Example sentences of "[coord] [adj] that it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 2 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 3 | Whereas the house was darkly masculine in its Victorian confidence , Miss Hatherby 's music room was so light and feminine that it seemed quite out of place in the general heaviness and gloom . |
| 4 | Caroline Little for family reasons had to give up many of her recreational classes , but started a class for stroke victims which has provided so beneficial and popular that it has now been recognised in an official capacity . |
| 5 | In the control samples no one said the strain had lightened , five that it had remained the same , and six that it had worsened . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In fact , the response was so uniform and repetitious that it started to irritate him before long . |
| 8 | As he rushes hither and thither , his note-books become crammed with an amazing collection of miscellaneous information which is so diverse and uneven that it gives colour to and so in a way explains Robert Lowie 's famous definition of culture as a ‘ thing of shreds and patches ’ . |
| 9 | Empiricism , as a theory of how we acquire concepts , requires there to be something which is both a ‘ state of consciousness ’ and such that it does not have logical conditions , that is , is unlike a would-be belief . |
| 10 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 11 | The texture of Les Majeurs is so light and natural that it gives a sensation of comfort and a sensational finish . |
| 12 | She treasured it , feeling that Paris , and all that it meant , was perhaps not quite over … |
| 13 | The herbicide Agent Orange and all that it represents , from carpet bombing of rainforests to bulldozing them down and removing their topsoil , managed to demolish a fifth of Vietnam 's tree cover and to replace it , in great stretches , with a moonscape of bomb craters . |
| 14 | She told us that her sister had lost her home and all that it contained in the December tragedy , and was still in hospital . |
| 15 | One planning officer commented that ‘ probably no planning circular and all that it implies has ever been so popular with the public . |
| 16 | She had married not just the man , she had married his job , and all that it involved . |
| 17 | Milner in 1907 was writing : ‘ there can be no adequate prosperity for the forty or fifty million people in these islands without the Empire and all that it provides ’ . |
| 18 | But acting and all that it means is very much a doing thing , so the emphasis is always on practical work . |
| 19 | Far more significant and revelatory was the arrival of the wireless , in the sense that it meant for the first time the voice of the outside world and all that it encompassed — good and bad — was heard throughout this enclosed community . |
| 20 | And all that it contains |
| 21 | I am still 100 per cent behind Credit Management and all that it stands for . |
| 22 | At breakfast together Fisher exploded and attacked the Church Union and all that it stood for and said that they had done great harm and ought to apologize . |
| 23 | When it was certain that the City of the Horizon would collapse , and all that it stood for , I wrote to him , to try to get him to save himself . |
| 24 | The floor was even harder and colder that it had been before . |
| 25 | It had grown so wild and unruly that it threatened to smother all the flowers . |
| 26 | I chested my way through and stood panting and blinking in a glass-walled theatre of spacious light , the air so dustless and oceanic that it showed you only the dirt in your human eyes . |
| 27 | The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words . |
| 28 | That gesture was so unexpected and beautiful that it remained in Agnes 's memory like the imprint of a lightning bolt ; it invited her into the depths of space and time and awakened in the sixteen-year-old girl a vague and immense longing . |
| 29 | At last , with a little shaking of his arm , and thrice his head waving up and down , he raises a sigh so piteous and profound that it does seem to shatter all his bulk and end his being . |
| 30 | The humble toad , so slow and cumbersome that it looks like easy pickings for any predatory mammal or bird , has survived for millions of years because it has managed to evolve a particularly virulent poison called bufotalin . |