Example sentences of "[adj] [that] it [vb past] [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 | 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 . |
| 4 | The room , painted a white so fresh that it seemed pale blue , was cool and soothing . |
| 5 | Very soon , even before they went under dome , Arcady surrounded them from horizon to horizon , its size so prodigious that it banished all Ari 's ideas of what a city might be . |
| 6 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 7 | A police officer said his corpse was so charred and mutilated that it took more than an hour to identify it . |
| 8 | Out of the rock 's foot grew a shadow so dark that it contained all colours . |
| 9 | The building was so perfect that it became fantastic , and we imagined a huge finger coming from the sky and pressing on the dome . |
| 10 | The children had heard this song many times but they were always sad that it sounded such a lonely song . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The bid-ask spread was so large that it converted significant profits into significant losses . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It is interesting and perhaps unusual that it developed first in politics but now is used more and more in commerce and industry . |
| 15 | The voice was so absent and tired that it took some of the chill from the words . |
| 16 | I am confident that it contributed more than anything else to my recovery . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The thought of it had been impossible for so long that it took some getting used to . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His death was , on the contrary , so unexpected that it found several of the key political figures away from court . |
| 22 | His death was , on the contrary , so unexpected that it found several of the key political figures away from court . |
| 23 | He felt himself to be so uneducated that it seemed hopeless even to try to catch up with the ordinary things that people knew . |
| 24 | It was so successful that it replaced all other control methods and the insect ceased to be a major pest . |
| 25 | But he will have been worried that it took four fine saves from John Lukic to keep City out . |
| 26 | The trust is also worried that it took six weeks for the emergency stop-order to progress through the Whitehall 's bureaucracy . |
| 27 | Jo pulled nervously at the top of her dress ; it was also of satin , a pink so pale that it appeared white at first glance , swathed tightly around her long-waisted body and embroidered all over with pearls , brilliants and crumbs of coral . |
| 28 | Robin-Anne had her mother 's fair hair , so fair that it looked bleached , and she had her mother 's delicate good looks etched on to a face so pale that it seemed as though her skin must burn if it was exposed to anything more powerful than a light bulb . |
| 29 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 30 | Once , they exploded with a sound so terrifying that it brought all of us below instantly out on to the rain-drenched deck . |