Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a thick worm , pinkish when fresh , and the cuticle is rather transparent so that the internal organs can be seen . |
| 2 | Do n't you think it 's a little unrealistic now that the British are n't thinking more in concrete terms of bringing troops back home from Germany ? |
| 3 | the forces of the countries of the socialist camp are so great today and they are so strong economically that they can fully take upon themselves , on the basis of the development of normal trade relations , the provision of Cuba with all the necessary goods which are denied her by the United States … the Soviet Union is prepared to deliver oil and other goods in amounts fully meeting the requirements of Cuba , in exchange for Cuban goods . |
| 4 | This feeling was so strong there that he almost expected to see Linkworth standing there , watching him . |
| 5 | In such uses , therefore , the speaker mentally situates a real event in the field of the merely possible so that he can express a judgement , not on the reality of the happening , but on the appropriateness of its occurrence ( p. 219 ) : judging whether something real is appropriate for existence or not involves imagining what things would be like without its existence , and so leads to taking a mental position before its existence where both existence and non-existence are seen as possible . |
| 6 | At the start of chapter 16 we are reminded of it again , and things seem so hopeless now that Sarah urges Abraham to have a child by her Egyptian maid , Hagar . |
| 7 | It was the first event of its kind , and only possible now that traffic was beginning to move again after the restraints of the war . |
| 8 | when the music gets so loud here that you ca n't stand |
| 9 | It was even less palatable now that its strength made the taste discernible . |
| 10 | At one point , in December 1925 , with a liberal Governor-General in Vietnam , the Vietnamese were told that they could aspire to a fuller and higher life to become one day a nation ; but a few months later it was predicted that , while an independent Vietnam ( in the indeterminate future ) was a possibility , the bonds between it and France would become sufficiently strong so that nothing would ever break them . |
| 11 | This latter event is all too obviously possible now that man has produced the means , inherent in nuclear warfare and other means of mass destruction , to destroy all life . |
| 12 | Her voice was so dry now that sometimes Kit fancied he heard her when he could not , in the scraping of the boughs of trees , the footfalls in the dusty earth . |
| 13 | This is so respectable today that Christians of all denominations have embraced it . |
| 14 | A majority of the United Kingdom workforce decided against strike action and the mood of the Glasgow workers was so clear yesterday that a vote did not have to be taken . |
| 15 | Auntie Ethel 's old school friend , Elaine , not so popular now that she was Rich and Successful . |
| 16 | They are still the most glamorous club in Britain , but our confidence is so high now that we could take them apart . |
| 17 | On the other hand , something like walking past a building site in the summer in shorts is much easier now that I 've lost weight . |
| 18 | The company claims that porting applications from its HP/UX Unix line is much easier now that MPE/ix is in place — hence the surprising number of software houses that HP persuaded to work on both Unix and MPE/ix versions in its recent drive for high-end commercial software ( UX No 386 ) . |
| 19 | ‘ That 's a great shame , because unemployment is so universal nowadays that I would have hoped the stigma would disappear . ’ |
| 20 | It will be abundantly clear already that you are in the midst of superb quality rock . |
| 21 | Isaac was old and his eyes were so dim so that he could not see ’ ( 27.1 ) . |
| 22 | But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way . |
| 23 | An ’ I 'm aware of them so much now that I 'd do anyfink in my power to do somefink to them to get self-satisfaction . |
| 24 | It numbed the mind of one woman so much recently that she left her baby to suffocate inside her car while hoping to hit the jackpot , a bucketful of balls , which can be exchanged for jars of coffee or pairs of tights . |
| 25 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 26 | So violent sometimes that they can not stand up but lie perfectly exhausted . |
| 27 | Commenting on the report , David Trippier , a junior environment minister , said that " the evidence is much clearer now that ozone loss is not confined to the Antarctic but is prevalent also in the northern hemisphere " . |
| 28 | As one person put it , ‘ The only ones who knew me from the time I was born have gone , and it 's almost as if that period in my life is less real now that there is no one left alive who shared it with me . ’ |
| 29 | But Lady Thatcher , who is flying back to Britain from the United States , is apparently unaware yet that she will also be invited to give evidence about the affair which , according to one MP , ‘ went right to the heart of Government ’ when she was in power . |
| 30 | How can you now suddenly decide that this is the truth when you were so convinced before that I was guilty of every form of unscrupulous dealing possible ? ’ |