Example sentences of "were so [adj] [conj] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 2 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 3 | Bankruptcy stared the Nazis in the face , and for a while they were so desperate that they actually considered introducing the zloty as a way of stabilising the currency and restoring calm . |
| 4 | Anti-Nazi League festivals , at which The Stranglers were so familiar that everyone probably thought they were just park trees . |
| 5 | But the directors of the museum at that time were so insensitive that they actually discouraged her generous offer . |
| 6 | The Puritan missionaries thought the heathens did n't deserve to exist and the heathens were so compliant that they duly dwindled towards extinction . |