Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] [conj] even " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 3 | Many were so appalling that even Himmler had been known to walk out of the showings , sick to the stomach . |
| 4 | The scenes that followed were so piteous that even now , two days after , I tremble to recall them ; and the screams of the women and frightened children are with me day and night . |
| 5 | Her courage and consideration were so remarkable that even close friends did not know until near the end that she was seriously ill . |
| 6 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 7 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 8 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |
| 9 | Suggesting that life under Hitler was so bloody that even his deputy wanted to get out . |
| 10 | The deal was so simple that even Reagan could understand it . |
| 11 | The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger . |
| 12 | The pig feeding scheme was so successful that even with rationing , the amount of bacon consumed in nineteen forty one was greater than the annual pre-war consumption per head . |
| 13 | And everything about her , her long nightdress and the mist she was held in , was so golden-red that even the dark gold skin of her lovely face had a reddish tinge to it . |
| 14 | However , while the romantic is afraid of being ordinary , Jesus was so ordinary that even his own family could see nothing special about him . |
| 15 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 16 | It was so sudden that even her doctors were taken by surprise , and to her husband the news came as a profound shock . |
| 17 | The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone . |
| 18 | His good humour was so infectious that even the fräulein managed a wan smile . |
| 19 | The green of the spring grass and of the new leaves upon the trees was so intense that even riding through it for hours could not dim John 's sense of wonder . |
| 20 | The turn of the conversation was so unexpected that even Mr Cottle tuned in to hear the outcome . |
| 21 | The idea of the fat old cattle dealer emerging as a romantic possibility was so preposterous that even Moran smiled . |