Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been copper dragons and dragons painted on porcelain so fine that light filtered through them and their colours seemed to change as you looked . |
| 2 | Wrecked cars and land raiders smouldered along the boulevard under a leaden ceiling so high that utility tubes and power cables seemed to be but a delicate tracery . |
| 3 | One in eight mortgage payers are in arrears because the Government have launched a drive towards home ownership so powerful that mobility of labour has suffered . |
| 4 | The judgment , for example , that the sample size is sufficient and the observed difference so great that chance may be dismissed can and should be made when one is confident that the decision is ‘ obvious ’ . |
| 5 | To my mind , it represents a change of use so significant that compensation should be given to those who suffer injury as a result . |
| 6 | Pictures formed in her mind of bloody-minded leading hands and a frowning chief telegraphist , all of them men and all of them waiting , grim-faced , for Bainbridge , L. V. to make her first mistake ; a mistake so terrible that talk of its consequences would reverberate around the Home Fleet for years to come . |
| 7 | It also seems likely that unemployment and other social problems contributed further to the view that Labour offered the only alternative to the failures of capitalism — no matter how illusory that viewpoint may have been . |
| 8 | The self-help suggestions as outlined in this book will help to increase your energy levels and restore a sense of harmony to your life , no matter how frenetic that life may be . |
| 9 | And no matter how minor that discovery is , there is a peculiar excitement about understanding some natural phenomenon for the first time . |
| 10 | Never using notes , he would sit on a table swinging his legs , his long underpants showing between his trousers and boots , or perch on a chair at an angle so perilous that disaster threatened . |
| 11 | Do you have any idea how extravagant that sister of mine is ? |
| 12 | Although the venue is hot and cramped , with a stage so small that audience and entertainers can stand nose to nose , clubbers cram in every week , straining its 300-person capacity . |