Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body-was so slim and fragile one got the feeling that if she fell over she would smash into a thousand pieces , like a porcelain figure . |
| 2 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 3 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
| 4 | ‘ Those days Australia were so strong that once you were out of the team it was extremely difficult to get back in . |
| 5 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 6 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 7 | Her own memories were so strong that she feared that she would burst into hysterics before him , and that would never do . |
| 8 | Nuclear weapons were so destructive that those states which possessed them had to be very careful about getting involved in any conflicts , whether with other nuclear states or with their allies . |
| 9 | She enjoyed nearly everything , even widow 's weeds perhaps most of all widow 's weeds , as her married life had not been as exciting as she might have wished , and besides , they were so graceful and pretty . |
| 10 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 11 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 12 | Bankruptcy stared the Nazis in the face , and for a while they were so desperate that they actually considered introducing the zloty as a way of stabilising the currency and restoring calm . |
| 13 | The surprise and shock registered yet again on Ewen 's face were so real that even I , if this time I had not known better , would have thought them genuine . |
| 14 | Obviously , they were so sure that I was the right person for the job , that they needed a second opinion . |
| 15 | Some of them were so nasty that they had learned to disguise most symptoms of ill health from her . |
| 16 | By 3 p.m. , the explosions were so loud that they were audible 240 kilometres away ; by 5 p.m. they were so stupendous that the sound was carrying all over Java . |
| 17 | They were so ubiquitous that grounded bodies used as sheds will be a feature of Britain 's farmyards for decades to come . |
| 18 | ‘ I forgot to wipe the sweat off my hands when I started swinging , ’ he said , ‘ and my hands were so slippery that I fell . ’ |
| 19 | The Chancellor had left Blackpool late on Monday night , after addressing party agents , but conference jitters were so great that his unexpected disappearance prompted rumours that he had gone back to London for crisis talks . |
| 20 | The rights assigned to the empire by these jurists were so great that many cities refused to acknowledge them . |
| 21 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 22 | John Lowe 's mental attainments at the age of 18 were so great that his father saw nothing incongruous in advising him to take up the law as a profession . |
| 23 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 24 | These variations were so great that he questioned the applicability of formulae which used this approach to sampling . |
| 25 | The burdens of organising , public speaking and reacting to rapidly changing circumstances were so great that few of those responsible for the new unionism could lay claim to being efficient administrators . |
| 26 | Such ideas were abandoned only when advocates of a third force were squarely confronted in 1948 with a precise timetable — namely that Britain 's needs were so great that ( to be of value ) such a " force " would need to be created within five years . |
| 27 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 28 | One of the moments which remained most strongly in her memory took place in the town 's most learned book shop , a charming building that dated , almost alone in the town , from a pre-industrial epoch ; it was tall , and narrow , and its windows Were so small that it could display only ten books at a time , and those ten were changed but once a month . |
| 29 | All the houses were so small that er th nearly everybody 'd take their chairs out in the evening time in the in the summer . |
| 30 | When the southernmost stars also were divided up , the whole situation became somewhat chaotic ; various astronomers invented their own constellations , some of which were so small and so obscure as to be unworthy of separate identity . |