Example sentences of "[adj] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Village hoardings are covered with adverts for Astra margarine — a product made of saturated fat so hard that it stays solid even in tropical heat . |
| 32 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 33 | But that had been seven months ago , a chill morning in mid-February , when the bushes which screened the canal walk from the neighbouring council estate had been tangled thickets of lifeless thorn ; when the branches of the ash trees had been black with buds so tight that it seemed impossible they could ever crack into greenness ; and the thin denuded wands of willow , drooping over the canal , had cut delicate feathers on the quickening stream . |
| 34 | THE upheaval that shook Eastern Europe felt so natural that it seems pointless to ask why it happened . |
| 35 | The snow is so white that it reflects any available light . |
| 36 | The bid-ask spread was so large that it converted significant profits into significant losses . |
| 37 | It has leg-like fins with fleshy bases like the coelacanth ; it seems very likely that it had air-breathing pouches from its gut like a lungfish . |
| 38 | It is interesting and perhaps unusual that it developed first in politics but now is used more and more in commerce and industry . |
| 39 | Some of the patterns shown are so elaborate that it seems doubtful that they were woven : some may have been printed with blocks , while others may have been produced by a mixed-medium method , combining printing , embroidery , and appliqué work . |
| 40 | ‘ But it is so naive that it seems unlikely the politicians will want to spend much time on it , ’ says Jean Rankine , the museum 's deputy director . |
| 41 | Jenny in the afternoon till five making sure that it arrives quicker than ever . |
| 42 | The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words . |
| 43 | I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery . |
| 44 | I think he 's fit to go and he 's so unhappy that it seems unkind to keep him caged up . |
| 45 | Like many distance runners in the eighties , Solly experimented with altitude training , and discovered too late that it takes more than thin air to do the trick . |
| 46 | June 1873 , the Prince and Princess of Wales held a garden party there , at which Queen Victoria , also the Shah of Persia , were present , and the list of guests was so long that it filled three columns of the Times . |
| 47 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 48 | The simple-mindedness of their consideration makes the object of it complex in comparison — so complex that it becomes difficult to understand how mere mortal man has ever managed to enjoy anything . |
| 49 | It was not until the Life Peerages Act 1958 that it became possible for a woman to be created a life peer and sit and not until the Peerage Act 1963 that hereditary peeresses in their own right were allowed to join them . |
| 50 | Frequently the results were so error-prone that it took more effort to correct the translation than it actually did to manually translate the text . |
| 51 | You will probably not have to lift your dog up frequently , but it is important that it becomes used to this experience . |
| 52 | The British Shippers ’ Council has made it plain that it welcomes foreign competition as a means to lower rates of freight . |
| 53 | One local MP says it 's outrageous that it costs two thousand pounds a week to keep the boy at the centre . |
| 54 | The problem was that every time they took it over 250 mph the left wing became so heavy that it needed two hands to hold it up . |
| 55 | His death was , on the contrary , so unexpected that it found several of the key political figures away from court . |
| 56 | His death was , on the contrary , so unexpected that it found several of the key political figures away from court . |
| 57 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 58 | Herta is so small that it seems natural to be quite strict with her . |
| 59 | That 's worse that it looks terrible that |
| 60 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |