Example sentences of "[adv] that the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The roof , which is stripped of tiles , provides the water-supply ; the chimney smokes so thickly that the opposite wall is barely visible ; the few remaining window-panes are stained and the majority are stuffed with rags and paper . |
| 2 | Here , as in the comparable case of the beginnings of hunting , no traumatic consequences have previously been suspected ; but it is my view that the transition to cultivation from hunting and gathering was indeed traumatic , both socially and psychologically , and furthermore that the complex details of this secondary trauma , while recapitulating many elements of the first , also anticipated many later ones , including that at the root of our modern malaise . |
| 3 | Much better that the simpler jobs be handled by word processors with intelligent formatting systems while leaving the complex work to those trained to handle it . |
| 4 | ( Who knows , they may even enjoy a book so much that the next time the author is published they may even buy it at full price ! ) |
| 5 | She could tell that Dr Neil was looking at her most sceptically , although he was touching her so gently that the black fear which she had felt before she had fainted did not return — and pooh to his suspicions ! |
| 6 | Notice especially that the definite article may be one such further selecting qualifier . |
| 7 | I checked that the bomb was all right , especially that the white crystals of the explosive mixture were dry , then added a plastic-straw fuse and a charge of the explosive around the hole bored in the black pipe and taped everything up . |
| 8 | In Blackpool , evidence mounts daily that the Conservative Party has rejected Thatcherism . |
| 9 | In fact , it will be argued below that the rational expectations hypothesis , the target of so many misdirected Keynesian barbs , may be combined with a model which does not assume market clearing in such a way as to allow considerable scope for discretionary demand management policies . |
| 10 | Some girls — Felicity Grant , for instance — would have found it impossible to make a speech like that , but Breeze , frank in all her undertakings , said it so naturally that the old doctor took it quite as a matter of course . |
| 11 | He had indicated already he wished her to stay in the house for the night , and she knew well enough that the continued presence of her widowed mother and four brothers in the servants ' quarters in the rear compound depended on her strict obedience to all the wishes of the plantation director in his house . |
| 12 | The people of Stamford were passionately anxious that the railway should come their way , for it was plain enough that the great coaching trade , by which they lived , was doomed . |
| 13 | We assume that it is enough that the new way will prove better than the old way once it has been tried for some time . |
| 14 | For the purposes of the Conservative Party conference , it was enough that the Prime Minister and the Chancellor of the Exchequer denied the existence of an alternative economic strategy . |
| 15 | The large presence at the start was proof enough that the overall standard of squash in this country is at its highest-ever level . |
| 16 | A project is a project , he wrote , and once it is begun it should be carried through to the end , regardless of doubts about meaning , doubts about long runs , or doubts about anything else , unless the body screams for you to stop , of course one can not go on for long against the screaming of the body , but then that merely means one has miscalculated , it merely means one has begun too soon or too late or perhaps that the entire project was a miscalculation . |
| 17 | Could I say that we 'd be willing perhaps that the Conservative amendment first of all , and then to turn to the amendment by the Liberal democrats erm I would like to suggest that schools or other charities , not just schools are exempt from any registration charge but will still notify the local authority in , in advance of an event , because events held at schools or by charities still create problems with traffic and parking and congestion |
| 18 | Feeling stunned as that truth hit her , she almost gasped out loud that the whole evening had gone by , a whole evening , and she 'd barely asked so much as one of the questions Cara had primed her with ! |
| 19 | The truth is that there are disagreeable aspects to nearly all work ; that what is regarded as disagreeable in work will vary from person to person and , within one person , from mood to mood ; and that , in the end , the distinction to be made is simply but none the less crucially that the disagreeable features are more readily tolerated when the worker is working for himself than when he is working for someone else . |
| 20 | We are interested in the notion of affordability , not in the notion of means testing and we recognise crucially that the public sector provides an opportunity for people . |
| 21 | Or you can rewrite the sentence so that the plural pronoun is used : Readers will find their expectations satisfied . |
| 22 | ‘ Counterfeiting techniques have become highly sophisticated and in many cases the packaging has been copied to the finest degree so that the ordinary consumer would have absolutely no idea , from the outside , that they were n't buying the genuine article , ’ explains Mike Wadsley . |
| 23 | The company will be managed so that the ordinary shares will qualify for inclusion in a general personal equity plan . |
| 24 | The capitalist world-system is viewed as all-embracing so that the internal structure of each nation 's economy is of secondary importance in explaining developments . |
| 25 | It is a thick worm , pinkish when fresh , and the cuticle is rather transparent so that the internal organs can be seen . |
| 26 | We also know that when a new layer arrived , it was not deposited simultaneously all over the preceding layer , it was unrolled from one side or the other , so that the actual contact was progressive rather than synchronous . |
| 27 | The OCU also operated the T.4s which were on the strength of the flying squadrons so that the actual complement was almost double this meagre total . |
| 28 | Instead an exponential distribution is used , so that the actual arrival time of the next vehicle is x seconds after the previous vehicle , where x is a random variable sampled from an exponential distribution with a mean of r seconds . |
| 29 | The bulbs ' internal circuitry alters the mains current so that the actual load placed on the grid is larger than that recorded on consumers ' electricity meters . |
| 30 | The theorem of minimum potential energy then applies , so that the actual strain energy in the mixture is less than or equal to that of any unequilibrated state of distortion with the same surface displacements . |