Example sentences of "this [be] [adv] [adj] that " in BNC.
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1 | Part of the three-year letter of intent went so far as to say — this is quite astonishing that for an initial period , which as far as I can recollect was never defined , British Rail should subsidise bus services because buses were being substituted for trains . |
2 | This is very important that we |
3 | This is so small that we just do n't notice it ; we see only one time and three space dimensions , in which space-time is fairly flat . |
4 | This is so stupid that you might wonder why the employers did not plump for the other alternative — until you come to look at it ! |
5 | The shock of all of this is so great that she might well lose her health . |
6 | This is so abrasive that it 'll damn near cut you in two . |
7 | This is so abrasive that it 'll damn near cut you in two . |
8 | This is so serious that for world championship flying , many gliders are now fitted with a means of cleaning off the leading edges of the wings in flight . |
9 | This is so evident that it does not require illustration . |
10 | This is so sensitive that in a noisy office it can pick up an unamplified solid electric guitar from about 12 inches and show the exact pitch on the strobe . |
11 | Indeed this is so clear that I sometimes wonder why so much effort usually goes into attempting to prove it . |
12 | In some cases , incidentally , this is so precise that embryologists can give a name to each cell , and a given cell in one individual organism can be said to have an exact counterpart in another organism . |
13 | This is so obvious that at first sight it might seem superfluous to state it . |
14 | Erm , parent involvement , there is no mention in this report about parent involvement , and I think this is absolutely essential that the , it 's often the families who are poor parenting , because they 've been poor parent people , and you have succession , and we 've gone somewhere along the line , we 've got to go down that road . |
15 | I mean , it 's , it 's , I really do feel on these tendency to come on all the reports , I think we want , I think we want to hear that jobs and wages will undoubtedly go up , it 's erm this is absolutely inevitable that wages will go up and rise in the situation . |
16 | This was so successful that the army stopped cycling in some districts . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . ’ |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | By now this was so unusual that Karen did n't even realize I 'd come until I told her . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | this was bloody good that was ! |