Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] [that] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 This is necessary because the psychological action on many bodily processes can be so great that even a sugar pill can have striking therapeutic effects if the person believes it will .
2 Experienced credit managers will be well aware that once a pattern of payment is established , it is difficult to coax customers out of that pattern .
3 Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea .
4 The men who led the Cracow revolutionary movement ( the Polish insurrection of 1830 ) were deeply convinced that only a democratic Poland could be independent , and a democratic Poland was impossible without the abolition of feudal rights , without the agrarian movement which would transform the tied peasants into free proprietors .
5 Dungannon 's Clarke , now attached to the host K Club , has improved his score each day — 75 on Thursday , 73 on Friday and a splendid 70 yesterday — but it is most unlikely that even a golfer of his calibre could make up seven shots in one round .
6 Normally , the energy of the particle is still positive , but the gravitational field inside a black hole is so strong that even a real particle can have negative energy there .
7 But the judge said : ‘ This offence is so serious that only a custodial sentence can be justified .
8 In 1936 he wrote " Nowadays the trouble and expense involved in keeping a stud of hawks is so great that only a fortunate few are able to do so . "
9 She suspects that Charles suspects that she had once had an affair with Ivan , but of course she had not , though she concedes that Ivan is so unpleasant that only a degree of past sexual intimacy could plausibly explain the kind of relationship that he and Liz have over the years established .
10 The cost of freehold land is so high that only a wealthy man who farms intensively can hope to make a living on his own small farm .
11 Currency markets , however , take the view that the deficit is so large that only a lower exchange rate will help to speed up the adjustment .
12 Significantly , given this generally positive response to the Oxfordshire scheme , it is perhaps surprising that only a fifth judge that it was very useful in producing proposals for improvements in educational practice : one of its prime purposes .
13 However , it is not true that only a superficial representation determines the interpretation of a surface anaphor , or that the final interpretation is always the one that the superficial representation licenses .
14 With real mortgage rates on extra borrowing normally between 4 and 5 per cent , it is quite plausible that about a quarter to a third of the value of housing equity — estimated at £830billion at end-1987 — could be due to deregulation .
15 Ronni was suddenly grateful that just a moment ago she 'd already had this conversation .
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