Example sentences of "were [adv] so [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he realised that they were presumably so poor that even a choice of cornflakes or lumpy porridge , along with underdone toast and margarine , had the overwhelming attraction of being free . |
| 2 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 3 | ‘ She and Elizabeth , they were just so talented and so go-getting . |
| 4 | It is more likely that the elements of secrecy and self-deception involved in my behaviour were already so strong that what I was actually doing could n't be described in words at all , least of all in the incriminating written word . |
| 5 | ‘ You were always so angry and violent , such a wicked child ! ’ |
| 6 | Cliff — who now lives in a mansion in Surrey — says times were once so hard that his dad made the family furniture from packing cases . |
| 7 | It was as if a light had been extinguished ; the colours which were once so bright and clear had grown blurred and faded . |
| 8 | he were ever so good and I was told about all these |
| 9 | Those were ever so nice that they got were n't they ? |
| 10 | I 'm a respectable woman , and I wo n't have no ‘ goings on ’ , not if you were ever so high and mighty , the pair of you . |
| 11 | ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure . |
| 12 | THE nights were still so cold that icicles formed on the outside of the chutes that fed the water-mills , where the water churned white and spilled over . |
| 13 | ‘ We were both so delighted when Laura had the liver transplant . |
| 14 | They were both so pleased that I had come , by accident , to make their day perfect . |
| 15 | But now , her pregnancy and his ever-increasing work-load meant that at the end of the day they were both so exhausted that there was only the desire for an early night and a brief conversation about all their plans or what Brian called , ‘ the state of play ’ . |
| 16 | But Mr and Mrs Wormwood were both so gormless and so wrapped up in their own silly little lives that they failed to notice anything unusual about their daughter . |
| 17 | If the behaviour patterns of the good citizen as delineated by Home Office ministers were both so lacking and so necessary to cultivate as they suggested , the schools ' function in laying the essential foundations was transparently obvious . |
| 18 | They were both so angry that they did not immediately see the movement that came from the old female 's shelter in the cage between them . |
| 19 | After all , Papa was only just forty-one , and Mama was younger than that , and they were both so handsome that it was a wonder — or perhaps not — that they were so faithful to one another , so much so that it was almost a joke , Papa having been a great ladies ' man in his youth , she had discovered . |
| 20 | Viewed from close up he showed absolutely no sign of being controlled by an extraterrestrial intelligence.The guys from Tellenor were probably so good that they had over-reached themselves and programmed free will into him . |
| 21 | Fire was used for forest clearance and because slopes were steep soil erosion was rapid ; its effects were often so serious that productivity rapidly declined and new areas were cleared . |
| 22 | We did n't want to go to England to study because their painting did n't appeal , they had no sense of colour , their drawings were often so tight and lifeless , no flair . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ We were often so hungry that we used to actually lick the vaseline mixture that was smeared over our bodies to stop the skin chapping . ’ |
| 24 | Furthermore , while the effects of events in producing depression were often so rapid that there would scarcely be time to intervene after the event and before depression , major difficulties , by definition , had existed for at least two years , giving ample time for preventive intervention . |
| 25 | Having set off in great style from Salzburg in their own carriage , they were now so impecunious that they were obliged to sell it before the frontier and go on by postchaise . |
| 26 | Britain 's problems were now so acute that they posed a threat to American interests and the free world 's financial system . |
| 27 | He was forever denouncing me during Parliamentary Questions in the most lurid terms but the denunciations were invariably so protracted that even his own side lost interest . |
| 28 | However , as a milking animal it always had a problem which is still apparent today in some animals : the udders were frequently so pendulous that they were prone to injury and made suckling awkward ( baby beef calves were bucket-reared ) , and later were a problem for machine milking . |
| 29 | The relationships were indeed so close that suspicions arose that Burghley , who helped Smith to clear a substantial profit on an alum deal in 1578 , and Leicester , who referred in his will to his ‘ great love ’ of the ‘ customer ’ , shared in the profits of the farm . |
| 30 | ‘ I had n't realised your ambitions were quite so basic or mercenary , ’ said Niall drily . |