Example sentences of "[ex0] [was/were] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why do you think there were so many butcher 's shops ? |
| 2 | ‘ There were so many commodity businesses trying to make a living out of exporting , so when sterling strengthened as it did , our commodity activity was priced out of existence . ’ |
| 3 | There used to be just the sports in the afternoon ; Mary Clarke and Bill Scott remembered when the races were held on the roads through the village , in the days before there were so many motor cars . |
| 4 | There were so many evening meetings to attend … |
| 5 | By the end of the Eighties there were so many library books in the shops and on market stalls ( a mediaeval phenomenon that still survives in market towns in Devon and elsewhere ) that it was clear to anyone that a new situation had arisen . |
| 6 | It was a Fleet Street joke that there were so few word processors in the Post 's editorial departments . |
| 7 | The meeting of 1950 agreed that future meetings should be held in Yorkshire , and the earlier amendment of 1920 allowing it to take place in Lancashire ( as there were so few archery clubs in the north ) be rescinded . |
| 8 | ‘ But there was so much misunderstanding between us . |
| 9 | I thought that once , when I did my first removal because the boss was away , and I went to a house wh and they had more more mirrors in that house than I s ever seen since , and because I was only learning and I had n't been taught I put all the other furniture in and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors and worried about the mirrors till at the end there was so much furniture in there was n't room to put the mirrors on the floor and I had to come back a second time to actually do that because I did n't dare put them anywhere else . |
| 10 | I asked Fleischmann why there was so much concern . |
| 11 | He said there was so much stuff up there I could n't reel off what they 've got because he said they got everything . |
| 12 | When the Council was wound up in 1982 , being replaced by the Secondary Examinations Council and School Curriculum Development Committee , there was so much work to be done on the curriculum and the examination of it in the years of compulsory school that consideration of the sixth-form curriculum lapsed into comparative inertia . |
| 13 | There were moments of course , when Jim and I felt desperately tired and even resentful because there was so much work involved . |
| 14 | Despite the promise of great ornithological rewards if he stayed , Gould found it immensely difficult to remain inactive while there was so much work to be done . |
| 15 | There was so much love and companionship and understanding between these three people that she was hurt by it . |
| 16 | There was so much laughter , so much excitement , so much love . |
| 17 | Conditions had been met and there was so much speculation about when we were going to go into the Exchange Rate Mechanism , we took advantage of the excellent opportunity which , which |
| 18 | There was so much happening either on the stage or on the huge banks of videos that it was difficult to take it all in . |
| 19 | Several houses were flooded and the doors could not be forced because there was so much water inside . |
| 20 | A breed society had been established in 1910 ; the original 1912 herdbook lapsed after a decade because there was so much crossing with larger breeds , but it was revived in 1982 . |
| 21 | Then , obviously , there was so much doubt , I could n't . |
| 22 | It was commercially cut for reeds until the 1950s , which meant it was kept in good order but then cutting stopped and later the River Hundred was straightened because there was so much flooding at Knodishall . |
| 23 | The mines in the Dailly coalfield were notorious for gas and there was a joke in the county 's other mining areas that there was so much gas underground at Dailly that the farmers had to use a Davy safety lamp when ploughing the fields . |
| 24 | Her heels felt sore , and because there was so much walking , they seemed to be getting worse as the morning went on . |
| 25 | These remaining few have invariably grown much larger than was previously possible when there was so much competition for the available food . |
| 26 | Music blared out and there was so much noise we were kept awake half the night . |
| 27 | There was so much noise around them , children screaming with excitement as a fireworks display exploded across the bay . |
| 28 | There was so much noise and testing going on . |
| 29 | I know that on Sunday I was on , on the watch , this weekend , and there was so much ice on the river , our anchor boat which is all made of wood , that 's moored up alongside the dredger and when I went along and got , that was about twelve o'clock in the mid-day . |
| 30 | Why was it , Lord Taylor asked , that there was so much criticism of individual sentences in the courts ? |