Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] great [was/were] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And so great was the uproar and confusion , that few there were who took arms , but instead thereof they turned their backs and fled toward the sea . |
| 2 | And so great was the love of the people for Elvis that they made many laws . |
| 3 | The stockings they knitted went on to the feet of the British Army , and so great was the demand and so determinedly was it met that the Romantic writer Southey called them the " Terrible Knitters of Dent " , terrible meaning not bad but fierce , terribly good . |
| 4 | As more swifts swung over the warm evening sky outside she got increasingly agitated and so great was the sound her clashing talons and lunging beak and wild wings made that all the other birds of prey in the Cages grew restless as well . |
| 5 | After an appropriate opening , it was addressed by the pope , but so great was the crowd that one reporter could not hear the content of the speech and there appear to have been several fatal accidents in the crush . |
| 6 | But so great was the gulf between the righteousness of God and the depravity of man that the hope of salvation , made possible by the obedient and sacrificial death of Christ , was ultimately dependent upon divine rather than human initiatives . |