Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those activities were so evidently a waste of spirit that Louisa had never understood how men were so easily lured by them . |
| 2 | As for my eidetic happenings , I found them suspect as well ; they were so clearly a product of my own fervid visual imagination . |
| 3 | Street-fighting and village brawls at football matches were so much a part of ‘ traditional ’ society that we tend to forget how relatively civilized modern social life has become . |
| 4 | It may be hard to reconcile the ideals of chivalry at Edward 's court with the burning , looting and killing which were so much a part of the campaigns the nobles fought in France , and difficult to argue that the idea of chivalry had any substantially mitigating effect on the horrors of war . |
| 5 | The lulling cushion of blood-heat saline solution I floated on did help me to neglect those bodily fears that were so much a part of me . |
| 6 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 7 | People thronged in the several outdoor cafés , while others sat in groups on the paving stones , enjoying the music , cans of Coke at their feet , slices of smørrebrød in their hands , while neatly stacked against the railings of the old houses with their terracotta- and gamboge-painted façades were the ubiquitous bicycles which were so much a part of the Danish travel scene . |
| 8 | Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ? |
| 9 | She started to say that to her this sounded more like Khrushchev , and she stopped herself again ; the line was so clearly a proffering of comfort . |
| 10 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 11 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 12 | He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him . |
| 13 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 14 | Even the presence of the very famous actor indeed who had undertaken the part of Macbeth was hardly noticed ; after all he was so much a part of the English scene as to be , very nearly , taken for granted , though his performance was , as always , brilliant . |
| 15 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 16 | Abrams argued that traditional neighbourliness will not survive and that its passing is not to be deplored , because it was so often a reaction to adverse social conditions . |