Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alfred was suddenly extremely grateful that none of his colleagues knew of Beatrice Throgmorton 's place in his life . |
| 2 | Yes but the trouble about it is that the English are so insular that lots of them do n't , do n't realize it or wo n't believe it . |
| 3 | It was only natural that anyone with a garage and mechanical knowhow would be tempted during the heady days of the Flea ‘ craze ’ to ‘ have a go ’ . |
| 4 | This is what we 've achieved by extreme centralization and extreme specialization — a society so complex that everyone in it is winning the race . |
| 5 | It is less sure that anyone in 1975 could have foreseen the dramatic increase in the demand for places in the ten years to follow . |
| 6 | Are the foundations of faith so shaky that nothing of any weight can be built on them ? |
| 7 | How she was so beautiful that everyone in Ireland loved her . |
| 8 | The work being too demanding and impossible for them to cope with or so undemanding that they under achieve becoming bored or disaffected . |
| 9 | Each also had a wood stove , and a bathroom so small that someone of Arnold Schwarzenegger proportions would have been afraid to enter it , for fear of never getting back out . |
| 10 | But television was so arrogant that none of them even knew that I had a previous reputation . |
| 11 | The pace is slow , so slow that lots of things are unfinished . |
| 12 | These machines are so rare that one like Ingrid 's , new , could cost £80,000 , and she might have had to wait four years for delivery . |
| 13 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 14 | It is perhaps significant that none of the last four Lord Chief Justices — Lords Goddard , Parker , Widgery and Lane — had been law officers . |
| 15 | WITH ALL THIS BRAVADO it 's rather ironic that none of the performers would tell me their real names . |
| 16 | It is just conceivable that something like this might have happened had there been a Communist government in France . |
| 17 | Well , I know pigs might fly , but hope springs eternal and Bob was eternally hopeful that something like this might happen . |
| 18 | The experience made me deeply grateful that nothing of the same kind , at least with current technology , can be deduced from prose . |
| 19 | But on the contrary , this world of ‘ it was rumoured ’ and ‘ that may well have been so ’ followed at once by ‘ it is more likely that nothing of the sort happened ’ — again in the opening paragraphs — is as exhilarating as the challenge of life 's opacities to a healthy curiosity . |
| 20 | The editor , a nervous man always conscious that none of his immediate predecessors had lasted more than two years in the job , held his readers ' adoration of royalty as an article of faith . |
| 21 | A trial date had finally been set for 17 June 1991 , but given the obvious flimsiness of the case , he was still concerned that somebody within the DEA might be tempted into direct action . |
| 22 | I think it genuinely irresponsible that someone with my theatrical track-record has written a play about this internationally known theatrical figure yet it has only been seen by a few people . ’ |
| 23 | As a result , it is hardly surprising that everything from Patches to the Daily Telegraph employs at least one rock correspondent , from a teenage school-leaver in doorstep Nikes and a back-to-front baseball cap to some affable dilettante with a plum in his mouth and old school tie . |
| 24 | In view of the points above , it is hardly surprising that none of these was rated as more than moderately effective , and only the advisory staff were rated as significantly better than ineffective . |
| 25 | It was also clear that something about the young man made him intensely uncomfortable . |
| 26 | [ more calmly ] I am now convinced that nothing but religious considerations and a resolution to watch over the very first appearances of evil can be of sufficient weight to keep steady to his good purpose a vain young man . |
| 27 | MI5 agreed to give what help was necessary so it is fairly obvious that none of the security services took Eden 's directive seriously . |
| 28 | Good heavens , is it really likely that someone like you could catch a man rich enough to own a house like this ? |
| 29 | So the problem is , if your child wants to go , if one of our children wanted to go at midnight , I 'm fairly sure that everybody in this Council Chamber would have quite a reasonable way of er of retaining that child in the home but of course we 've all heard the stories of what happens when the unruly children in the children 's homes want to go out at midnight and I do think we we have a problem because with the report and the new legislation , we 're in the situation where there 's plenty of advice for us as to what to do , what not to do should I say , we ca n't we ca n't use pindown , you ca n't shut them in a room , you ca n't physically restrain them , so how does one of the workers in the home stop them from going out ? |
| 30 | 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 . |