Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waddell is most emphatic that the old man was neither blindfolded nor gagged . |
| 2 | Says Renate Olins , director of the London Marriage Guidance Council , ‘ It 's entirely understandable that the innocent party is wracked with feelings of such vehemence and passion that she may not know what to do with them . ’ |
| 3 | I am glad that the hon. Gentleman and I agree that there should be a discount for single people — I am only sorry that the Labour party continues to insist that we should return to a rating system in which single people would have to pay through the nose , as they did before . |
| 4 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 5 | The increased order is so strong that no neuro-electric message can fight it — a special EM field has to be applied . |
| 6 | There are a number of modelling programs suitable for use on microcomputers at a price which is so low that a complete system often costs less than the terminals used merely to communicate with larger computers . |
| 7 | Already losses in fibre are so low that a light signal can travel well over 16 km before it halves in intensity ( a 3 dB loss ) . |
| 8 | Life expectancy is so low that the average life span of men just before we got here ( in the last quarter of the seventeenth century ) was 29.6 years . |
| 9 | The lintel is so low that the only man who can enter is the man who is down on his knees . |
| 10 | However , on rare occasions — perhaps twice before in recorded history — a change occurs so profound and so far-reaching that the entire orientation of society is altered completely in a relatively short period . |
| 11 | Business men find it especially odd that the Labour party intends to introduce a minimum wage with one hand while with the other hand it would remove our tax cuts for the lowest paid . |
| 12 | It is extremely odd that the Labour party should propose that women should be barred from jobs because of their husband 's position in public life . |
| 13 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 14 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 15 | The shortage of housing is so acute that the vast Cairene cemeteries , known as the City of the Dead , host a population of squatters thought to number over a million . |
| 16 | Ramsey said that the name of Billy Graham was linked with fundamentalism ; and that fundamentalism was the error of regarding the Bible as so divine that the human element disappeared . |
| 17 | It is found that the former can give rise to convection even when the latter is sufficiently strong that the net effect of the two is a decrease ; i.e. lighter fluid overlies heavier . |
| 18 | Old galvanised iron rising main and cold feed pipes can usually be removed with Stillsons ; a metal overflow pipe may be so rusted that the only answer is to cut it off . |
| 19 | it is extremely doubtful that the overall system … can ever be made to work without the kind of total ideological commitment and radical transformation which underlie its operation in socialist Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | While it is clear enough that by 1519 the Household system badly needed reform , it is less clear that the Edwardian system existed only on paper . |
| 21 | It is brutally clear that the private sector has already invested in those places and activities in DRAs where profitable returns on capital may be obtained . |
| 22 | In talking of groups it soon became abundantly clear that the young lady to whom the remarks were addressed was mystified . |
| 23 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 24 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 25 | It is n't so much that the ultimate disappearance of the USM itself is particularly jeopardising the potential market for smaller companies . |
| 26 | Indeed , it is not so much that the invading spirit is definitively exorcized from its human host , as that the host learns to live with her familiar who may make his presence felt whenever his mistress is in difficulties . |
| 27 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 28 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 29 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 30 | I have declined to act as external examiner to candidates whose subject or thesis title seemed to be so dubious that a successful treatment of it could only be done by a candidate of exceptional brilliance ; in such cases it is likely that the candidate has had inadequate or misguided supervision . |