Example sentences of "[noun pl] were so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With help … ’ and her whispered words were so quiet that only Creggan and Kraal heard them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 4 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ Gervase would not ask the way , and the street lamps were so few and far between that it was impossible to use our map . |
| 7 | The Federation was , in any case , the undisputed representative of the Left at the Universities and the Labour Party would have been ill-advised to disaffiliate it while its opinions were so popular and widely accepted . |
| 8 | In the years immediately following 1945 , however , foreign exchange markets were so disrupted and so strongly under the control of government that the post-war government could establish its own internal programme while relatively insulated from international financial forces . |
| 9 | William Dale claims the honour of being the first to reproduce it accurately in his Tschudi the harpsichord maker of 1913 : previous reproductions were so murky as almost to obliterate the harpsichord . |
| 10 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 11 | Planners there began to ask why it was that their residential streets were so dull and so unsafe , and why it was impossible to do anything else there except drive cars , even though most of the time there were no moving cars . |
| 12 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 13 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |