Example sentences of "was so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not meet his mother from infancy until the age of twelve , when they found themselves accidentally in the same workhouse : but instead of the ‘ gush of tenderness ’ between them of which he had dreamt , ‘ her expression was so chilling that the valves of my heart closed as with a snap … |
| 2 | The variety was so wide that no generalisations can be made , except to note a lack of books explicitly on the description of language . |
| 3 | It was this ability to display a ballerina 's apparent weightlessness and sheer joy in dance that was so impressive when the Spirits of the Air danced in Homage to the Queen , Ashton 's exquisite celebration of the 1952 Coronation which was danced by Margot Fonteyn and Michael Somes . |
| 4 | His skull , which protruded above a filthy cravat , was so small that the features of his face seemed to more than cover it ; he was bald , which added to the grotesque effect . |
| 5 | The wealth accruing to the treasury was so great that the citizens of Italy were henceforth relieved of the need to pay tribute . |
| 6 | The flow was so great that the authorities closed the border on Aug. 22-23 in order to cope with the backlog . |
| 7 | The project was so successful that the youngsters were awarded the school 's own annual Steelite Enterprise Trophy . |
| 8 | than that dear it 's down the other end , the other side of Old Harlow , but he used to have a surgery there which he , you know , made it better after the erm , to ease up Dr surgery cos that was so packed and the shops were absolutely and you used to have to queue and queue for , to get your shopping , you could n't , I used to cycle into Harlow and leave my cycle somewhere and then go along do my shopping , but it used to be two or three hours ' job it was , you did n't get done till dinner time and then I used to call it a , a lady used to say call there that used to have the fried fish and chip shop on the corner of erm Harlow and I used to go there and have a cup of tea before I came home because I used to be so long shopping you could n't get served you see , it 's too many people , there was nowhere else for them to go , it was only Bishop 's Stortford you had to go |
| 9 | Previously the government had argued that the slave trade was so profitable that the traders could pay for their own forts , but by the mid-eighteenth century this attitude had changed to an acceptance of the fact that the trade was so necessary for the sugar islands ( and the sugar islands so necessary for the British economy ) that the trade would have to be supported if it could not afford to meet these overhead costs . |
| 10 | A cabin cruiser was chugging down the wide brown river towards that little harbour I 'd seen , and over the other side the bank was so steep that the rows of terraced houses were leaning over each other to get a view . |
| 11 | In addition to being the party representing the interests of wealthier people , Mrs Thatcher 's Conservative governments of the 1980s argued that the UK 's competitive position was so difficult that the interests of production had to come firmly before redistribution . |
| 12 | The sky was so clear and the stars so visible that the earth could almost be seen turning . |
| 13 | The sound was so alarming that the ducks on the lake enclosure opposite rose up into the air in sudden flight . |
| 14 | there could occur a case where the issue raised was so sensitive and the revelations necessarily following its decision so damaging to national security that the court might have to take special measures ( for example sitting in camera or prohibiting the mention of names ) . |
| 15 | The German SDS marched in neat formation — provoking racist jokes mingled with admiration — and the crowd was so large that the police lines proved incapable of resisting it . |
| 16 | The year 1984 was so active that the markets ' response was both pronounced and rapid . |
| 17 | His absorption with Mao and Castro was so open that the neighbors took it for a double bluff , and each new discovery of an agent transmitting messages from some ordinary-looking English suburb increased the tension of their interest in the land mine who was surely bound one day to go off in their own street . |
| 18 | This frankness was so unprecedented that the girls could not resent it ; they could not , in the context of school behaviour , take it seriously enough to resent it . |