Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , when , finally , she did emerge from her curtain cubicle to face the other girls , they took it very well , for they could afford to be charitable , and they were secretly glad that Clara 's style was cramped , for without some handicap she would have been a more serious threat . |
| 2 | So th- people were most concerned that women 's morale should be kept up and that one should should n't worry too much . |
| 3 | ‘ People were extremely disappointed that conservationists could not come up with exciting positive solutions for potential land that might come out of agriculture , ’ says Miss Appleby . |
| 4 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
| 5 | These new compounds were often specific for a particular kind of leukaemia , and sometimes they were so effective that remissions appeared to be permanent . |
| 6 | Seats were so scarce that people killed each other to get them . |
| 7 | Elsie and Edith Port were so alike that Jennie dosed the wrong one with her cure for all ailments — castor oil . |
| 8 | Even in summer , when the grounds and gardens were so warm that Frankie could lie stark naked in the long grass , the house was dark and uncomfortably cold , especially on the big stairs . |
| 9 | They were so successful that publication for retail sales began in 1934 . |
| 10 | Two of the cuts on her cheek were so deep that doctors could see her bone . |
| 11 | Two of the cuts on her cheek were so deep that doctors could see her bone . |
| 12 | They were so unhappy that life lost its perspective for them . ’ |
| 13 | The two metal coffee jugs were so hot that Cormack dropped them with a yelp . |
| 14 | His uniform was immaculate , but paraded no medals , and the creases on his trousers were so sharp that Charlie wondered if they had ever been worn before . |
| 15 | •The letters and telephone calls were so numerous that Curtis Strange feels he owes golf fans an apology for an outburst of profanity , inadvertently picked up by a television microphone during an American event this summer . |
| 16 | On Saturdays , after dinner , concerts of classical music were so popular that artists sat on the floor or perched on tables to listen . |
| 17 | A lot of them , of course , were so secret that Mr Marr could n't even show them to me . |
| 18 | This general pattern of growth was subject to regional variation and was punctuated by devastating epidemics — of which bubonic plague was only the most notorious — and by harvest failures that were so catastrophic that people died of starvation . |
| 19 | Floating pumice fields were so thick that sailors could walk on them — and some bore bleaching human remains 4,500 miles across the Indian Ocean to deposit them along the beaches of Zanzibar . |
| 20 | The results of the pilot programme ( based on the ability of the mothers to recall what they had been taught two weeks previously ) were so promising that BRAC launched a programme to teach the method of preparing LGS to every household in the country over a period of about ten years . |
| 21 | The song and their laughter were so infectious that Corbett joined in . |
| 22 | Conditions were so bad that emergency crews were told it was too dangerous to try and restore power before daybreak . |
| 23 | In the case of plants , however , the means of dispersal were so prolific that theorizing became impossibly vague . |
| 24 | If fines were so high that corporations went bankrupt , innocent employees , consumers , and dependents would suffer . |
| 25 | The levels were so heavy that people left Chilperic 's kingdom in order to avoid the taxes . |
| 26 | Perhaps because they were suddenly aware that Madrid could fall to the rebels at any moment , or perhaps because they felt more confident with a government which now included representatives of all the Popular Front forces and the anarchists , the Republican troops rallied at that point and managed to slow down the Army of Africa 's advance on the capital . |
| 27 | In the early seventies the first indications were already apparent that inflation might increase sharply , although we had not yet reached such runaway rates as 30 per cent . |
| 28 | LONG before England came such a cropper at Lansdowne Road , there were many besides the Scots among the British rugby fraternity who were already positive that Gavin Hastings would be revealed this morning as the Lions ' captain for the forthcoming tour of New Zealand . |
| 29 | The researchers were already aware that choice of subject matter determined much of the degree of interest shown in any programme . |
| 30 | The Poles , through Commissioner General Marian Chodacki , said that what went on to their stamps was their business , and they were genuinely mystified that Danzigers whose ancestors had risen up against the Teutonic Knights should feel offended by stamps that celebrated their victory . |