Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Salinas 's people are acutely aware that lack of competition and cosiness with the state have resulted in the squandering of billions and led to insufficient capital investment . |
| 2 | Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise for another 18 months and they are acutely aware that fear of unemployment could hold back spending and delay any economic recovery . |
| 3 | What really happens during the very early or late stages of the universe , when gravitational fields are so strong that quantum effects can not be ignored ? |
| 4 | ‘ We are so thankful that donor organs became available just 10 days after Laura arrived in America . ’ |
| 5 | You will think of many examples , but the differences are so small that context is crucial . |
| 6 | As a consequence , they dislike having to attend incidents at this time which are so serious that action can not be avoided . |
| 7 | The cost of developing new generations of chip technology are so high that collaboration is increasingly the order of the day , and Advanced Micro Devices Inc and Hewlett-Packard Co have decided to join forces on the development of logic process technology to enable the production of microprocessors with 5m to 10m transistors on a single chip by 1995 . |
| 8 | Charlie Mears , the bank clerk , however , is more usually a secondrate poet who does not understand the value of his ‘ dreams ’ , scorning to think of them in terms of actual reincarnations , though these dreams are so vivid that reality and unreality seem mixed . |
| 9 | Although this example takes the point to an extreme , I have noticed that many people mistakenly use flowers that are so big that there' is barely room for them in the frame , and therefore the finished miniature is not as full of detail , nor as interesting , as a larger picture would be . |
| 10 | Sometimes their life stories are so unusual that truth is stranger than fiction . |
| 11 | Rarely has it been so clear that freedom is indivisible , and that attacks on one set of civil liberties are likely to be a part of a projected destruction of all such freedoms . |
| 12 | It 's been so wet that seed company 's say there wo n't be enough high quality grain to provide next year 's seed . |
| 13 | We 're very concerned that justice should be done . |
| 14 | Never has it been more important that News At Ten provide a big prime-time audience . |
| 15 | The practicalities of service of the Summons , entering appearance , lodging Defences and so forth , are usually such that consideration of tactics can not be undertaken until the Adjustment Period is fixed . |
| 16 | I am deeply concerned that Parliament — and indeed the Government — has lost , or is close to losing , effective control of the public purse … |
| 17 | Leeds are also confident that Aussie Test forward Mark Geyer will be in their pack in early September . |
| 18 | Some people are also concerned that water beds are too heavy for some floors , but this is practically never the case as the weight of the water is evenly distributed over a large area . |
| 19 | Scientists are also concerned that pest and disease populations may develop resistance to chemicals , or that the application of some chemicals may cause environmental damage . |
| 20 | Given the colonial context it should not be altogether surprising that literacy experts have rejected the use of indigenous languages to propagate education . |
| 21 | We must , in , be constantly aware that correlation , a systematic relationship between two variables X and Y , does not imply causation ; it may be that a change in a characteristic or variable X causes a change in another variable Y , it might be that a change in Y causes a change in X , it might be that they both affect each other , or it might be that neither affects the other , but that a change in a further variable , Z , is responsible for the changes in both X and Y. |
| 22 | I used to do all sorts of other jobs to keep going — I used to be so confident that work was round the corner that when I became a cellarman in a wine shop , I said to my family , ‘ Of course , I 'll only be here for a week or two , you know , ’ and a year later I was still there . |
| 23 | They would be so disappointed that Dad would feel the necessity to ‘ have a word ’ . |
| 24 | However , if the sun were to shrink until it was only a few miles across , the bending would be so great that light leaving the sun would not get away but would be dragged back by the sun 's gravitational field . |
| 25 | The gravitational field of the singularity would be so strong that light could not escape from the region around it but would be dragged back by the gravitational field . |
| 26 | Indeed , competition may be so fierce that pricing is based on a Contribution basis , that is , covering variable costs and only a proportion of the business ' fixed costs . |
| 27 | It must not be so different that unity is destroyed , or so similar that it gives no feeling of change . |
| 28 | This turned out to be so popular that production was taken over by the English parent company , leaving the colonial off-shoot to resume its original project . |
| 29 | For example , the power controls can be so sensitive that heat can be regulated by degree . |
| 30 | Although it appears to be generally true that erosion is concentrated on the more exposed portions of the coast , one occasionally finds examples of marked marine erosion in extremely sheltered positions . |