 | It stood about a quarter of a mile from the house in a triple circle of beech trees , an isolated building so small and perfect that it looked like an architect 's model precisely set in a fabricated landscape , or an elegant ecclesiastical folly , justifying itself only by its classical purity , as distanced from religion as it was from life . |
| 29 | Amendment of the Irish constitution is , of course , a matter for the Republic , but I am glad that it continues to be an issue that could be tackled in fresh political talks . |
| 30 | David Lloyd , his captain at Lancashire , tells a story that once in a Gillette Cup match against Gloucestershire at Old Trafford , Clive Lloyd edged a ball from Mike Procter so hard that it went for six . |