Example sentences of "[adv] [that] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roof , which is stripped of tiles , provides the water-supply ; the chimney smokes so thickly that the opposite wall is barely visible ; the few remaining window-panes are stained and the majority are stuffed with rags and paper . |
| 2 | She could tell that Dr Neil was looking at her most sceptically , although he was touching her so gently that the black fear which she had felt before she had fainted did not return — and pooh to his suspicions ! |
| 3 | Notice especially that the definite article may be one such further selecting qualifier . |
| 4 | In Blackpool , evidence mounts daily that the Conservative Party has rejected Thatcherism . |
| 5 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 6 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 7 | The people of Stamford were passionately anxious that the railway should come their way , for it was plain enough that the great coaching trade , by which they lived , was doomed . |
| 8 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 9 | For the purposes of the Conservative Party conference , it was enough that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer denied the existence of an alternative economic strategy . |
| 10 | The large presence at the start was proof enough that the overall standard of squash in this country is at its highest-ever level . |
| 11 | Although the authorities conflict , it has been laid down that the new doctrine of reckless manslaughter supersedes the older doctrine of manslaughter by gross negligence . |
| 12 | But then , much more to the point , the pope went on to say that there was also a letter from Pope Boniface IV to King Ethelbert , from which he quoted a passage laying down that the monastic community of the cathedral church was to be continued by all Augustine 's successors . |
| 13 | However , previous decisions had also laid it down that the identical procedure was to be followed in both cases . |
| 14 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 15 | Could I say that we 'd be willing perhaps that the Conservative amendment first of all , and then to turn to the amendment by the Liberal democrats erm I would like to suggest that schools or other charities , not just schools are exempt from any registration charge but will still notify the local authority in , in advance of an event , because events held at schools or by charities still create problems with traffic and parking and congestion |
| 16 | Feeling stunned as that truth hit her , she almost gasped out loud that the whole evening had gone by , a whole evening , and she 'd barely asked so much as one of the questions Cara had primed her with ! |
| 17 | We are interested in the notion of affordability , not in the notion of means testing and we recognise crucially that the public sector provides an opportunity for people . |
| 18 | Or you can rewrite the sentence so that the plural pronoun is used : Readers will find their expectations satisfied . |
| 19 | ‘ Counterfeiting techniques have become highly sophisticated and in many cases the packaging has been copied to the finest degree so that the ordinary consumer would have absolutely no idea , from the outside , that they were n't buying the genuine article , ’ explains Mike Wadsley . |
| 20 | The capitalist world-system is viewed as all-embracing so that the internal structure of each nation 's economy is of secondary importance in explaining developments . |
| 21 | We also know that when a new layer arrived , it was not deposited simultaneously all over the preceding layer , it was unrolled from one side or the other , so that the actual contact was progressive rather than synchronous . |
| 22 | The OCU also operated the T.4s which were on the strength of the flying squadrons so that the actual complement was almost double this meagre total . |
| 23 | Instead an exponential distribution is used , so that the actual arrival time of the next vehicle is x seconds after the previous vehicle , where x is a random variable sampled from an exponential distribution with a mean of r seconds . |
| 24 | The bulbs ' internal circuitry alters the mains current so that the actual load placed on the grid is larger than that recorded on consumers ' electricity meters . |
| 25 | The theorem of minimum potential energy then applies , so that the actual strain energy in the mixture is less than or equal to that of any unequilibrated state of distortion with the same surface displacements . |
| 26 | interfaces be developed so that the range of spatial operations in a system can be organized into standardized functions or tasks , and so that the spatial database can be visualized . |
| 27 | The increase in the industrial trade deficit was partly compensated for by surpluses on services and tourism so that the current-account deficit remained small in relation to gross domestic product ( GDP ) ( under 0.4 per cent ) . |
| 28 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 29 | It is essential that the parties to a takeover bid recognise their associates and that associates recognise their associated status so that the appropriate disclosure obligations can be complied with . |
| 30 | This is because ( 1 ) the future earnings of and dividend payments on shares are unknown and have to be forecast ; ( 2 ) there is no maturity date and hence no maturity value ; and ( 3 ) shares are the riskiest investments to hold , having the residual claim on the firm 's assets and the net income generated by these assets , so that the appropriate discount rate is very difficult to calculate . |