Example sentences of "[adv] attached to that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Life 's too extraordinary just to write about that over and over and over again and to be so attached to that pain . |
| 2 | This leads to a process of amplification or snowballing : individuals who are caught and labelled as criminal see themselves so and act accordingly , thus the label becomes more widely applied and firmly fixed , and the criminal becomes more attached to that label . |
| 3 | The more one partner complains about the behaviour of the other but remains firmly attached to that person , the more we can suspect that a massive projective system is in operation . |
| 4 | The member of parliament saw in this ambition an opportunity to strengthen his own interest in the burgh by detaching the schoolmaster 's brother-in-law , the bailie , from the opposition party in the council , for the bailie was at that moment firmly attached to that faction by a promise from Dempster 's rival that he would procure a kirk for the bailie 's son . |
| 5 | six Beiderbecke and Eubie Blake , Billy Mayerl and Nat Gonella can not easily be assimilated , or at least reduced , merely to a preformed role in the machinery of a dominant system of musical craftsmanship , nor can Bob Dylan and John Lennon , Chuck Berry , Bob Marley and Merle Haggard , let alone Joe Strummer or John Lydon ; though , equally obviously , they all , in another sense , come to be umbilically attached to that system . |
| 6 | I 'm rather attached to that pig . " |