Example sentences of "was [adv] so [adj] [conj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He leaned his forehead against the stone , and was suddenly so weary and so content that it seemed to him there was nothing left to be desired in life , and nothing more he need strive for . |
| 2 | But she was just so bubbly and so vivacious , and she looked so young despite being well over eighteen , that there was something almost right for her in the part . |
| 3 | My next trip was not so pleasant but nonetheless enlightening , It was with a scratch crew and an experienced navigator who , like myself , had returned to ops after a period in the training world , but also ( like myself ) utterly clueless about present day operations . |
| 4 | In several cases , internal funding was still so low that even £2,000 was equal to four or five years ' library capitation . |
| 5 | He told a packed lecture chamber at Strathclyde University that the increase in CO emissions was now so large that even if there were a 1 per cent reduction worldwide from 2000 , it would take 100 years for levels to stabilise in the atmosphere . |
| 6 | The rally I went to in Leicester in 1987 was neither so gross nor so damaging , but as a reasonably sympathetic onlooker , I was irritated by the frantic urgency and the artificial and inflated mood of tension , good for nobody 's judgment . |
| 7 | He replied , ‘ the unity of the masses with the party was never so strong as now . |