Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] that [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 2 | Maybe so , but there is good and bad , effective and ineffective propaganda , and , as Nizan himself was acutely aware , the technical problems associated with injecting ideology and politics into literature were so enormous that only the most adroit , the most cunning of revolutionary writers would be successful in creating an effective balance between ideological effect and aesthetic technique . |
| 3 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 4 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 5 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |
| 6 | The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger . |
| 7 | And everything about her , her long nightdress and the mist she was held in , was so golden-red that even the dark gold skin of her lovely face had a reddish tinge to it . |
| 8 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 9 | The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone . |
| 10 | His good humour was so infectious that even the fräulein managed a wan smile . |