Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] so [adj] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 2 | He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest . |
| 3 | In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation . |
| 4 | I could only conclude she was now so weak that not just her body , her mind also had come totally under the Monster 's control . |
| 5 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |