Example sentences of "were [adv] [adj] that [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
| 2 | They were so successful that publication for retail sales began in 1934 . |
| 3 | They were so unhappy that life lost its perspective for them . ’ |
| 4 | Conditions were so bad that emergency crews were told it was too dangerous to try and restore power before daybreak . |
| 5 | In the case of plants , however , the means of dispersal were so prolific that theorizing became impossibly vague . |
| 6 | The Birkett committee of 1937 which examined the question of abortion was informed that many working-class women were not aware that abortion was illegal . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The researchers were already aware that choice of subject matter determined much of the degree of interest shown in any programme . |
| 9 | Although presented mainly as a measure of penal reform that was desirable for its own sake , officials were more sanguine that parole might lead to the hoped for reduction in the prison population than the dubious promise of the suspended sentence . |
| 10 | This was because the scientific elite of the Athenaeum , on whom the correspondents relied , were well aware that research on controlled thermonuclear reactions was already being furtively pursued in a few British laboratories . |
| 11 | Because the Codds have been used to tiller-steered boats , they were very keen that Sparkle be similarly equipped . |
| 12 | You were very quiet that term , different . |