Example sentences of "was so [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that still leaves unanswered the more basic issue as to whether the whole Marxist enterprise was so wrong-headed that the economic and human failures were not , in some sense , built into the ideology . |
| 2 | As seen , Lord Greene M.R. in the Wednesbury case conceived of unreasonableness in its substantive sense , as a long stop and a fairly extreme one at that : if an exercise of discretion successfully negotiated the hurdles of improper purpose and relevancy it could still be invalidated on the altar of substantive unreasonableness if it was so unreasonable that no reasonable body could reach such a decision . |
| 3 | When the Jesuits were expelled from the city in September 1773 public resentment was so real that the entire garrison had to occupy key points and patrol the streets to maintain order . |
| 4 | I 'm sorry , ’ he repeated , and the smile he gave her was so gentle that the angry words she had been going to utter died , locked somewhere in her throat . |
| 5 | Gary Speed was close twice and when Deane looked like bullocking through , David Burrow 's tackle was so desperate that the left back was booked . |
| 6 | The risk involved in the defendants ' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them . |
| 7 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 8 | The contemporary concern was so great that a Royal Commission on Population was set up in 1944 to examine the problem of Britain 's declining rate of population growth . |
| 9 | The shock was so great that the young man catapulted forward , straight through the glass panel in the front door and right into the street outside . |
| 10 | The cost of human or animal-borne transport was so great that the economic viability of white farming rapidly declined as the distance from the station increased . |
| 11 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 12 | Even so , the tachyon signal was so faint that the neural net was having problems extrapolating a recognizable picture . |
| 13 | Initially used by Viv Richards , the Jumbo was so successful that the other manufacturers had to follow his lead by bringing out their own heavy bats . |
| 14 | Skytrain was so successful that the other airlines had to follow suit and offer passengers cheaper fares . |
| 15 | This experiment was so successful that the European Social Fund and the Department of Education and Science have jointly made available £750,000 for a further three-year training course , which started in 1989 . |
| 16 | This was intended to be a temporary measure , but it was so successful that the Chinese authorities gave it formal recognition for the whole of Aglen 's term as inspector-general ( 1911–27 ) . |
| 17 | Ill-feeling between the government and opposition was so serious that the National Assembly had been paralysed since convening in June , following the March 1992 general election . |
| 18 | The radioactivity to which they were exposed was so powerful that the dead men 's bodies were themselves a radiation hazard . |
| 19 | What proved particularly shocking in this instance was that the licensing of firearms was so haphazard that a 16-year-old Whitechapel youth , who had already stood trial on a charge of wounding his 16-year-old girlfriend with a revolver , could obtain a licence at a later date without even having to show proof of his age . |
| 20 | They had been challenging the sailing colliers for a number of years and the movement of coal was so important that the nautical press carried a daily feature and report on the coal trade . |
| 21 | In the event , the task was so large that a small group would not have been able to cope with it alone . |
| 22 | It was not actively hostile to the construction of owner-occupied stock , but its own intended programme was so large that the potential demand for such stock would have been much reduced . |
| 23 | Although the horn lent itself to delicate work and when finished had a smooth feel , its natural colour , yellow , mottled and streaked with grey , was so unattractive that the Chinese stained the objects they carved from it an artificial brown . |
| 24 | Only within the Parliamentary Labour Party was there an attempt at collective discipline and that was so loose that the Independent Labour Party was to maintain its right to direct its own members within the PLP as late as 1931 . |
| 25 | No one could go into his yard without a cane — which he appeared to be terrified of — and the viciousness he displayed when anyone was near his food was so extreme that the only way he could be fed was to throw his food over the fence ! |
| 26 | ( His desire to become gravid was so fierce that no menstruating woman was safe from him — he might strike even by day , if he caught the iron whiff of their menses . ) |
| 27 | The mist was so thick that the only colours were shades of black and white which were smudged and merged together in wisps of vapour . |