Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] it [modal v] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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1 | At its most absurd it might mean that companies could be sued for sending letters to the wrong address . |
2 | Because the athlete 's heart is so muscular it can pump the same amount of blood with 50 beats per minute that the average heart pumps with 75 beats . |
3 | It is so aerodynamically perfect and the down forces are so strong it could travel upside down across your ceiling at 150mph without falling off . |
4 | If it had n't been so awful it would have been almost comical , the thought that Luke Calder had been virtually accused of kerb-crawling ! |
5 | It 's so wacky it could work . |
6 | One particular bedroom is so spacious it can accommodate up to four people and full of atmosphere , with an unusual brick vaulted ceiling . |
7 | Several times she 'd caught him staring at her with a warm , smiling expression in his brown eyes , and if she had n't been so sensible it would have made her feel quite wobbly . |
8 | Above her , the vault seemed so high it should have had rag-clouds like Mars , but it was unearthly white . |
9 | There is a display also of various types of mountain refuge or cabin , from which you can judge how extremely uncomfortable it must have been for those invited by Count Russell to share his quarters on his favourite mountain of Vignemale , for the so-called ‘ Russell ’ is quite the most Spartan of shelters , little more than a hollow scooped out under an overhanging rock . |
10 | Anyway , if she were so ill it would look funny taking the children — and I 'm not leaving them with her ! ’ |
11 | In practice , I 'm not so sure it would work out . ’ |
12 | This had happened in Abingdon befoire but the local economy is so buoyant it will cope . |
13 | Superglue is very powerful stuff , so powerful it will take your skin off if you pull too hard . |
14 | Some said the syndicate that runs it is so powerful it can order the airline , and even the government , to do whatever it wants . |
15 | At dusk the clouds over Manhattan , which had threatened snow all day , cleared and revealed a pristine sky , its colour so ambiguous it might have fuelled a philosophical debate as to the nature of the blue . |
16 | If the catoplebas was especially peckish it would gnaw on its own forelegs . |
17 | A weed that 's so poisonous it can kill horses and cattle is thriving , because chemicals once used to destroy it have been banned . |
18 | If it 's a thing that the public thinks is wrong or that is n't really , truly , basically artistic it 'll fade away anyway ten years from now nobody 'll think about it . |
19 | So heavy it would crush you as it pushed from side to side . |
20 | Beyond that sea rises a mountain range and beyond that stretches a vast desert where the sun twists round and beats down so hot it would dry out an eagle 's wings and turn them to dust if he flew too long . |
21 | A sun so hot it would dry out an eagle 's wings ! |
22 | Less successful it would seem , has been ME 's slightly heavier weight Karisma range . |
23 | The Galaxy C-5 is so big it can transport half a dozen helicopters in one go . |
24 | As he walked back down the cul-de-sac McLeish found a demarcation line , so precise it might have been achieved by running a tape across the road , where the commercial element stopped and flat-fronted , early Victorian terraced houses , took over . |
25 | Even if he had been so inclined it would have been extremely difficult to pursue reforms which posed a significant threat to the interests of the landed nobility . |
26 | The opening scene is so shocking it will leave you gasping . |
27 | Natalie Merchant 's voice — so emotive it could make you like a song about King Of The Gits Jack Kerouac and feel sorry for the little bunny rabbits that we cruelly kill for a laugh — rose through songs which flew and were simultaneously ecstatic and melancholy . |
28 | IT SOUNDED SO CLOSE it must have been in the street below us . |
29 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
30 | It 's so smart it can convert any ASCII text into fax format and store up to 200Kb 's worth . |