Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were so engrossed asking questions and spending their Sainsbury 's gift vouchers that they were too late to visit their next port of call — Windsor Castle ! |
| 2 | Why do you think there were so many butcher 's shops ? |
| 3 | There were so many evening meetings to attend … |
| 4 | By the end of the Eighties there were so many library books in the shops and on market stalls ( a mediaeval phenomenon that still survives in market towns in Devon and elsewhere ) that it was clear to anyone that a new situation had arisen . |
| 5 | ‘ There were so many commodity businesses trying to make a living out of exporting , so when sterling strengthened as it did , our commodity activity was priced out of existence . ’ |
| 6 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 7 | I wanted to see something of those countries which were so much part of what Europe has been and will become , and which were yet so unknown . |
| 8 | That was the way he enjoyed talking about sex , a slightly diluted form of the conversations that were so much part of his connections with the Orton-Halliwell set . |
| 9 | But you were so much part of our youth . ’ |
| 10 | What was the use of tallies that might , perhaps , be valid in theory , and even capable of being turned into cash in six months ' time , or a year , but were so much paper now , and no use to disgruntled archers and men-at-arms whose need was for coin that could be spent at once ? |
| 11 | Her growing indignation at the way they were discussing her as though she were so much merchandise was abruptly swamped by misery at the thought of giving herself to the man she had dreamed of for years in such a cold-blooded manner . |
| 12 | He was right ; Browne was a proto-DO of purest frontier type to whom rules and procedures and administrative directives were so much dustbin fodder . |
| 13 | It was a Fleet Street joke that there were so few word processors in the Post 's editorial departments . |
| 14 | The meeting of 1950 agreed that future meetings should be held in Yorkshire , and the earlier amendment of 1920 allowing it to take place in Lancashire ( as there were so few archery clubs in the north ) be rescinded . |
| 15 | You did n't have time to do much talking you were so busy sewing . |
| 16 | They were so busy talking that they did n't see the bandits at three o'clock until it was almost too late ; or , at least , the newest and youngest arrival did n't . |
| 17 | Dr Neil , with many a joke , helped them , made change , and once went out to return with lemonade and glasses for all the ladies who were so busy manning the stalls , Mr Sands helping him — the rector being a vague benevolent figure who came in and blinked at them all , said , ‘ I am sure , ladies , that you will all gain treasure in heaven for your noble work here today , ’ and went out again . |
| 18 | It was so strange talking to Creed like this . |
| 19 | He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything . |
| 20 | I know that on Sunday I was on , on the watch , this weekend , and there was so much ice on the river , our anchor boat which is all made of wood , that 's moored up alongside the dredger and when I went along and got , that was about twelve o'clock in the mid-day . |
| 21 | ‘ But there was so much misunderstanding between us . |
| 22 | Music blared out and there was so much noise we were kept awake half the night . |
| 23 | There was so much noise around them , children screaming with excitement as a fireworks display exploded across the bay . |
| 24 | There was so much noise and testing going on . |
| 25 | WHY WAS so much noise and trouble caused over the poll tax ? |
| 26 | The newspapers were put down , the chairs dragged into place but there was so much space on the floor that the three kneeling figures , Moran erect at the table , Rose and Michael bent at the chairs , looked scattered and far apart . |
| 27 | There was so much space , so much silence , so few meetings that one too easily saw out of the present , and then the past seemed ten times closer than it was . |
| 28 | Why was it , Lord Taylor asked , that there was so much criticism of individual sentences in the courts ? |
| 29 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 30 | Everyone was cheering and the nerves disappeared 'cause it was so much fun . |