Example sentences of "[adv] that the [adj] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 ! |
| 3 | Notice especially that the definite article may be one such further selecting qualifier . |
| 4 | In Blackpool , evidence mounts daily that the Conservative Party has rejected Thatcherism . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The large presence at the start was proof enough that the overall standard of squash in this country is at its highest-ever level . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 ! |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Or you can rewrite the sentence so that the plural pronoun is used : Readers will find their expectations satisfied . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | interfaces be developed so that the range of spatial operations in a system can be organized into standardized functions or tasks , and so that the spatial database can be visualized . |
| 24 | The increase in the industrial trade deficit was partly compensated for by surpluses on services and tourism so that the current-account deficit remained small in relation to gross domestic product ( GDP ) ( under 0.4 per cent ) . |
| 25 | Throughout the Johannesburg commuter system , all station platforms were divided in half , for Whites and non-Whites respectively , and the trains were similarly divided so that the appropriate part stopped at the relevant stretch of platform . |
| 26 | It is essential that the parties to a takeover bid recognise their associates and that associates recognise their associated status so that the appropriate disclosure obligations can be complied with . |
| 27 | This is because ( 1 ) the future earnings of and dividend payments on shares are unknown and have to be forecast ; ( 2 ) there is no maturity date and hence no maturity value ; and ( 3 ) shares are the riskiest investments to hold , having the residual claim on the firm 's assets and the net income generated by these assets , so that the appropriate discount rate is very difficult to calculate . |
| 28 | The adoption of a particular recipe therefore avoids any ambiguity and uncertainty by allowing a situation to be typified so that the appropriate behaviour is known . |
| 29 | The Department of Health and Social Security should be notified immediately of your parent 's admission to hospital so that the appropriate adjustment to his or her State pension or other State benefits or allowances can be made , but the pension book should be retained . |
| 30 | The slogan at the back of the stage could be changed so that the appropriate place name could be inserted according to where we were . |