Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adv] a part " in BNC.

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1 Street-fighting and village brawls at football matches were so much a part of ‘ traditional ’ society that we tend to forget how relatively civilized modern social life has become .
2 It may be hard to reconcile the ideals of chivalry at Edward 's court with the burning , looting and killing which were so much a part of the campaigns the nobles fought in France , and difficult to argue that the idea of chivalry had any substantially mitigating effect on the horrors of war .
3 The lulling cushion of blood-heat saline solution I floated on did help me to neglect those bodily fears that were so much a part of me .
4 She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion .
5 People thronged in the several outdoor cafés , while others sat in groups on the paving stones , enjoying the music , cans of Coke at their feet , slices of smørrebrød in their hands , while neatly stacked against the railings of the old houses with their terracotta- and gamboge-painted façades were the ubiquitous bicycles which were so much a part of the Danish travel scene .
6 Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ?
7 He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him .
8 As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church .
9 Even the presence of the very famous actor indeed who had undertaken the part of Macbeth was hardly noticed ; after all he was so much a part of the English scene as to be , very nearly , taken for granted , though his performance was , as always , brilliant .
10 He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance .
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