Example sentences of "[adj] that it [vb past] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now Botswana could not cut itself off from South Africa during the long years of apartheid but Botswana did make clear that it opposed apartheid and voiced this very strongly and much to the annoyance often of the South African government . |
| 2 | Statements by the Iranian government made it clear that it saw ECO as the basis for a future Islamic common market which might ultimately embrace some 300 million people — a quarter of all Muslims — and rival the European Communities in importance . |
| 3 | Johanna was so popular that it took police a day to talk to all her friends after she was reported missing . |
| 4 | The force of the impact between rope and throat was such that it ruptured ligament and cartilage in Putt 's larynx . |
| 5 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 6 | Funnily enough , we had just as much peril when the thaw came , because it was so rapid that it caused flooding . |
| 7 | The eyes especially were beautiful ; very large , their ovals faintly twisted , a cool doe 's eyes , almond eyes , giving a natural mystery to a face otherwise so regular that it risked perfection . |
| 8 | The speed of her car was still so great that it took Chesarynth a while to realize the signs were n't complete . |
| 9 | The shock was so great that it brought tears to his eyes , and when he 'd turned off the tap and dried his hand , the tears did n't stop . |
| 10 | Huy struck a flint and the lamp spread a tight circle of yellow light , so deep that it drew objects into it . |
| 11 | Without warning , it suddenly let out a blast of the 62 first line of Dixie on a five-tone airhorn , so loud and so unexpected that it made Alina take a startled step back . |
| 12 | His expression was so tender that it shocked Lee . |
| 13 | Regretfully she decided not to wash her hair ; it was so thick that it took ages to dry and she was sure his patience would n't last that long ; also she had to get to work . |
| 14 | It was 1837 that it became Ring & Brymer , an entity retained by Lord Forte when he took over the company in 1962 . |
| 15 | Edward had conceived and arranged the exhibition himself and was aware that it lacked verve : he was not good at these things . |
| 16 | The noise was so constant and so intense that it fabricated silence . |
| 17 | Over forty years ago , Sutherland 's ( 1940 , 1945 , 1949 ) contribution to our knowledge and understanding of corporate crime was so significant that it led Mannheim to comment that if there were a Nobel Prize for Criminology , ‘ Sutherland would have been one of the most deserving ’ ( 1965 : 470 ) . |
| 18 | The smoke this produced was so dense that it closed airports and smothered half the country . |
| 19 | His sons were there and so was a concourse of knights so huge that it reminded men of his Coronation . |
| 20 | The swing was so wild that it unbalanced Sharpe , but it also terrified the second Dragoon who swerved frantically away from the blade 's hissing reach . |
| 21 | Also , we were informed by a local that it had avgas . |