Example sentences of "were so [adj] that [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The surprise and shock registered yet again on Ewen 's face were so real that even I , if this time I had not known better , would have thought them genuine . |
| 2 | Such criticism of American policy would be counter-productive ; the claims on the United States for economic and military assistance were so great that only a limited amount could be given to Korea . |
| 3 | They were so accurate that frequently bees were ready and waiting when the experimenters arrived to refill the sugar solution . |
| 4 | This sort of situation did not occur in Newham , perhaps because places in institutional care were so limited that only those unanimously in need obtained them . |
| 5 | Her family is described as " infirm " , and this may explain why even with two of her daughters grown women in their twenties the family was able to earn little , although it may also reflect the fact that earning opportunities for women were so poor that even able-bodied spinsters could not wholly maintain themselves . |
| 6 | Many were so appalling that even Himmler had been known to walk out of the showings , sick to the stomach . |
| 7 | The scenes that followed were so piteous that even now , two days after , I tremble to recall them ; and the screams of the women and frightened children are with me day and night . |
| 8 | With help … ’ and her whispered words were so quiet that only Creggan and Kraal heard them . |
| 9 | Her courage and consideration were so remarkable that even close friends did not know until near the end that she was seriously ill . |
| 10 | Maybe so , but there is good and bad , effective and ineffective propaganda , and , as Nizan himself was acutely aware , the technical problems associated with injecting ideology and politics into literature were so enormous that only the most adroit , the most cunning of revolutionary writers would be successful in creating an effective balance between ideological effect and aesthetic technique . |
| 11 | Until recently the fact that the strength of engineering materials is usually only between one and five per cent of the strength of their chemical bonds was of little practical significance because the joints between the various component parts of structures were so inefficient that even the strength which the material had was scarcely used . |
| 12 | There is a very strong link between the list that I have read out and the authorities whose councillors advocated non-payment — Lambeth , for instance , whose councillors were so bad that even the Labour party had to remove them from office . |
| 13 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |