Example sentences of "[adj] that it [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be .
2 Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours .
3 The bid-ask spread was so large that it converted significant profits into significant losses .
4 It has leg-like fins with fleshy bases like the coelacanth ; it seems very likely that it had air-breathing pouches from its gut like a lungfish .
5 June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times .
6 Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text .
7 The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up .
8 The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy .
9 This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness .
10 Pepe 's Bar was situated on the sand , with rough wooden flooring that Shelley used to think could n't take much more of the stamping that it got each Saturday during the flamenco dancing .
11 Since the Great War , 1914–18 , it has been practiced by wage-earners , suffering from long periods of unemployment and underemployment , so drastic that it seemed abject folly to produce children who could neither be adequately nourished nor sufficiently educated to secure a satisfactory livelihood .
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