Example sentences of "[adj] was [adv] [adj] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was so successful that the army stopped cycling in some districts . |
| 2 | This was so successful that in May 1873 they took a lease on the Small Hall at the Egyptian Hall in Piccadilly , and opened 26 May 1873 . |
| 3 | All this was so ludicrous that Jane could only laugh in disbelief , until , by accident , she found out the reason for the hostility of the erstwhile ‘ noble ’ family . |
| 4 | Channell told him that supporters who gave $300,000 or more could meet Reagan for 15 minutes , and that their visits were not logged on : ‘ the implication being that this was so secret that the President wanted to keep it so not everybody at the White House knew what was going on . ’ |
| 5 | This was so important that he and some colleagues spent the next two years computing and checking their calculations until they were totally satisfied with the correctness of the result . |
| 6 | This was so important that for each of the national developments a full time National Development Officer ( NDO ) was seconded for a year from a college . |
| 7 | That so far the outlaws had left them alone and kept out of sight troubled them all , this was so unexpected that it increased their fears rather than diminished them . |
| 8 | But there was no answer when she knocked on Louise 's door , nor when she tried another new friend 's door at the far end of the passage , and this was so discouraging that she went back to her own room and cried till her blue eyes wre red-rimmed and swollen . |
| 9 | By now this was so unusual that Karen did n't even realize I 'd come until I told her . |
| 10 | This was so unusual that Sophie asked curiously , ‘ I know you ca n't tell me , but I hope Ian 's news was n't anything bad . |
| 11 | this was bloody good that was ! |
| 12 | Another Orcadian was equally adamant that injustice had been done : ‘ We 're here because we feel it 's very wrong the way the bairns have been uplifted , and they 're being treated quite like criminals really . |
| 13 | Outside one church the crowd of peasants young and old was so large that it was reminiscent of Repin 's famous painting of 1882 of a church procession in this pious guberniia . |
| 14 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 15 | The year 1984 was so active that the markets ' response was both pronounced and rapid . |
| 16 | In such contests everyone concerned was fully aware that there was much more at stake than an annual office . |
| 17 | Picture to yourself the whole theatre which by half past five was so full that not another soul could get in . |
| 18 | Hardstand number two was so little that we could n't get an airplane on there so we parked the gas trucks there . |
| 19 | He explained that as vicar of a large parish he had many and constant duties to perform , but that his interest in the deaf was so great that he would find time to advance their interests as far as he could . |
| 20 | I want to know why Froggy was so confident that his financial ship was about to dock . |
| 21 | Oh yeah that was really sensible that was . |
| 22 | That was really funny that was . |
| 23 | That er I thought that was quite good that in n it ? |
| 24 | That was quite good that was . |
| 25 | that 's right , yeah , that 's right , now that was very useful that was |
| 26 | Yes that was very good that 's excellent . |
| 27 | ‘ At the same time , there was one other bit of me that was very practical that realized that the only money to be made if you were to stay in England — and I never thought of going anywhere else — was to get into commercials , and I waited a long time until a script came along that I thought was genuinely funny . |
| 28 | " Say , that was so dumb that stunt you pulled . |
| 29 | Wallace 's line existed because there was one particular strait , between the islands of Bali and Lombok , that was so deep that it could never have been exposed as dry land in recent geological times . |
| 30 | of the sub committee went down to hear actual objectors to er transport opposable , that was so successful that this paper now recommends that as a general principle , but most of the |