Example sentences of "were [adj] [conj] so [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Remember , Bowyer 's and Southgate 's boots were wet and so leather would swell a little .
2 A certain number of people here ( there were more than So signatures ) addressed a petition to the Mayor ( I think his name is M.Tardieu ) describing me as a man not fit to be at liberty , or something like that .
3 There were fifteen or so others present , many of them Privy Councillors , all of considerable party or national weight .
4 But this would be to little avail if the ground were waterlogged or so acid as to prevent the normal action of soil life .
5 There were twenty or so people in the room .
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