Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] [that] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | All of us there were so stunned that a man of such high standing in the golf world could be so uncaring . |
| 3 | This was in 1785 and by then the major mines were so deep that a ladder climb to the surface could take an hour . |
| 4 | Settlement had also occurred elsewhere , and the Foreign and Colonial Offices were so badly weakened by alterations and were so inconvenient that an entirely new building would be the only way to provide suitable accommodation . |
| 5 | But the sheer warmth and solace of the strong arms about her were so reassuring that a few moments later she drifted off into a much calmer and deeper sleep . |
| 6 | The 1883 eruption of Krakatoa was of this kind , although the four explosions that took place at its climax were so stupendous that a separate type of eruption , the Krakatoan , is sometimes referred to . |
| 7 | In fact the man 's examination of his papers was so cursory that a lot of Hapsburg ingenuity had evidently been wasted . |
| 8 | The danger of a break through the northern end of the spit was so apparent that a sea wall was built along this section in 1890 . |
| 9 | The contemporary concern was so great that a Royal Commission on Population was set up in 1944 to examine the problem of Britain 's declining rate of population growth . |
| 10 | Demand was so great that a commentary of the programmes was published . |
| 11 | When a national newspaper first published Mrs Travers ' views , the response was so great that a whole page had to be given over to readers ' letters . |
| 12 | The risk involved in the defendants ' operations was so great that a high degree of care was expected of them . |
| 13 | The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised . |
| 14 | The sequence was then interrupted by a flood that was so devastating that a new start had to be made and again kingship had to be ‘ lowered from heaven ’ . |
| 15 | The controversy was so deep that an appeal was made to Rome by the combatants . |
| 16 | He was so low that a wing-tip touched the ground , causing a ground loop . |
| 17 | Moreover , the supporters of Morgan add , this should not lead to unmeritorious acquittals , because juries will not allow bogus defences to succeed : in Morgan itself the House of Lords was satisfied that the basis for the defence was so weak that a correctly directed jury would have found the defendants guilty . |
| 18 | The court will look to its own law to determine whether there has been good service , sufficient in a common law system to found jurisdiction ; the same law will identify the steps required to set running the time which must elapse before a default judgment can be entered ; and the same law will , in some countries , apply to determine whether service was so defective that a default judgment must be set aside . |
| 19 | What proved particularly shocking in this instance was that the licensing of firearms was so haphazard that a 16-year-old Whitechapel youth , who had already stood trial on a charge of wounding his 16-year-old girlfriend with a revolver , could obtain a licence at a later date without even having to show proof of his age . |
| 20 | That might not have mattered unduly , but their early form was so ordinary that a lack of impact off the pitch was compounded by a comparable shortage of flair on it . |
| 21 | The annual camp for secondary schools Cadet Corps gave me my first holiday away from home , but I was so homesick that a fortnight seemed an impossibly long time before I could get back to my parents and family . |
| 22 | The yacht was so new that a price has yet to be established . |
| 23 | In the words of one of them , the background noise was so loud that a rifle shot sounded comparable to ‘ the popping of a champagne cork amid the hubbub of a banquet ’ . |
| 24 | His body ached mainly through lack of sleep , he told himself , reluctant to admit he was so unfit that a mile walk had drained him of energy . |
| 25 | At some stage a suggestion arose from both sides — principally Damerell of BUPA so far as the doctors were concerned and , strangely enough , also from Barbara and the DHSS — that the consultancy strike was so damaging that a mediator should be sought . |
| 26 | In the event , the task was so large that a small group would not have been able to cope with it alone . |
| 27 | For many years , courts in the United States failed to understand the Latin American approach ; the failure was so fundamental that a plaintiff in a Latin American republic had no means of serving process on a defendant in the United States . |
| 28 | The ice was so thick that an elephant was able to walk down it — and did . |