Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] that [art] [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 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 3 | All of us there were so stunned that a man of such high standing in the golf world could be so uncaring . |
| 4 | It was almost two years since then , but the scents in her nostrils were so evocative that every detail of that occasion came sharply into her mind . |
| 5 | This was in 1785 and by then the major mines were so deep that a ladder climb to the surface could take an hour . |
| 6 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |
| 7 | The ditch sides were so slippy that every time the frog jumped 2m up the side of the ditch , it slipped back down 1m . |
| 8 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 9 | West Germany 's contingent in the European Army was restricted in size and in the types of weapons it could use , and the guarantees against German misbehaviour were so ornate that the EDC treaty had more than 150 articles . |
| 10 | Her clothes were so fashionable that the country people would have noticed her . |
| 11 | By 3 p.m. , the explosions were so loud that they were audible 240 kilometres away ; by 5 p.m. they were so stupendous that the sound was carrying all over Java . |
| 12 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 13 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 14 | In 1828 , for example , when Coleman was sadly in need of an operating theatre , the various builders ' estimates were so high that the project was abandoned ‘ for the time being ’ . |
| 15 | Does he have any figures to support his claim that , in some parts of the country , such campaigns were so vigorous that the Department had to take action ? |
| 16 | Folly tried to flinch away , but he was so close that every movement seemed to bring him closer . |
| 17 | ‘ The missile was so close that the warning system in the cab illuminated and fired off defensive flares , ’ he said . |
| 18 | In fact the man 's examination of his papers was so cursory that a lot of Hapsburg ingenuity had evidently been wasted . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The silence was so total that the auditorium might have been empty . |
| 21 | Even Einstein , when he formulated the general theory of relativity in 1915 , was so sure that the universe had to be static that he modified his theory to make this possible , introducing a so-called cosmological constant into his equations . |
| 22 | She was smaller than Jenna with none of Jenna 's slender , willowy height , but she was so healthy-looking that the fact in itself gave her an added attraction . |
| 23 | For a moment or two she sat watching a breeze ruffle the calm surface of the hotel pool — the bright blue water was so inviting that the moment you got out you wanted to get straight back in again . |
| 24 | I ca n't remember now whether in fact we were allowed any at all while we were in the Waaf , but I know that for the few years after I became a civilian again and clothes rationing still went on , the ration allocation was so small that the prospect of buying , for instance , a new winter coat was exceedingly small for most women , especially those with children , whose needs had to come first . |
| 25 | Demand was so great that a commentary of the programmes was published . |
| 26 | The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised . |
| 27 | After the first men were made , it relates , the noise of their many children was so great that the god of the earth could not sleep . |
| 28 | The impact was so great that the effect of it was to remain with me in the months ahead and give me strength when I most needed it . |
| 29 | But , although we had tested it during the day , the drop in the temperature at night was so great that the oil in the mechanism became sluggish and thick . |
| 30 | There was one occasion when he went into a café and asked for tea and then while he waited he suddenly saw a solution to a theological argument which he had with Leslie Owen the warden , and his waving of hands was so convulsive that the café refused to serve him with the tea . |