Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [adv] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The only one of the three daughters around was Dorothy , who acted as our guide and mentor and came with us , first on a visit to Speight 's Brewery which was memorable for the guide , who delivered her monologue in a deadpan voice and an accent so broad that even Dorothy had trouble understanding it , heaven knows what all the Japanese tourists made of it ! — and second , on the Taieri Gorge railway , an afternoon 's ride up into Central Otago , with stops along the way . |
| 2 | At this point Antonio enters , and Shylock instantly switches to verse in an aside to us : This is a crucial moment , revealing to us alone at this point his real hatred , so strong that only verse can express it . |
| 3 | In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation . |
| 4 | The means test is now being set so low that only people who are unemployed or have incomes near benefit levels will be able to obtain free legal help . |
| 5 | My heart grew sick and I could n't eat , a phenomenon so strange that even Father noticed and asked what was wrong . |
| 6 | His younger days saw him helping with cubs and scouts and he 's is so popular that already residents and storekeepers from the villages have started a fund to help him' |
| 7 | It is therefore entirely appropriate that today Pompeii still represents the cutting edge of archaeological research and development . |
| 8 | Many were so appalling that even Himmler had been known to walk out of the showings , sick to the stomach . |
| 9 | The deal was so simple that even Reagan could understand it . |
| 10 | At that moment Mr Sowerberry returned and , hearing what had happened ( according to the ladies ) , he beat Oliver so hard that even Mr Bumble and Mrs Sowerberry were satisfied . |
| 11 | Jupiter orbits the Sun well beyond the orbit of Mars , and though the solar radiation at Jupiter is about 25 times less than at the Earth , Jupiter is so large that only Venus , and Mars at the most favourable oppositions , outshine Jupiter in our skies . |
| 12 | In the bathroom , Donna had segued clumsily from ‘ I could have danced all night ’ to ‘ I 'm getting married in the morning ’ , her attempts at a Cockney accent so ludicrous that normally Alex would have been falling about . |
| 13 | But all the messages that the parliaments of women busily exchanged among themselves stuck at one figure whom their spate of stories , their laughter and malice , could n't break down or wash away , a special kind of other woman , a figure so pitiful and so ludicrous that even jokes could n't make her situation spicy , and yet she outnumbered all others , because so many men had gone away alone , to America , both North and South . |
| 14 | When a Hollywood genre — in this case , the ‘ action-packed ’ buddy movie — becomes so tired that even Hollywood realizes it , their solution is simple : just reverse the formula until that becomes the formula . |
| 15 | There were some reports so confidential that even Jean might not see them ; they were better kept at home . |
| 16 | Deep down the heat and pressure are so great that even hydrogen is a metallic liquid . ’ |
| 17 | The turn of the conversation was so unexpected that even Mr Cottle tuned in to hear the outcome . |
| 18 | The private money and foreign contributions were handled by a network of cut-outs and dummy companies so complicated that even North had trouble keeping track of it . |
| 19 | Elizabeth 's distress had been so evident that even Lydia felt bound to take it seriously . |
| 20 | The market for engines in Cornwall was so important that eventually Boulton & Watt employed a very able engineer called William Murdock who was permanently based in Cornwall supervising the erection of their engines . |
| 21 | The idea of the fat old cattle dealer emerging as a romantic possibility was so preposterous that even Moran smiled . |
| 22 | Outside London , cities are so small that only Birmingham , Bristol , Exeter , Newcastle , York and Norwich have more than ten thousand residents . |
| 23 | They were so accurate that frequently bees were ready and waiting when the experimenters arrived to refill the sugar solution . |
| 24 | He looked so downcast that even Angalo patted him on the shoulder . |
| 25 | Say is so eloquent that even Cade feels remorse ( 104f. ) , but still has him killed . |
| 26 | With help … ’ and her whispered words were so quiet that only Creggan and Kraal heard them . |
| 27 | The burst took ten seconds because a dying star 's core is so dense that even neutrinos bang into things on their way out . |
| 28 | North Korea 's Prime Minister Yon Hyong Muk stepped across a border normally so secure that neither letters nor telephone calls are allowed through . |
| 29 | No thought of any homework , and it was patently obvious that only Imran Khan and Javed Mianded seemed to be recognisable down there . |
| 30 | But , if there were some actions of censorship against plays which had been able to secure licences , it is also true that neither Elizabeth nor the Stuarts possessed the developed civil service or police force which could regulate every performance . |