Example sentences of "was so [adj] [that] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But , poorly placed as X Corps was for any new attack , its position on either side of Fort Douaumont was so untenable that just by sitting still it was losing 230 men a day to French shellfire . |
| 2 | It was wretched luck that the weather that day was so awful that only 1000+ turned up to see Simpson well played by Bernard Joy and Palace win by 3–2 . |
| 3 | Suggesting that life under Hitler was so bloody that even his deputy wanted to get out . |
| 4 | Only one explanation fitted all the facts , and it was so far-fetched that more than once she dismissed it . |
| 5 | The deal was so simple that even Reagan could understand it . |
| 6 | Gleeson was so repulsive that surely no-one would be interested in him . |
| 7 | Indeed the tenacity of Roman concrete and mortar was so great that today , in the ruined buildings of the Empire , it can be seen that it is the stone which has fractured not the material which binds it . |
| 8 | It seemed to me that my personal disaster was so great that hitherto I had not allowed myself to understand it . |
| 9 | The area was so poor that even the dead rats in the street looked as though they had died of hunger . |
| 10 | Public response to the controversial share sale was so strong that virtually all the £5.3billion of shares could be sold without offering any to financial institutions or overseas investors . |
| 11 | The pig feeding scheme was so successful that even with rationing , the amount of bacon consumed in nineteen forty one was greater than the annual pre-war consumption per head . |
| 12 | And everything about her , her long nightdress and the mist she was held in , was so golden-red that even the dark gold skin of her lovely face had a reddish tinge to it . |
| 13 | However , while the romantic is afraid of being ordinary , Jesus was so ordinary that even his own family could see nothing special about him . |
| 14 | The security at the Palace was so tight that even the band 's ersatz manager , Scott Piering , could not gain admittance for his close acquaintances . |
| 15 | It was so sudden that even her doctors were taken by surprise , and to her husband the news came as a profound shock . |
| 16 | The market for engines in Cornwall was so important that eventually Boulton & Watt employed a very able engineer called William Murdock who was permanently based in Cornwall supervising the erection of their engines . |
| 17 | The food was so hard that even the small denizens of the forest had left it alone . |
| 18 | His good humour was so infectious that even the fräulein managed a wan smile . |
| 19 | The thought of having to continue that conversation was so alarming that unconsciously she moved closer to Luke Calder , finding comfort in the solid feel of his hard-muscled body . |
| 20 | The green of the spring grass and of the new leaves upon the trees was so intense that even riding through it for hours could not dim John 's sense of wonder . |
| 21 | The turn of the conversation was so unexpected that even Mr Cottle tuned in to hear the outcome . |
| 22 | The idea of the fat old cattle dealer emerging as a romantic possibility was so preposterous that even Moran smiled . |
| 23 | The picture he had painted was so vivid that once again she felt as if she were about to be sick . |