Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [subord] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are highly social , congregating in groups as large as 500 , and the bonding between members of the herd is so strong that if a pilot or lead whale beaches itself , the rest of the herd will often follow , creating a mass stranding . |
| 2 | It is perhaps ironical that while the decision by Britain to apply for EEC membership implied a tacit acceptance of the supranational principle inherent in the Treaty of Rome , the Gaullist design for Europe , which de Gaulle called the ‘ Europe des Patries ’ , was very similar to the kind of traditional scheme so popular in the past with British politicians — an alliance sustained primarily by frequent conversations between national governments , in which national sovereignty would not be compromised . |
| 3 | It is abundantly clear that when the time came to construct defences around many of these sites , the reason was not always primarily to protect the community . |
| 4 | At the age of 9 , he was sent to the London Institution where he excelled himself so much that when the school 's Margate branch was opened in 1875 , the headmaster , Dr. Elliott , appointed him one of the first pupil-teachers , promoting him three years later to a junior teachership . |
| 5 | The problems are in the roof structure of the sheltered housing in Meadow Court , Frodsham , and are so serious that if the building were subjected to stress it is feared the roof could collapse . |
| 6 | But conditions in the mines are so appalling that if the Furus were not under the influence of the drug they would undoubtedly refuse outright to go below ground . ’ |
| 7 | Another theory could be that their eyesight is so exceptional that when the water is clear they can fill their stomachs in a very short time and are therefore , for most of the time , not hungry and ignore anglers baits under these conditions . |
| 8 | Another , the scaffold-web spider , rigs a whole series of sticky threads from the branches of a bush down to the ground and hauls each one so tight that if an insect , either walking on the ground or flying a little way above it blunders into one of them , the thread breaks and the victim , stuck to it with glue , is hoisted into the air . |
| 9 | The difficulty of winning a championship , the strain and gamble it involves , are so great that if a driver does not carry through to the following year sufficient momentum and he does not have the same advantage — of car , team , etc. — that he had the previous year , the results are often disappointing . |
| 10 | The length of the transition curve depends upon the total change of radius , the velocity of the engine and the permitted superelevation , bearing in mind that the cant must not be so great that if an engine is halted it will topple over . |
| 11 | Since all babies inherit their mother 's antibodies , it is only logical that if a mother has positive antibodies to HIV , then her baby will be born with them too . |
| 12 | It is extremely unlikely that if the House of Lords did not exist it would be invented in its present form . |
| 13 | Eventually , the gas will be so hot that when the hydrogen atoms collide they no longer bounce off each other , but instead coalesce to form helium . |
| 14 | Amusingly , the car is so big that when the team was doing the full-size tape and paint drawings , the normal rolls were not long enough . |
| 15 | And their arousal is so intense that if the owl finally departs they will still go on mobbing for a long while afterwards , as though they can not calm down to a normal level of activity until some considerable time has passed . |
| 16 | If you then remember that the agency 's creative people are — at least in theory — especially good at getting into other people 's minds through a combination of words and pictures , it becomes a little clearer that while an advertising strategy may be a statement of intent about the communication of an idea to a target group , the interpretation of that strategy by the creative group may contain none of the words of the strategy ( except things like ‘ the ’ and ‘ and ’ ) . |
| 17 | It is usually noticeable that when a masochist has for years felt hard done by , often over-controlled by their partner , and then for some reason the tables are turned , he or she metes out punishment as if this has to go on for the same length of time that the masochist 's suffering was endured . |
| 18 | The decision based on a number of current offspring , larger numbers can be greater benefited with and therefore it 's more likely that if the parent had a lot of er offspring then he would continue with the investment and erm the conclusion from now is that males have a greater reproductive success , therefore they are more likely to desert because they can erm and erm this and erm the basic argument of this is one parent can get away with investing less share of erm resources they 're likely to spend more er then they 're to do it , so in other words erm if , if one of the , of the two is being to get away with having the other they can go out to er pursue their own and therefore erm each partner force the other to invest more . |
| 19 | It was always apparent that as the AOR was completed many jobs and skills would not be required in the new orders that have come through . |
| 20 | In retrospect , it is hardly surprising that although the government of the day duly accepted its general strategy for expansion , it rejected the university model as the main basis of that expansion . |
| 21 | Is he further aware that immediately the road was made safe , but before any traffic was allowed to pass , there was a demonstration by IRA supporters , well equipped with banners and placards ? |
| 22 | It is also notable that where a chairman or chief executive has been brought in from outside to those organisations , this may be followed by many changes in senior management and so , from the headhunters ' point of view , putting a chief executive into an older-style organisation is usually an opportunity for them to work with the newly appointed chief executive to build the new senior management team . |
| 23 | It is also true that when a decline sets in in F1 , it is very difficult to retain one 's status . |
| 24 | It is now clear that if the scheme had been adopted it would have had disastrous results . |
| 25 | In marital therapy it is often noticeable that although a couple are asking for help to sort out their problem , so that they may have the closeness and intimacy for which they yearn , fear overcomes hope , and whenever things start to improve one of them can be relied upon to start up the next quarrel . |
| 26 | In some ways , the coaching world is like a jigsaw , in as much that when a piece of the puzzle which one felt was the perfect fit is found not to be in the right place after all , then it goes somewhere else and another piece has to be found to fill the gap . |
| 27 | It must be made perfectly plain that if a man in this position chooses to deceive the court and his legal advisers and put up a false story which had the result of reducing his sentence of imprisonment , the Court would not intervene . |
| 28 | Because of my research experience working with two aspects of permanence , related in my book Captive Clients ( 1980 ) and the evaluation of The Child Wants a Home project ( Adoption and Fostering , Vol. 9 , No. 1 ) , I find it particularly sad that when the term permanence is mentioned in British social work circles it tends to be seen as synonymous with adoption . |
| 29 | Hilary Patrick , the association 's legal adviser , is particularly concerned that if an application is made to section someone with mental health problems they may not be able to afford representation . |
| 30 | It is equally convincing that although the level of unemployment may have an effect on price inflation , there may well be other factors of greater short-term impact , for example , the incorporation of previous price increases into current wage bargaining , regardless of the level of unemployment . |