Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [that] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therein is part of the magic of cinema : to implant a visual image so strong that somewhere in the psyche the cinematic illusion becomes as real or as powerful as any actual experience . |
| 2 | Some can be so strong that regardless of the consequences they compel action . |
| 3 | If your hunger of gold bee so insatiable that onely for the desire you have thereto , you disquiet so many nations , … |
| 4 | The slogan is so grey-haired that even at party conferences it would n't get a ripple of applause . |
| 5 | Not so much that here on a fine June morning a man lay murdered , but that he , Wexford , had found him . |
| 6 | She watched in silence , her heart crying out to him , suddenly fearful that almost in the same moment that she 'd found him she had lost him , but without knowing why . |
| 7 | But , poorly placed as X Corps was for any new attack , its position on either side of Fort Douaumont was so untenable that just by sitting still it was losing 230 men a day to French shellfire . |
| 8 | It 's perhaps typical that even with a track as self-consciously silly as ‘ Ebeneezer ’ , there has to be a message . |
| 9 | ‘ The Russian Empire ’ , wrote Catherine II in 1764 , ‘ is so large that apart from the Autocratic Sovereign every other form of government is harmful to it , because all others are slower in their execution and contain a great multitude of various horrors , which lead to the disintegration of power and strength more than that of one Sovereign , who possesses all the means for the eradication of all harm and looks on the general good as his own . ’ |
| 10 | And he , for his part , was feeling so euphoric that instead of shouting to his son to get up and stir his stumps , he had actually gone in there and put the envelope on Adam 's bedside table . |
| 11 | And dispensers full of candles , to be set when lit into iron trolleys — so many that even on a relatively deserted day when I was there , you could hear their crepitation . |
| 12 | The species grows wild in Europe and the near East , but gardeners have been selecting nice forms for so long that even by the 17th century , flowers could be had in white , purple , pale and deep yellow , large and small , and with the colours striped , feathered or flamed . |
| 13 | The pig feeding scheme was so successful that even with rationing , the amount of bacon consumed in nineteen forty one was greater than the annual pre-war consumption per head . |
| 14 | We now know this to be true of all the planets ; however , the effect is so small that only in the case of Mercury was it detectable by nineteenth-century astronomers . |
| 15 | The United States is so big that even in the twentieth century the inhabitants prefer to explore their own continent . |
| 16 | His story sounded so genuine that just for a moment she was tempted to tell him , but something held her back , a deep-seated fear of making a mistake . |
| 17 | In theory this should sort out the wheat from the chaff but the definition of wheat in the intelligence world is so wide that even with the best filter the net volume of material is of such staggering proportions that it is beyond any useful human assessment . |
| 18 | Most of Lewis and Harris and the uplands of South Uist have a very low Potential Water Deficit , as precipitation equals or even exceeds evapo-transpiration in all months of the year , and the uplands of southern Lewis , Harris and South Uist are so moist that even in summer ( April-September ) there is a PWS of over 500 mm . |
| 19 | Or was it just possible that right to the end he had believed that she would find out , and come to him ? |
| 20 | I am not convinced that even in theory this is an accurate reflection of section 2 , for I think it possible that in many cases the investigation will have concluded at an earlier stage . |
| 21 | It was becoming painfully obvious that apart from a brief , overpowering lust there was no reciprocation of her fragile feelings . |
| 22 | However , I am not sure that even in this case an exception must automatically be made . |
| 23 | It was not surprising that even within the upper reaches of the Party discontent began to come into the open , or at least to be expressed clearly behind closed doors at meetings of the Central Committee or Council of Ministers . |
| 24 | In view of the slowness with which changes of mental outlook came about in those days , it is not surprising that even after the introduction of the mechanical clock in the fourteenth century most people , including many of the more sophisticated , were far less concerned in their daily life with the passage of time than we are . |
| 25 | It is also clear that only about 1–2% of our rivers have access agreements for anyone at all for any parts of their lengths at any time , a significant part of that minute percentage resulting from the work of Adam Box 's team in the Wessex Water area over the last year . |
| 26 | The Ministry of Finance , headed from 1862 to 1878 by the liberal economist M. K. Reutern , became equally convinced that only by significant industrial expansion could the regime 's chronic budgetary problems be solved . |
| 27 | It is particularly notable that neither in the mines nor in the other industries nationalised at that time was there any substantial movement towards workers ' control . |
| 28 | If by some chance the Poles had agreed to hand over the city it is quite possible that even at this late stage NSDAP support in the city would have evaporated . |
| 29 | but I , you see mm now see I 'm not , I 'm really not convinced by that at all , I because I mean it 's quite clear that right across Europe in nineteen thirty nine , nineteen forty , er there was a real sense of oh no , not again |
| 30 | On the work front , he took a step nearer to what he thought would be a move towards transferring his energies to the other side of the camera and his next work was so outlandishly eccentric that perhaps in the year 1998 it will be rediscovered and offered as a superb example of long forgotten pop art of thirty years earlier . |