Example sentences of "[adj] that it [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the offer was not completely rejected by the Palestinian side , they made it clear that it fell short of Palestinian aspirations for a legislative council to take over control of the occupied territories from Israel [ see p. 38837 for Palestinian self-government proposal tabled at the fourth round of talks ] . |
| 2 | Precise details of the evidence presented at that meeting have not yet been revealed but it is clear that it proved inconclusive . |
| 3 | Ford , however , has made it clear that it wants ultimate majority control of Jaguar — something which the company 's board , led by chairman Sir John Egan , is resisting fiercely . |
| 4 | Finally , though it must be generally accepted that individuals can not be protected from foolish actions based on an inadequate knowledge of the law , the situation following the 1954 Act was so complex and , because of the inevitable unpredictability of the necessity for compulsory purchase , so risky that it appeared likely ( in retrospect at least ) that public opinion would demand a further change . |
| 5 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 6 | In a sense this is an extreme form of heterogeneous accretion of volatiles , though the separation of planetary accretion from the veneering by volatiles is so complete that it merits separate consideration . |
| 7 | However , the growth of the Catholic population was such that it became clear the Diocese of Beverley which comprised the whole of Yorkshire needed to be divided . |
| 8 | Just as the ‘ Verbivore ’ phenomenon is caused through a flattening or levelling of the modulations of air waves , so the hierarchy of narrative levels is ‘ flattened ’ such that it becomes impossible in any given instance to determine whose account we are reading or whose mind we are supposedly ‘ inside ’ . |
| 9 | It is just that the structure of the viral RNA happens to be such that it makes cellular machinery chum out copies of itself . |
| 10 | It is ironic that IT makes fundamental change both essential and possible , but — to repeat — we need the change anyway . |
| 11 | She loved him , so much that it seemed impossible that she had lived her life this long without him , impossible that he could n't know it from her response . |
| 12 | The British connection dated back to the time when Jacobite refugees settled here in the eighteenth century , but it was after Wellington 's victories in the region early in the 1800s that it became serious . |
| 13 | The building was so perfect that it became fantastic , and we imagined a huge finger coming from the sky and pressing on the dome . |
| 14 | Health and safety watchdogs say they 're not convinced that it has sufficient safety measures in place to protect passengers . |
| 15 | It was not until 1836 that it became possible to measure the amount of sugar left in a wine after the first fermentation , when Professor Francois of Châlons-sur-Marne published his Nouvelles observations sur la fermentation de vin en bouteilles , suivies d'un procédé pour reconnaître la quantité de sucre contenu dans le vin immédiatement avant tirage . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He tries so hard that it seems churlish to deny him a few points for effort . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | THE upheaval that shook Eastern Europe felt so natural that it seems pointless to ask why it happened . |
| 20 | The bid-ask spread was so large that it converted significant profits into significant losses . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . |
| 24 | I think he 's fit to go and he 's so unhappy that it seems unkind to keep him caged up . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | You will probably not have to lift your dog up frequently , but it is important that it becomes used to this experience . |
| 28 | The British Shippers ’ Council has made it plain that it welcomes foreign competition as a means to lower rates of freight . |
| 29 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 30 | Herta is so small that it seems natural to be quite strict with her . |