Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] [adv] [adv] [verb] [that] " in BNC.

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1 Most women grow up absolutely torn and still somehow knowing that they have to make some kind of choice .
2 The Prussian government passed legislation designed to Germanise landholdings in the border districts , but these laws were so badly framed and so crudely implemented that they had exactly the reverse effect from that intended .
3 ‘ Put into the language of today , the general principle being there stated is simply that , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied that the courts must give effect to it , United Kingdom legislation is applicable only to British subjects or to foreigners who by coming to the United Kingdom , whether for a short or a long time , have made themselves subject to British jurisdiction .
4 The story of biblical criticism has been so well documented and so often told that I will not recount it .
5 What evidence is there to show that the system of law and democracy in the European Community is so well established and so widely accepted that it should supersede the means by which we have governed ourselves peacefully through several centuries of war and revolution on the Continent ?
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