Example sentences of "[adj] that it [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Malinowski made no secret of his earthy , materialist view of man 's motives it is odd that it has taken modern exponents of transactional analysis and game theory so long to recognize his pioneering achievements in this field . |
| 2 | The following weekend , the French referendum on Sept. 20 on ratification of the Maastricht Treaty produced a majority in favour , but so narrow that it failed to dispel growing doubts about the integration process . |
| 3 | The shift is so striking that it has led one commentator ( Young 1984 : 22 ) to talk of an explosion of ‘ civic assertiveness ’ . |
| 4 | The speed of change was such that it had become difficult to keep up with developments of which perhaps ‘ we have not yet seen the end ’ . |
| 5 | His argument begins with a rejection of ‘ universalism ’ and a claim that different varieties of language can be associated with different levels of such general qualities as ‘ objectivity ’ : ‘ there are gross differences among languages , such that it does seem reasonable to say of some that they allow their users to approximate to neutral , objective description ’ . |
| 6 | The connections were , of course , the Red Army : after 18 months of disastrous and brutal reforms , carried out in an overly reckless spirit because the PDPA leaders believed the Russians would always bale them out , Moscow decided in late 1979 that it had had enough . |
| 7 | I hit my pillow so hard that it has looked reproachful ever since . ) |
| 8 | It had grown so wild and unruly that it threatened to smother all the flowers . |
| 9 | This problem is so great that it has become fashionable to call for a new kind of organization to put in place of managerial hierarchy , an organization that will better meet the requirements of what is variously called the Information Age , the Services Age or the Post-lndustrial Age . |
| 10 | While officially rejecting the deadlines as an ultimatum and conceding only that it would negotiate over the vexed issue of border controls , Slovenia announced on July 5 that it had demobilized 10,000 members of its defence forces . |
| 11 | Unfortunately it is crucial to know which species of snake is involved because snake poisons are so complex that it has proved impossible to develop a ‘ multi-venin' that will treat all forms of snakebite . |
| 12 | The government announced on June 4 that it had freed all remaining former South Vietnamese officials held in re-education camps , thereby fulfilling a key condition for the normalization of relations with the USA . |
| 13 | How could she tell this impossible Dane that for some wild , unaccountable moment the previous evening , when his mouth had joined with hers , she 'd imagined they shared a mutual attraction so powerful that it had overridden any man-made measurement of time or propriety ? |
| 14 | Apparently it is a big cut , but not so deep that it has done any irrevocable damage , at least that 's the impression I got . |
| 15 | The Council is obviously terribly happy that it 's got this new service running from nine a.m . |
| 16 | Without the original bill we can not be certain of the government 's objectives ; but on balance it seems unlikely that it wished to replace statutory legislation by proclamation . |
| 17 | Edi Sudrajat , announced on Feb. 27 that it had punished six senior army officers for their role in the events . |
| 18 | The Colombian government announced on June 1 that it had granted diplomatic asylum to the former President ( in 1985-1990 ) , Alan García Pérez , the secretary-general of Peru 's American Popular Revolutionary Alliance ( APRA ) . |
| 19 | Quarrelling among siblings is so common that it has become accepted as ‘ normal ’ . |
| 20 | It may be possible to delete this provision if the Purchaser can be satisfied that it has had all the Business 's contracts disclosed to it one way or another . |
| 21 | That is a very considerable prize but it has been painful to achieve and I am unsurprised that it has caused some disruption . |