Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that it [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christians see the power of God 's love as so strong that it overcomes sin and death . |
| 2 | Johanna was so popular that it took police a day to talk to all her friends after she was reported missing . |
| 3 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 4 | It 's still a hot air story , and we give most hot air stories — some dignitary with no power to do anything to change the situation has ‘ called for ’ , ‘ demanded ’ , ‘ warned ’ or whatever — but the issue is so serious that it deserves notice : we have frequently highlighted the manner in which US — and European — anti-dumping measures that supposedly benefit a tiny minority are to the detriment of the vast majority , and there is now a groundswell of opinion at the US Department of Commerce that the International Trade Commission 's brief in considering charges of dumping should extend to a review of the impact of duties on consumers ; the current issue is the anti-dumping duties likely to be made permanent today on memory chip imports from South Korea , which are sought by Micron Technology Inc but opposed by both all memory chip users and by the US chip capital equipment manufacturers that sell to the South Koreans . |
| 5 | In the event , however , it was a glossy book from the Town Planning Ministry in 1986 that really took the message to the public — and that message was so remarkable that it deserves examination in some detail . |
| 6 | Funnily enough , we had just as much peril when the thaw came , because it was so rapid that it caused flooding . |
| 7 | I have ridden in the hon. Gentleman 's car , which is so large that it enters Wandsworth as soon as it enters the boundary of Lambeth . |
| 8 | The published statistics are therefore retained for this purpose , but , as one company commented , their use is , however , so infrequent that it has difficulty in locating the relevant data when they are needed ! |
| 9 | The eyes especially were beautiful ; very large , their ovals faintly twisted , a cool doe 's eyes , almond eyes , giving a natural mystery to a face otherwise so regular that it risked perfection . |
| 10 | The speed of her car was still so great that it took Chesarynth a while to realize the signs were n't complete . |
| 11 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 12 | He says that the pain is so great that it brings tears to his eyes , makes him grumpy , and means he 's sometimes confined to his armchair for days on end . |
| 13 | Huy struck a flint and the lamp spread a tight circle of yellow light , so deep that it drew objects into it . |
| 14 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 15 | Includes the classic mod ‘ floater ’ ‘ I 'm So Thankful ’ , a record so cool that it makes Inspector Morse look like The Bill . |
| 16 | His expression was so tender that it shocked Lee . |
| 17 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 18 | Scandinavia is so expensive that it makes Switzerland feel like Andorra , and so dark in mid winter that many of the slopes are floodlit to avoid disappointment . |
| 19 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 20 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 21 | The noise was so constant and so intense that it fabricated silence . |
| 22 | The smoke this produced was so dense that it closed airports and smothered half the country . |
| 23 | The swing was so wild that it unbalanced Sharpe , but it also terrified the second Dragoon who swerved frantically away from the blade 's hissing reach . |
| 24 | Research has shown that we are normally not conscious that it takes place , but that we are uncomfortable if it is missing when we would expect it or present on inappropriate occasions — for example in a greeting from a complete stranger . |