Example sentences of "be [vb pp] [adv] [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 2 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 3 | Their vents are pressed together so that the sperm can make its way into the female . |
| 4 | Preference shares usually carry a right to fixed dividends , but if on any dividend payment date Newco has insufficient distributable profits to meet these , they are rolled forward so that the shares may accrue a right to a premium , representing rolled-up dividends , payable on redemption . |
| 5 | Divided plants will take hold of the soil and grow new roots more quickly if they are replanted so quickly that the plant hardly knows it has been out of the ground . |
| 6 | It has recently been argued very convincingly that the Cenomanian transgression can be blamed On a pulse of rapid ocean-floor spreading with the expansion of the mid-ocean ridges and consequent displacement of water . |
| 7 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 8 | Even if several mouse embryos are pushed together so that they fuse and this large mass transferred back into a mother a normal mouse will still develop . |
| 9 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 10 | As for the Socialists , they have been told so often that they are heading for a total rout that they will actually be relieved if they manage to get the 20 per cent which the last polls were predicting . |
| 11 | Words such as peto contentus sis seem to have been used so widely that they soon raised no doubts or difficulties of interpretation . |
| 12 | In superimposed profiles the sections are drawn completely so that parts of the later profiles below the first are also drawn . |
| 13 | The advantage of this form of key is that several different characters are compared together so that if one or more is missing , closeness of fit to the list can be used to gain an identification . |
| 14 | The monies are invested overseas so that there is a Case IV or V source of income . |
| 15 | Very common words , and particularly the short common words , are recognised so readily that we do not always look at them when reading text . |
| 16 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |
| 17 | In contrast , in smaller and more informal gatherings such as house Masses , the power this can release has often been experienced so impressively that one wonders whether the new liturgy was not given to the Church prophetically , with a view to new circumstances which were to come , but which till now have been realized only unevenly . |
| 18 | This suggests that the feeling of difficulty may be strongest with people whose incomes are stretched so tightly that they have to use credit for some needed purchases which they could not afford otherwise . |
| 19 | The two are interfaced together so that queries that are primarily spatial can also access the attribute data , and vice-versa . |
| 20 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 21 | They invited me down to Cincinnati , Ohio , to observe networked computing — or personal computers which are linked together so that information can be transferred from one to another . |
| 22 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 23 | This will have to be calculated carefully so that you know how many stitches to cast on . |
| 24 | Alternatively , the prices could be adjusted somehow so that they met total costs . |
| 25 | In this case , the figure may be adjusted downwards so that it may more easily be achieved , especially when commission payments are based on the full achievement of sales target or quota . |
| 26 | Each session must be planed ahead so that no time is wasted in the session trying to find and decide what to do . |
| 27 | Let it be stressed once more that these comments do not by any means apply universally . |
| 28 | Amateur theatre flourishes almost everywhere , and when you 're beginning it can not be stressed too strongly that it is desirable to obtain some actual stage experience before jumping into the big pool of drama school , or even summer school . |
| 29 | Thus it can not be stressed too strongly that the process of transforming publicly available information artefacts into information that is directly usable with minimal resource expenditure by the strategic decision maker is almost always a very difficult and demanding job requiring a considerable amount of intelligence , training and expertise . |
| 30 | It can not be stressed too strongly that the police in a democracy have a positive duty to facilitate the enjoyment of freedoms . |