Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The military influences which were so strong in diplomacy in central and eastern Europe were therefore by no means unknown in the great western states as well . |
| 2 | They had been orphaned and were so desperate for work that they auditioned while still mourning . |
| 3 | San Francisco has had a privatised police force since 1851 , when the city cops were so desperate for help that they sold off districts to private enterprise . |
| 4 | The customers did n't mind , they were so desperate for food , anything would of done . |
| 5 | The correspondents expressed deep gratitude to Hannah — they were so inspired by her sublimely tranquil and uncomplaining acceptance of the kind of material deprivation considered unacceptable by modern society , so moved by her angelic demeanour and indomitable spirit , that they had been obliged to consider their own situation and concluded that their individual complaints about life were so paltry by comparison that their entire perspective had been changed . |
| 6 | Some ponds were so rich in animal life that a single pond net sample contained over 8,800 animals ! |
| 7 | Burun looked , but he could see only unprepared men who had not even drawn their bows because they were so confident of success . |
| 8 | Ellwood 's clothes were so neutral in colour , so commonplace in style , that he seemed to fade as he dressed . |
| 9 | During the 1930s the words ‘ fascism ’ and ‘ fascist ’ were so much in vogue as to make inevitable their widespread application to the Nationalist cause and the emergent Franco regime . |
| 10 | Guests at their big Los Angeles show included KURT COBAIN and COURTNEY LOVE , who were so impressed by king of the skins BRENDON O'HARE that they are seriously considering naming their imminent first-born after him ! |
| 11 | His whole body tensed and his eyes were so hooded with desire she thought she would never be able to stop him . |
| 12 | My first impressions were an exciting mixture of scenes that seemed familiar but were so different in detail : I could n't wait to get a closer look at it all ! |
| 13 | We went upstairs — Rose called it the gods , because we were so near to heaven , I suppose , and the stage was so far away . ’ |
| 14 | Public commendations and small gratuities were so minor in character , and so random in distribution , that they contributed little to the City Police 's power of inducement . |
| 15 | Leith began to recover from feeling shaken to realise that things had gone too far now for her to confess everything , but in any case she could n't do that , not when Rosemary and Travis were so insistent on secrecy . |
| 16 | They were in the air for just under 12 hours and were so short of fuel upon their return , an emergency landing had to be made at Ludham . |
| 17 | They were so free in expression she wondered if they had been read at all by his parents but presumed they could hardly have escaped their eye . |
| 18 | She failed him as a great ‘ silver ’ power , as a naval power at Trafalgar , and by 1807 her domestic polities were so confused by court intrigue that she appeared scarcely a reliable political ally . |
| 19 | Their manager , John King , said his players were so high on publicity that before this match he had to pull them down from the ceiling . |
| 20 | Windsfield straight into New Invention and every Wednesday night , first it was the cows that would come and then the sheep and they 'd got to walk to the abattoir at Bloxwich , and erm sometimes the cows were so heavy with milk that er a lot of people in New Invention had free milk and then if the , if the sheep would be here there and everywhere you know and then with mother living where there was an entry dividing four houses er and a well straight at the top , and a. a big old-fashioned er tap for the cold water , there were n't any taps laid in kitchen in er what are the outhouses it was a communal tap erm sometimes the sheep would get out of hand and they 'd run up the entry hall and all round mother 's yard and then the cows would go around , but er it , it to me I felt sorry about it , because especially in the summer er erm the poor things were so hot and to walk all those miles , now they 're carried are n't they and they used to every Wednesday every Wednesday of the year the drivers would er the men must have been absolutely tired out , well although they 'd be used to it would n't they , but it was miles to walk from Wolverhampton the cattle market to Blox straight to Bloxwich and er that was another event that erm it , we , it , we used to have . |
| 21 | I had to hang blankets over the windows at night , and in the morning they were so heavy with moisture that I had a proper job taking them down . |
| 22 | And it was hot , the humidity very high with a miasma hanging over the buildings as though the clouds were so heavy with moisture they needed to rest themselves on terra firma . |
| 23 | How was it that one of the exiled sons of Aethelfrith was so close at hand ( and another not far behind ) and in a position to assume the kingship of the Bernicians when Eadwine fell ? |
| 24 | it seems to me that often , especially with this committee er start at half ten we get to about half twelve and everyone starts shuffling and think of their lunch and often not so much recently , but in , in , in , over the last five years there have been issues I think it almost left you on because it was so close to lunch , er and people did n't then want to have to break for an hour , hour and a half and then come back , whereas if you start at two fifteen erm I think it 's easier to go on till half four , five seems to be to go to this psychological one o'clock barrier , seems to er upset people greatly agitation and er their argument is th th that er that in the afternoon |
| 25 | In this essay , I will try to convey the basic ideas behind these two theories , and why Einstein was so unhappy about quantum mechanics . |
| 26 | But to the men of Kufra whose fathers or grandfathers had settled there because it was so centrally placed on trade routes , or because it was so remote from Ottoman , Italian or British control , ‘ central government ’ appeared indeed as a real force , but as one located — so to speak — in the extreme northwestern corner , in Tripoli . |
| 27 | Doris was so overcome with girlishness she actually giggled . |
| 28 | ’ Carco asked if he could buy a painting , ‘ The Standing Nude ’ , and Zbo was so overcome with emotion because Carco appreciated Modigliani that he refused to take any money for it . |
| 29 | Indeed , it was directly as a consequence of this that the White Paper was so general in approach and so nebulous on crucial issues . |
| 30 | This greed for glory , the rage to be the victor — no-one was so fearsome in possession of this quality than the last of the great masters of the peloton , Bernard Hinault . |