Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] [conj] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 2 | All of us there were so stunned that a man of such high standing in the golf world could be so uncaring . |
| 3 | This was in 1785 and by then the major mines were so deep that a ladder climb to the surface could take an hour . |
| 4 | In fact the man 's examination of his papers was so cursory that a lot of Hapsburg ingenuity had evidently been wasted . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 7 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 8 | Demand was so great that a commentary of the programmes was published . |
| 9 | The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised . |
| 10 | The controversy was so deep that an appeal was made to Rome by the combatants . |
| 11 | He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The yacht was so new that a price has yet to be established . |
| 16 | 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 ’ . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The ice was so thick that an elephant was able to walk down it — and did . |