Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] that [num] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had been so dry that two days under the warm sun had been enough without letting it stand in stooks or draping it on the hedges . |
| 2 | At their disposal were a ludicrously inadequate army and an administrative machine so primitive that one observer in the early eighteenth century alleged that the tiny Italian city-state of Lucca possessed a larger civil service than they . |
| 3 | She was 5ft 4in ( ’ though I could make myself 5ft 5in ’ ) , had a 23in waist ( ’ yes , I was a normal girl ’ ) , and could kick so high that two legs became a straight line . |
| 4 | The crash was so violent that one coach was flung into a nearby street . |
| 5 | Is the situation so serious that twenty-four hour care must be considered , whether the person is at home or considering going in to a residential home ? |
| 6 | Nails kicked the bicycle rack so hard that two bikes fell out . |
| 7 | The swords met again in another violent discharge of magic and , at the same time , Lio ! rt brought his other hand down against Rincewind 's head , jarring him so hard that one foot jerked out of its ring and flailed desperately . |
| 8 | They are collectively responsible for appointments , making it less likely that one person will be unreasonably held to blame if anything goes wrong . |
| 9 | The attendance was so large that five overflow halls had to be used . |
| 10 | The scale of the enterprise is so large that fourteen nations combine their efforts at this single lab . |
| 11 | It is highly likely that one corner , edge or the centre of the object you have just drawn will need to be lined up with a corner , edge or centre of one or more of the objects already on the screen . |
| 12 | The demand for carnivores like the Venus Fly Trap and Sundew is so great that one nursery alone now stocks thirty thousand plants . |
| 13 | Predictably , the Koons exhibit dominated attention at a festival that included work from scores of internationally renowned , but less flashy artists , and even proved so provocative that one fanatic ended up slashing each painting with a knife , some four months after the show opened . |
| 14 | After three months of this slow starvation , one of the boys told the others he was so hungry that one night he might eat the boy who slept next to him . |
| 15 | It is extremely probable that nine days later they would have been part of the 1000 Bomber Raid on Cologne . |
| 16 | This combination was so successful that one dealer exclaimed indignantly ‘ These prices are what I would charge myself . ’ |
| 17 | Although this size is larger than those granules advocated in Chronic Diseases ( 200 to a grain ) they are still so small that one drop of the alcoholic LM 1 liquid can completely wet at least 500 of them . |
| 18 | I was so worried that one evening I went to see Dr Sambataro . |
| 19 | And he says that is why he finds it so galling that one episode in the new series has trees growing right up to the line , which would never happen and describes how one of the engines used to stop to enjoy the view . |
| 20 | So special that three months later they were engaged . |
| 21 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 22 | This double-green is so huge that two men walking seven miles each , up and down , take 1½ hours to mow it . |
| 23 | But if he suffers to this extent by comparison with Barth , he towers over most other theologians of his generation ; and it is more than a little sad that two men so gifted and with so much in common should not have managed to remain closer to each other . |
| 24 | His defence had maintained that Richman was totally unaware that 3 trolleys loaded on to his lorry in Holland contained cannabis . |
| 25 | The Guild members were not asked about birth control in the questionnaire that elicited these letters , so it is all the more surprising that twenty women volunteered the information that they either used or approved of contraception . |
| 26 | It is also possible that one organization adopts all five simultaneously ! |
| 27 | As Buckley LJ said in Gillespie v Bowles : it is a fundamental consideration in the construction of contracts of this kind that it is inherently improbable that one party to the contract should intend to absolve the other party from the consequences of the latter 's own negligence . |
| 28 | I have always been a little concerned that one day direct entry will cease entirely . |
| 29 | It is now clear that HGT-1 cells resemble parietal cells in possessing H 2 receptors and specific omeprazole binding sites ( presumably H + , K + -ATPase units ) . |
| 30 | Is he now aware that four centres , including the Walkden centre in my constituency , will close next month and that alternative provision is not yet available and will not be available ? |