Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sooner or later , the knee will have to make a move , but now it is immobilised by the two flies , the lower of which is so still that it seems dead . |
| 2 | The fly on top is on the contrary quite agitated , jerking tremendously , then convulsively , putting out its left foreleg to whip , or maybe to stroke some sort of reaction out of the fly beneath , which , however , remains so still that it seems dead . |
| 3 | A conservative estimate is that , in the absence of natural selection , DNA replicates so accurately that it takes five million replication generations to miscopy I per cent of the characters . |
| 4 | The broadcaster who gave a complicated radio talk on a technical subject was wasting his time , for no one listened to him — a point which came over in interviews so often that it became indisputable . |
| 5 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |
| 6 | The first time was during the 1930s , when the court first read the commerce clause of the constitution so narrowly that it gutted much New Deal legislation , and then suddenly reversed itself . |
| 7 | It happened so long ago that it seems incredible that it is still affecting her . |
| 8 | Its population was expanding so fast that it seemed impossible that food production could keep pace with it . |
| 9 | Standing up to straighten his back , he would take as many as half a dozen buds , popping them all into his mouth , then down he 'd go , snick , snick , bud in , and on to the next — he went so fast that it took two assistants following behind and tying in to keep up with him ! |
| 10 | Correctly named Limnanthes douglasii , the seed is readily available and , when conditions suit , it seeds itself so readily that it becomes self-perpetuating and can even become invasive . |
| 11 | The responsibility had lain so heavily that it took some time to readjust . |
| 12 | In one of the central episodes in the novel , Humberto not only cuckolds his employer , but fathers on his wife the heir whom the oligarch himself has never been able to engender , and it is only subsequently that it becomes clear that what has been narrated as a factual account of events is , in reality , no more than a fantasy in which he simultaneously avenges his social humiliation and effects the incorporation of the humble Peñaloza line into the oligarchy . |
| 13 | They were both still and quiet , looking at a toad in the rough grass on the bank ; its body was swollen , its legs stiff and straight so that it stood high on its toes , looking like a little table . |
| 14 | The work itself has maintained an almost subterranean existence in footnotes and references in many other works , yet it was not until comparatively recently that it became accessible to the non-specialist reader . |
| 15 | Her iron hand was even harder on the pastry , and affected its colour as well so that it looked dark and oppressed . |
| 16 | If it is difficult to defend where the line is drawn , it may be that the line is drawn in the wrong place and that it should be drawn instead so that it includes all those who were infected because of NHS treatment — not just some . |