Example sentences of "were so [adj] [conj] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The scenes that followed were so piteous that even now , two days after , I tremble to recall them ; and the screams of the women and frightened children are with me day and night . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 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 | No one could find out why this apparently healthy young woman suffered symptoms which were so intense and yet so varied . |
| 5 | ‘ Gervase would not ask the way , and the street lamps were so few and far between that it was impossible to use our map . |