Example sentences of "[noun] that have been so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A perfect oval face , thick , glossy hair and the same bright sparkle in the wide brown eyes that had been so evident in the photograph at Seaview . |
| 2 | It is the one-sidedness of privatisation of the monopoly public utilities that has been so apparent since the process started with British Telecom in 1985 that so deeply offends ordinary people throughout the country . |
| 3 | That 52–17 victory for Dallas will be sticking in the collective craws of a Buffalo side that has been so close , but never close enough . |
| 4 | If there was to be a common external policy , economic and strategic , which appeared more and more desirable , as between the parliamentarily self-governing populations around the world that were deemed all to be parts of one empire , the logical but crazy conclusion must be to defy the impracticability that had been so clear in the eighteenth century and to envisage an imperial parliament . |
| 5 | It was n't just the flight to New York , the tedium of the long-drawn-out customs and transport formalities , and the helicopter trip between JFK airport and Manhattan that had been so tiring . |
| 6 | It was not a friendship of the kind that had been so frequent in Anselm 's early life . |
| 7 | All oriental rug designs can be broadly divided into those which employ naturalistic representations of living forms and those which employ either totally geometric forms , or naturalistic forms that have been so abstracted that their origins are no longer recognizable . |
| 8 | All she could see was Felipe 's face , his dark eyes , the laughter that had been so ready this morning . |
| 9 | Oh , no , not that , she would n't be able to suffer that , not after the past few days that had been so ecstatic . |
| 10 | Too many different players were winning odd caps and the continuity that had been so important under Ron Greenwood seemed to be disappearing . |
| 11 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 12 | What had she seen in him the other day that had been so disturbing ? |
| 13 | There may be more to this than meets the eye ( if you 'll excuse the pun ) as just once in a while I have taken zander during the daytime in water that has been so clear that I would have rated my chances as zero . |
| 14 | CCG was awarded the £1 million contract for North Yorkshire schools last January , and since then we have implemented the healthy eating policy that has been so successful in other school contracts . |
| 15 | Gone were the colourful historical scenes that had been so much in favour with the Hung Mao . |
| 16 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 17 | David Giles gained a deserved reputation among Palace fans after playing three superb games for Swansea City against us in the FA Cup 3rd round in January 1980 but , having joined us eighteen months later , he lacked the sparkle that had been so evident then . |