Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] that [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was rather glad that Araminta would be some way removed from him , and reflected that cold water might be no bad thing . |
| 2 | Rousseau was keenly aware that majority decisions , or even unanimous ones , are not necessarily right — right , that is , not only according to the moral criteria of any particular individual but from the point of view of the good of the community itself . |
| 3 | He wanted to touch June more than she wanted to be touched and he was bitterly upset that June was rejecting him sexually . |
| 4 | It was most appropriate that Bill Gill and his wife Mary were present at the ceremony . |
| 5 | Tonight the Cheltenham and Gloucester building society issued a statement saying it was most unfortunate that Miss Henderson and her children are the victims . |
| 6 | Throughout all of this ‘ experiment with externally planned and controlled political change ’ ( Ward 1968 p.483 ) the US occupation was acutely aware that attitudes and social practices had to change , as institutional change alone would not be sufficient to maintain the substance , as opposed to the form of liberal democracy . |
| 7 | For he was acutely aware that Ubaldo Valesio had waited in that bar , used that phone , and then walked out of that door , got into his car and never come back . |
| 8 | He was so close that Polly could feel his body warmth and smell the soap he had used that morning . |
| 9 | His grey moustache bristled ; he was so close that Loretta could make out the individual hairs . |
| 10 | A week after the hit-and-run , Seth was so drunk that police were able to determine he was drunk in charge while he sat idling his Vette in front of a friend 's house . |
| 11 | It was so effective that Suki was ranked fourth in the world back in the early 80s . |
| 12 | Rose 's voice was so dry that Léonie kept quiet . |
| 13 | His coverall was already dry , and the sun was so warm that Rostov was glad of the minimal shade provided by the trees . |
| 14 | Next morning the ward was so hectic that Juliet was glad she had a half-day , and relieved that she could go to Nigel 's party without having to persuade someone to change shifts with her . |
| 15 | Perhaps all that makes it easier to understand why Orwell was so anxious that Waugh should read his books : anxious enough to send him copies , though to a stranger . |
| 16 | The Lowther mines round Workington had made their owner the ‘ richest commoner in England ’ ; and Appleby School was so good that George Washington 's brothers were sent there from Virginia to be educated , and he very nearly followed them himself . |
| 17 | Water was so scarce that lawn-sprinkling in the suburbs became a criminal offence . |
| 18 | He was so sure that Barney was his man , even though the evidence against him was n't strong enough to arrest him , that he 'd had the cheek to warn him off . |
| 19 | Sarazen was so sure that Daniels had been the key to his win that he asked for the old boy to be with him when he was presented with the claret jug , saying it was a ‘ team victory ’ . |
| 20 | I think it still is the way forward and I do n't think it was so much that things went wrong as that they did n't go as well as we had hoped for the women elections to the shadow cabinet . |
| 21 | He was so small that Sir Dermot 's old suits had to go through considerable abbreviations and pinchings-in before they fitted him . |
| 22 | The force of the decompression was so great that Captain Tim Lancaster was sucked from his seat and dashed against the outside of the aircraft . |
| 23 | By 1971 , the tension was so great that Kapwepwe broke with Kaunda and formed the United People 's Party ( UPP ) which depended on a flimsy alliance between the Bemba and other tribal groups who at that time felt they were out in the political cold . |
| 24 | In short , the obsession with blaming all the supposed ills of the modern world on to the Jews which common to these groups was so great that coherence and intellectual consistency were often disregarded . |
| 25 | The shock was so great that Luce was past telling him anything . |
| 26 | The idea was to start a volunteer counselling service for adult victims of incest and abuse , but the response to Christine 's appeal was so great that ICAIRR is now struggling to cope with the demands on its services . |
| 27 | The emotional fervour in support of Saddam Hussein amongst Palestinians living in the occupied territories was so great that Arafat was largely compelled to reject the pro-Western line . |
| 28 | I corrected it and the hook was so violent that people on adjoining fairways dived for cover . |
| 29 | Visibility was so poor that Defries could hardly see the runway in front of her . |
| 30 | I am certain that , in those days , the quality of food was so poor that eating was probably hazardous . |