Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] [that] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even so , I was rather surprised that a family must pay 3.50 for adults and 2.50 for kids to visit and listen to the BBC 's exhibition of favourite old radio programmes at Broadcasting House . |
| 2 | It was most fortunate that a young Cambridge biologist called Mark Pryor was extricated by the powers that be from a searchlight unit and sent to Farnborough to take over this work . |
| 3 | In fact the man 's examination of his papers was so cursory that a lot of Hapsburg ingenuity had evidently been wasted . |
| 4 | The danger of a break through the northern end of the spit was so apparent that a sea wall was built along this section in 1890 . |
| 5 | The contemporary concern was so great that a Royal Commission on Population was set up in 1944 to examine the problem of Britain 's declining rate of population growth . |
| 6 | Demand was so great that a commentary of the programmes was published . |
| 7 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 8 | The risk involved in the defendants ' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them . |
| 9 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 10 | He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop . |
| 11 | Moreover , the supporters of Morgan add , this should not lead to unmeritorious acquittals , because juries will not allow bogus defences to succeed : in Morgan itself the House of Lords was satisfied that the basis for the defence was so weak that a correctly directed jury would have found the defendants guilty . |
| 12 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 13 | What proved particularly shocking in this instance was that the licensing of firearms was so haphazard that a 16-year-old Whitechapel youth , who had already stood trial on a charge of wounding his 16-year-old girlfriend with a revolver , could obtain a licence at a later date without even having to show proof of his age . |
| 14 | That might not have mattered unduly , but their early form was so ordinary that a lack of impact off the pitch was compounded by a comparable shortage of flair on it . |
| 15 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 16 | The yacht was so new that a price has yet to be established . |
| 17 | In the words of one of them , the background noise was so loud that a rifle shot sounded comparable to ‘ the popping of a champagne cork amid the hubbub of a banquet ’ . |
| 18 | His body ached mainly through lack of sleep , he told himself , reluctant to admit he was so unfit that a mile walk had drained him of energy . |
| 19 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 20 | In the event , the task was so large that a small group would not have been able to cope with it alone . |
| 21 | For many years , courts in the United States failed to understand the Latin American approach ; the failure was so fundamental that a plaintiff in a Latin American republic had no means of serving process on a defendant in the United States . |
| 22 | He had noted the recurrence of surnames among deaf people and deduced it was highly probable that a considerable proportion of deaf people in the country belonged to families which had more than one deaf member , and suspected that the reasons for this were hereditary . |
| 23 | Whatever her reasoning , I was greatly shocked that a woman of her achievements and reputation should stoop to such shabby fibbing . |
| 24 | But he was never saying to himself until one moment in the past that it was much peculiar that a girl as pretty and as fashionable with her peroxide hair as Jilly Jonathan was carrying on holiday a big , crocodile-skin handbag . |
| 25 | Nothing too outrageous … just the constant annoyance of fouls being called against Leeds when there were nt fouls and throws being given to West Ham unless it was patently obvious that a West Ham player kicked it off . |
| 26 | The ‘ development risks ’ defence is available where the defendant shows ‘ that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control . ’ |
| 27 | ( c ) Where the defendant can show that : " the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control " ( s. 4(1) ( e ) ) . |
| 28 | Section 4(1) ( e ) states as follows : ( e ) that the state of scientific and technical knowledge at the relevant time was not such that a producer of products of the same description as the product in question might be expected to have discovered the defect if it had existed in his products while they were under his control … |
| 29 | It was not surprising that a growing number of small farmers in the West Bank viewed the commission agents not only as too closely connected with Amman politically , but also as parasites upon their labour . |
| 30 | According to , corporate finance partner , it was not surprising that a quarter of all respondents said the recession had affected their consideration of an MBO . |