Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] that [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 2 | Maybe so , but there is good and bad , effective and ineffective propaganda , and , as Nizan himself was acutely aware , the technical problems associated with injecting ideology and politics into literature were so enormous that only the most adroit , the most cunning of revolutionary writers would be successful in creating an effective balance between ideological effect and aesthetic technique . |
| 3 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 4 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 5 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |
| 6 | The men who led the Cracow revolutionary movement ( the Polish insurrection of 1830 ) were deeply convinced that only a democratic Poland could be independent , and a democratic Poland was impossible without the abolition of feudal rights , without the agrarian movement which would transform the tied peasants into free proprietors . |
| 7 | The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger . |
| 8 | And everything about her , her long nightdress and the mist she was held in , was so golden-red that even the dark gold skin of her lovely face had a reddish tinge to it . |
| 9 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 10 | The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone . |
| 11 | His good humour was so infectious that even the fräulein managed a wan smile . |
| 12 | Ronni was suddenly grateful that just a moment ago she 'd already had this conversation . |
| 13 | I was deeply disappointed that neither the hon. Member for Tooting , in a 40-minute speech , nor the hon. Member for Hammersmith , except in an intervention , found it possible to acknowledge the contribution made by housing associations . |
| 14 | It was also apparent that both the SM2 and visceral-specific MHC isoforms were poorly represented in the rabbit uterus cDNA library , probably reflecting the fact that the ratio of SM1:SM2 in rabbit uterus is approximately 80:20 . |
| 15 | Well like , for example , we have excellent educational psychologists in Oxfordshire and erm we have advisers for children with special needs in Oxfordshire , and they are extremely useful people in helping out those many children who are not like the average run of children and have specific and particular problems , and I was very fearful that eventually an opted out school might turn its noses up at such children , and I think they needed protection , so that 's one example . |