Example sentences of "was so [det] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just on one of the points er made by Professor Lock erm who was arguing that it it basically was n't possible to include an agricultural land quality criterion er in the exceptions policy because there was so much good land in North Yorkshire . |
| 2 | There was so much new knowledge in science , and degrees in science came to be seen as an alternative to degrees in classics or mathematics rather than as something to be done afterwards as an optional extra , or taken as a merely voluntary course of lectures . |
| 3 | Andy Lloyd believes they ultimately failed last year because of the onerous programme confronting them , as they competed in all directions for an elusive honour : ‘ There was so much concerted effort and no reward . |
| 4 | Jean Revers was horrified at the sight of huge bonfires in the fields at Carno ; there was so much unusable fabric it was just burned . |
| 5 | There was so much untidy milling about , however , that in the confines of the tiny space they found it hard to organize themselves and eventually seemed to abandon the attempt . |
| 6 | Their veteran prop Kevin Ward commented : ‘ I never knew there was so much intense rivalry between the two clubs until I came to St Helens . |
| 7 | There was so much enraged violence in the action that Isabel knew she had missed being hurled across the church by that powerful arm only because of fitzAlan 's self-control . |
| 8 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 9 | At a time when spelling was so much more fluid , it would have seemed sensible to have changed letters for the sake of legibility . ) |
| 10 | To see a man in such a state was so much more moving . |
| 11 | Obviously they must destroy this threat which was so much more puissant than that posed by the Land Raiders . |
| 12 | There was so much bad weather ! ’ |
| 13 | However , I never really worried too much about the Crag Loughs , because there was so much wonderful sport to be had elsewhere , on both river and loch . |
| 14 | ‘ Who would have though there was so much sapient pearwood in the whole of the disc ? ’ he said . |
| 15 | So little had been released from that tight grip , and there was so little natural affinity between them that , for all the hours they had spent in this room together , they remained strangers to one another . |