Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [that] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | This success also gave City their first League double of the season , but it was a little ironical that in a game where the respective goalkeepers played a prominent part in keeping it goalless for 70 minutes , an error by the Halesowen custodian should have produced the match winning goal . |
| 2 | But the bonding between an infant and his or her family is so strong that within a few days , as in the case of Marie and her partner Peter , you are convinced you know your own baby from any other in the world . |
| 3 | The ceiling was so low that with a jump Matilda could nearly touch it with her finger-tips . |
| 4 | Within the hour the camera , the film and the physical chemistry became so clear that with a great sense of excitement I hurried to the place where a friend was staying to describe to him in detail a dry camera which would give a picture immediately after exposure . |
| 5 | Donlevy ‘ lorded it over everybody else ’ and exasperated Ray Milland so much that during a fencing sequence , Milland aimed for an unpadded spot on Donlevy , managing to draw blood . |
| 6 | The international banking community was so nervous that for a while no forward foreign exchange markets operated properly anywhere . |
| 7 | I think of you so hard that after a while I can almost feel you kissing me . |
| 8 | He looked so contrite that for a moment she was in danger of actually believing him , until common sense came to her aid . |
| 9 | At an early age he was apprenticed to the lace trade in Nottingham , but in about 1820 moved to Chard in Somerset , a centre of lace-making , and was so successful that within a few years he had established his own business as a manufacturer of bobbins and bobbin carriages . |
| 10 | They were so shocked that for a while I was convinced they would go away and not only cancel our betrothal but probably the wedding between Boz and Alamena as well . ’ |
| 11 | Yet investors were so shocked that in a day they knocked $13.4 billion off the value of the company . |
| 12 | The train puffed to a stop ; only five passengers alighted , and the only male among them a tall young man , his hair so fair that from a distance it appeared almost white , waved to them before turning back to the carriage and lifting out a case . |
| 13 | The dust was so thick that for a moment he could not see . |
| 14 | The image experienced in a flash of gold , a flush of warmth to her face , was so vivid that for a second she hesitated at the kitchen door as if disorientated . |
| 15 | The memory was so vivid that for a second she thought she heard the echo of the slam . |
| 16 | But the vista that opened before them was so fantastic that for a few moments she almost forgot to be afraid . |
| 17 | This applies when the words are so wide that on a strict construction they cover improbable and unlikely events . |
| 18 | It is only necessary that as a result of the transfer of assets income becomes payable to a person who is domiciled or resident outside the United Kingdom . |
| 19 | This is so sensitive that in a noisy office it can pick up an unamplified solid electric guitar from about 12 inches and show the exact pitch on the strobe . |
| 20 | He was so astonished that for a few seconds he stood where he was and when he did turn round he could see the top of the wall , the delicate pattern of wire mesh against the sky , and hear running footsteps . |
| 21 | The selection process is not unlike that for a giant multinational corporation , and those who win through have some similarities to corporate executives . |
| 22 | It is then not surprising that for a very long period the most difficult problems in the social relations of cultural practice revolved around the question of literacy . |
| 23 | Is he further aware that in a city such as Birmingham , where problems arise over bringing families into the United Kingdom , there is widespread disgust and dismay at the high number of bogus asylum applications ? |
| 24 | She knew she would n't manage it right away , but she felt fairly confident that with a great deal of practice and effort , she would succeed in the end . |
| 25 | Herbs can be grown indoors in the house , on suitable window-sills , but they should receive as much light as possible , even those that like a little shade in the garden . |
| 26 | As far as the County Highways Authority 's concerned , I think they 've made it quite clear that as a matter of principle , when they considered the new settlement , the new settlement proposal was then around nineteen hundred dwellings , larger than what is being proposed at the moment . |
| 27 | But can we then be quite sure that at a later stage , when the same kind of performance has been taken out of the service and then out of the church , the signal is unambiguously to ‘ art ’ ? |
| 28 | It is undoubtedly true that without a certain facility with money and with other arithmetical skills , people are handicapped in going about their daily business . |
| 29 | Can I say , Bill , it 's very interesting that in a programme erm which is supposed to be talking about John Major we 've in fact discussion erm getting women into Parliament , we 've discussed Margaret Thatcher a lot , we 've discussed the press portrayal of all politicians , and in fact we 've hardly mentioned John Major . |
| 30 | It is therefore clear that as a result of the statutory machinery an individual can have a substantial measure of control over his own working life compulsorily delegated to an agent , a trade union , which he has not selected and may even have his own contract of service varied without his consent . |