Example sentences of "and [adj] [that] [pers pn] is " in BNC.

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1 If he is afraid of compromising himself in the eyes of Messrs Goupil and Co by keeping in touch with me , is his position with those gentlemen so shaky and unstable that he is obliged to be so careful ? ’
2 If Pollard 's architecture is so disposable and flippant that it is odd to call him a ‘ patron ’ , Palumbo 's patronage is so single-minded that he can hardly be called a developer .
3 The opportunities opened up by the technical innovations are so large and exciting that it is hard to grasp the full extent of the change .
4 Or will our message be so weak and insipid that it is not worth having .
5 Businesses have become so complex and diverse that it is not possible to achieve complete uniformity of accounting bases .
6 If they do more adversely affect women , our track record in using the legal process that we have , faulty and flawed that it is , might mean that we are in some way able to address the problem .
7 Because she enters into all that Boaz has and all that he is .
8 We do not yet know much about this but the brain is so powerful and complex that it is very unlikely that any of the analyses proposed so far bear much resemblance to this reality ; they are too heavily influenced by the theoretician 's preoccupation with economy , elegance and simplicity .
9 Guardian readers are sufficiently interesting and distinctive that it is worth tolerating the statistical uncertainties caused by our small sample and the Guardian 's small readership .
10 It is a happiness so mild and cool that it is like a kind of saintliness after passion : yet it is not satiety … for if she has any unhealth , it is from me ; and that more of her lips than in her heart . ’
11 For many groups this is an idea so novel and daunting that it is unlikely to happen spontaneously .
12 The proof of this statement is so simple and elegant that it is the one piece of mathematics I have permitted myself in this book .
13 Another practical problem is that ‘ global ’ ( organisation-wide ) data analysis may be so costly and time-consuming that it is often preferable to carry out entity analysis at a ‘ local ’ level , such as the marketing area .
14 Those thoughts in themselves are sufficient to turn the occasion from a loving one into some sort of physical test — and of course the same thing happens again ; the man feels so tense and anxious that he is simply not able to perform sexually .
15 Whilst welcoming the recommendation that the defence has an enforceable right of access to forensic material held by the prosecution , the Law Society is concerned and surprised that it is not proposed that this will extend to unused material generally .
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