Example sentences of "[adv] so [conj] [noun] [was/were] " in BNC.

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1 There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate .
2 It was entirely unexpected , and its cause a mystery , so much so that poison was inevitably suspected .
3 Bede says of the episcopal authority of Bishop Wilfrid in the reign of Oswiu that it embraced Northumbrians and Picts as far as the power of Oswiu extended ( HE III , 3 ) , and the Life of Wilfrid that in the reign of Ecgfrith it widened still further so that Wilfrid was bishop of the Saxons ( that is , the Northumbrians ) in the south and the Britons , Scots and Picts in the north ( Vita Wilfridi , ch. 21 ) .
4 All the more so because Madness were such a good , unaffected laugh .
5 360 , but any connection with imperial officials is highly conjectural , the more so as Firminus was a very common cognomen .
6 It is even more so when treasures were cast into deep water .
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