Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [that] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Therein is part of the magic of cinema : to implant a visual image so strong that somewhere in the psyche the cinematic illusion becomes as real or as powerful as any actual experience .
2 Some can be so strong that regardless of the consequences they compel action .
3 If your hunger of gold bee so insatiable that onely for the desire you have thereto , you disquiet so many nations , …
4 She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why .
5 ‘ The Russian Empire ’ , wrote Catherine II in 1764 , ‘ is so large that apart from the Autocratic Sovereign every other form of government is harmful to it , because all others are slower in their execution and contain a great multitude of various horrors , which lead to the disintegration of power and strength more than that of one Sovereign , who possesses all the means for the eradication of all harm and looks on the general good as his own . ’
6 The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed .
7 We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers .
8 The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent .
9 In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment .
10 Or was it just possible that right to the end he had believed that she would find out , and come to him ?
11 It was not surprising that even within the upper reaches of the Party discontent began to come into the open , or at least to be expressed clearly behind closed doors at meetings of the Central Committee or Council of Ministers .
12 In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are .
13 It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control .
14 On the work front , he took a step nearer to what he thought would be a move towards transferring his energies to the other side of the camera and his next work was so outlandishly eccentric that perhaps in the year 1998 it will be rediscovered and offered as a superb example of long forgotten pop art of thirty years earlier .
15 No , not really I think erm , er first of all I think very important that especially with the Baltic share the public the should not give the commission to the Baltic public until , unless the Republic itself guaranteed the right of the Russian and minority and the Polish minority and the and the Republic .
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