Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adj] [that] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The pace of ideation is for the most part so great that a more formal procedure of idea-handling would be obstructive and pointless . |
| 2 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 3 | The last one , a second half tackle by Neil Ruddock , has Wilkinson so anguished that a police woman had to tell him to quieten down . |
| 4 | In the 1780s , when Highgate Hill was so steep and deeply rutted that carriages regularly failed to make the grade , and the drive to town sufficiently dangerous that a wise man went with pistols , a merchant called Thomas Roxborough had constructed a handsome house on Hornsey Lane , designed for him by one Henry Holland . |
| 5 | It is quite easy to see , intuitively , that a crack is a nasty dangerous thing to have about the house but it is by no means so obvious that a step can cause a bad stress concentration . |
| 6 | But she just spat in his face and went out , slamming the door so hard that a picture of herself fell off the wall . |
| 7 | Bomb hoax — placing imitation bomb in shop — whether offence so serious that a non-custodial sentence for it can not be justified |
| 8 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 9 | We can develop in Europe only within the guidelines set out by Central Government , a Government quite clear that a joining of the attitudes and minds is desirable , not federalism . |
| 10 | Ruth was silent , gripping the phone in both hands so hard that a dull ache started up . |
| 11 | ‘ A reservoir is a lot more complicated that a sponge filled with oil , ’ Astrid explained . |
| 12 | With Maisie still keeping the regulation distance between the two of them , he almost ran after the headmaster , swinging his arms crazily and taking strides so long that a casual observer might have been forgiven for assuming that he , too , was practising the art of Islamic dancing . |
| 13 | Is the Minister not aware that a significant number of pensioners who own their own homes are among the poorest in the country ? |
| 14 | He could live happily among poor working people on his holidays , but found immense pleasure in staying in a French house so grand that a servant squeezed the tubes of toothpaste between applications . |
| 15 | His hair was dark brown , and his face so asymmetrical that a reflection of it in a piece of broken mirror on the wall was unrecognizable . |