Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] that [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet de Gaulle himself was remarkably confident that the army would toe the line . |
| 2 | Even so , I was rather surprised that a family must pay 3.50 for adults and 2.50 for kids to visit and listen to the BBC 's exhibition of favourite old radio programmes at Broadcasting House . |
| 3 | The ever-anxious Ford had been appointed to replace Major Richard Sharpe as commanding officer of the battalion , which of itself was cause for the Colonel to worry , for Joseph Ford was keenly aware that the Rifleman had been a most competent and experienced soldier . |
| 4 | ‘ But he was most keen that the thing should n't go on and on like it usually does . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ So I see , ’ said Sophia , unable to keep a note of indignation out of her tone , for it was most disquieting that the man she intended for her sister 's husband should be discovered filling the hot water bottle of another woman . |
| 6 | It was somewhat ironic that the Home Office moved from its traditional defence of political liberty into a law and order stance just as the main police spokesman was advocating more liberal and socially aware arguments . |
| 7 | Folly tried to flinch away , but he was so close that every movement seemed to bring him closer . |
| 8 | ‘ The missile was so close that the warning system in the cab illuminated and fired off defensive flares , ’ he said . |
| 9 | In fact the man 's examination of his papers was so cursory that a lot of Hapsburg ingenuity had evidently been wasted . |
| 10 | The danger of a break through the northern end of the spit was so apparent that a sea wall was built along this section in 1890 . |
| 11 | The silence was so total that the auditorium might have been empty . |
| 12 | Even Einstein , when he formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915 , was so sure that the universe had to be static that he modified his theory to make this possible , introducing a so-called cosmological constant into his equations . |
| 13 | She was smaller than Jenna with none of Jenna 's slender , willowy height , but she was so healthy-looking that the fact in itself gave her an added attraction . |
| 14 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
| 15 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 16 | Demand was so great that a commentary of the programmes was published . |
| 17 | The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised . |
| 18 | After the first men were made , it relates , the noise of their many children was so great that the god of the earth could not sleep . |
| 19 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 20 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 21 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |
| 22 | The concentration of the cast was so strong that the mood was well maintained . |
| 23 | The resistance to devolution was so strong that the government was forced to accept that the bills should be ratified by referenda . |
| 24 | But when the Central Policy Review Staff ( the ‘ Think Tank ’ ) had suggested in the early eighties that they mount a full-scale investigation into the practices and abuses of the professions , they discovered that the influence of the lawyers upon Number 10 was so strong that the proposal was sat upon and then returned , with a suggestion they confine themselves to teachers and social workers . |
| 25 | The controversy was so deep that an appeal was made to Rome by the combatants . |
| 26 | The night was so dark that the end of the trench was perceptible only as a lightening of the murk , where the ditch of the town lay ahead . |
| 27 | He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop . |
| 28 | Their addresses were well received and the publicity they attracted was so beneficial that the BDA in 1976 , by way of follow-up , paid for a lecture tour by Dr. David Denton , another American educationist , whose public meetings in Edinburgh , Glasgow , Carlisle , Newcastle , Doncaster and Oxford were a sell-out and an outstanding success . |
| 29 | Her 92nd birthday was featured in Link and she was so pleased that the company still remembered her . |
| 30 | The first school was held in Edinburgh and was so successful that the BDA summer school has been an annual event ever since . |