Example sentences of "had [be] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Snodgrass embarked on a story about a very famous jewel called the Koh-i-noor , which he thought had once adorned a great King 's State Crown and explained how it had been so rare and so heavy that it had had to be kept locked away behind bars and guards , so that nobody could steal it . |
| 2 | And the demand for jam jars had been so great that even salvage dumps and cemeteries had been searched for extra supplies . |
| 3 | Their lives had been so impoverished that even those elementary things had been taken from them . |
| 4 | Frustrating or what — it had been so faint and so brief . |
| 5 | This decision filled her with profound gloom ; not only because her home had been so special and so very much loved , but also because the selling of Rose Cottage could do nothing but plunge her into financial disaster . |
| 6 | Elizabeth 's distress had been so evident that even Lydia felt bound to take it seriously . |