Example sentences of "[adj] [that] it [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This , it is proposed , should be reformulated so as to replace the expression ‘ merchantable quality ’ with ‘ acceptable quality ’ and to make it clear that it covers the fitness of the goods for all their common purposes , their safety , durability , freedom from minor defects and appearance and finish . |
| 2 | The new Commonwealth was at least a genuinely voluntary union , and yet it was far from clear that it provided the answer to nationality differences that had for so long eluded the Gorbachev leadership . |
| 3 | The insurance company had claimed that the system for calculating punitive awards — to punish wrongdoers and deter future misconduct — was so irrational that it violated the company 's constitutional right to be treated fairly . |
| 4 | She had chased it out of the house in February when one of her grandchildren was visiting ; and it is possible that it spent the night in the house during the week of the March sighting , as there was a very strong smell in the dining room the following morning . |
| 5 | In the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 6 | Yes but why did Hitachi Data Systems Ltd choose the name Osiris for its new mainframe Unix combination ( see front ) : in the clearest indication possible that it regards the MVS mainframe as doomed , it has produced a colourful flyer that explains that Osiris was an ancient Egyptian king who after painful adventures became a god , and chose to act as an intermediary between the living and the dead , looking after the souls of the departed and giving the living the hope of eternal happiness in the other world ; ‘ In providing a quality solution which integrates open systems with existing System 370 and 390 environments , ’ the company says , ‘ HDS provides the best of both worlds ’ ( the living and the dead , that is ) . |
| 7 | if you remember the question that the founding fathers faced was how do you create a government which is strong enough to endure and to defend the nation and defend the country yet a government which is not so strong that it erodes the rights of individuals within it , this is the , the essence of the , the problem of government as , as the founding fathers saw it . |
| 8 | On one side is the shattering power of time : This feeling of inevitability becomes so strong that it makes the poem comment on itself in surprised awareness — ‘ Oh fearful meditation ! ’ — and pushes on to an apparently unanswerable climax : ‘ Or what strong hand can hold his swift foot back ? / Or who his spoil of beauty can forbid ? ’ |
| 9 | In his State of the Union address , delivered to the US Congress on Jan. 31 , President George Bush stated that " the events of the year just ended , the revolution of 1989 , have been a chain reaction — change so striking that it marks the beginning of a new era in the world 's affairs " . |
| 10 | They had a report in nineteen seventy six called Nestle in developing countries where they said , The volume of our purchases of cocoa and coffee is so vast that it influences the market of those commodities . |
| 11 | In 1938 I was offered a programme with full rehearsal and that I accepted , though when it came to the time I asked for separate section rehearsals — first strings , then winds — which met with some opposition , particularly as the orchestra was convinced that it knew the music already . |
| 12 | The assault is so unexpected and apparently unjustified that it leaves the owner not only bleeding but also deeply perplexed . |
| 13 | Her legs were of wood , and her nose was so large that it touched the ceiling . |
| 14 | This large display ( right ) in a cool , fresh , green and white colour scheme , provides a central focal point for the table , but it is not so large that it obscures the guests ' view . |
| 15 | However in industries like shipbuilding , oil refining or chemicals , production is so capital intensive that it restricts the possibility of transferring the burden of adjustment to small firms . |
| 16 | It seems likely that it involved the utilisation of the X-rays emitted by the fission bomb trigger to propagate the explosion throughout the charge of thermonuclear fuel ; travelling at the speed of light they could initiate the fusion reaction in all parts of the charge in a time much less than could be achieved by shock waves ( travelling at perhaps 104m/s ) , so that a substantial degree of reaction Could occur before the material was dispersed by the explosion ( New Scientist , 2 September , 1982 , p641 ) . |
| 17 | Whatever one thinks of this judgment , it is not immediately obvious that it entails the rejection of the more specific claim that the state is the tool of the ruling class ; for the latter makes no explicit mention of a class 's consciousness of its interests , real or otherwise . |
| 18 | A distorted lack-of-pulse is unlikely to be so pulse-like that it confuses the equipment . |
| 19 | A majority in the House of Commons fancied that it possessed the training in theology , the experience of ways of worship , and the sensitivity to religious feelings , to tell a Church how it ought to say its prayers . |
| 20 | Was it your own suggestion to make the whole thing so tedious that it sent the nation to sleep until after the election ? |
| 21 | In Bohemia under Joseph II opposition to the burial of Protestants in cemeteries hitherto reserved for Catholics was so great that it required the presence of a considerable force of cavalry to ensure that one such burial took place ; while the disastrous flooding of 1785 , when the Danube broke its banks , was widely regarded as a divine punishment for the emperor 's impious attacks on the Church . |
| 22 | I mean I 've got my own thoughts , I have to be careful here that you know I 've got to try and pull together what you think because at the end of the day it 's it 's very important that it reflects the way we work in school , not the way I perceive I we work in in school because you 're the people at the chalk first . |
| 23 | So important that it merited the expenditure of much care and effort — if you are propounding the importance of quality , then you have to do it using a quality method ! |
| 24 | The Pisa group is so superb that it overshadows the rest of the work in this district . |
| 25 | ‘ The crying was so loud and so wonderful that it made the people astounded unless they had heard it before ’ ; she ‘ made wondrous faces and expressions ’ too . |
| 26 | ‘ Is n't it also unacceptable that it took the management of British Nuclear Fuels longer than one might expect to make this incident public , especially bearing in mind that Dr Lewis Moonie [ a Labour front-bencher ] and I actually visited this site on Thursday and Friday of last week and were not informed that these excessive discharges had taken place ? ’ |
| 27 | There was even a small river tumbling over the edge in a waterfall so wind-whipped that it reached the ground as rain . |
| 28 | Inside , the room was bathed in a chic and sickly light , so sickly and so chic that it gave the impression of being a chartreuse light ( chartreuse is this year 's chic colour ; its sickliness needs no introduction from me ) although it was in fact pink . |
| 29 | In the summer of 1873 there was an unseasonal heatwave in the valley — so intense that it shrivelled the grapes in every vineyard . |