Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [num] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At their disposal were a ludicrously inadequate army and an administrative machine so primitive that one observer in the early eighteenth century alleged that the tiny Italian city-state of Lucca possessed a larger civil service than they . |
| 2 | Although this size is larger than those granules advocated in Chronic Diseases ( 200 to a grain ) they are still so small that one drop of the alcoholic LM 1 liquid can completely wet at least 500 of them . |
| 3 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |
| 4 | As Buckley LJ said in Gillespie v Bowles : it is a fundamental consideration in the construction of contracts of this kind that it is inherently improbable that one party to the contract should intend to absolve the other party from the consequences of the latter 's own negligence . |
| 5 | It is certainly true that one strand at least in a Northumbrian view of the past seems to have thought of Nechtanesmere as destroying the position of military dominance originally achieved by Eadwine in the first half of the seventh century ( HE II , 5 ) , whereas Eadwine 's ascendancy over the Britons in Wales had disappeared by the mid-630s and an overlordship of the southern English kingdoms , restored only temporarily in the late 650s , was lost long before 685 ( see above , p. 85 ) . |