Example sentences of "[was/were] so hard that " in BNC.

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1 Although some skins claimed that they were so hard that they did not need to use weapons , and there was no standard personal armament like the cut-throat razors of the teds or the bicycle chains of the grebos , a variety of weapons were used at football matches and other fights .
2 Many were so hard that they seemed to be made of solid wood while others shattered like eggshells , but were virtually empty .
3 But I knocked you to the floor , and the blow was so hard that it made my hand throb for hours afterwards .
4 The frost was so hard that everything went steel grey — the ground , the water and the sky .
5 After a year it was so hard that Chola and Mina had to hack it out with adzes .
6 The force of the impact was so hard that both prisoners broke their arm .
7 The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone .
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