Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blow , blow thou Winter wynd , thou wert not so unkind as man 's ingratitude ! |
| 2 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 3 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 4 | When we were drawn against both England and Holland , people were not so sure but after the European Championship finals , those fears have gone . ’ |
| 5 | Others were not so convinced that John Gould , ‘ a mere museum man ’ , was up to the challenge . |
| 6 | It is important to note that these young men were not so much-pro-Japanese or anti-British as intensely Burman . |
| 7 | ‘ I wish my sight were not so powerful and so cunning … . |
| 8 | He wished Annabel were not so insecure and dependent upon him ; for the past few months , as she waited for Avanti to make up its mind , she had needed constant emotional support and reassurance from Scott , who had felt her clinging to him , almost like a physical weight on his back . |
| 9 | The stewards , however , were not so impressed and banned User Friendly 's jockey for four days ( beginning November 14 ) for excessive use of the whip . |
| 10 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 11 | He had a bit of a chip on his shoulder because he felt that other people who were not so good but who had the right background and connections had gotten ahead of him . |
| 12 | I enjoyed all my years at Primary School although some events were not so good as others . |
| 13 | Yet even the gashes were not so ugly as the expensive boat that had caused them . |
| 14 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 15 | In those days , children were not so sheltered as now from the pressures of adult life , and the exploitation of child prodigies for material gain was not frowned upon . |
| 16 | Presumably its ancestors were not so different when they shared the marine habitat with the trilobites . |
| 17 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 18 | We disposed of the big fish first , not even so without difficulty ; for while some , like Ceylon and Jamaica , were islands , which was a good enough demarcation for rough and ready purposes , others , like the Indians or Nigerians , were not so unmistakable and quarrelled violently over who they were . |
| 19 | His father did not mind his son becoming an Anglican priest but wished that he were not so Anglo-Catholic and not so high-principled about bishops . |
| 20 | The subjects with influenza B were not so ill that they were confined to bed , so influenza could possibly endanger people 's safety at work . |
| 21 | They were not so big as to require steam lifting machinery and powered saws . |
| 22 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |
| 23 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 24 | It is more likely that the elements of secrecy and self-deception involved in my behaviour were already so strong that what I was actually doing could n't be described in words at all , least of all in the incriminating written word . |
| 25 | ‘ You were always so angry and violent , such a wicked child ! ’ |
| 26 | Cliff — who now lives in a mansion in Surrey — says times were once so hard that his dad made the family furniture from packing cases . |
| 27 | It was as if a light had been extinguished ; the colours which were once so bright and clear had grown blurred and faded . |
| 28 | he were ever so good and I was told about all these |
| 29 | Those were ever so nice that they got were n't they ? |
| 30 | I 'm a respectable woman , and I wo n't have no ‘ goings on ’ , not if you were ever so high and mighty , the pair of you . |