Example sentences of "were so [adj] [conj] [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 | The quantity of wealth and the range of differences were so great and so new that it was difficult to assimilate it to any picture of how Zuwaya had done things in the past . |
| 4 | When the southernmost stars also were divided up , the whole situation became somewhat chaotic ; various astronomers invented their own constellations , some of which were so small and so obscure as to be unworthy of separate identity . |
| 5 | They were so accurate that frequently bees were ready and waiting when the experimenters arrived to refill the sugar solution . |
| 6 | ‘ We were so debauched and yet we thought we were hilarious . |
| 7 | William Dale claims the honour of being the first to reproduce it accurately in his Tschudi the harpsichord maker of 1913 : previous reproductions were so murky as almost to obliterate the harpsichord . |
| 8 | The fact that we did n't win when we were so close and then let it slip is very disappointing . ’ |
| 9 | Planners there began to ask why it was that their residential streets were so dull and so unsafe , and why it was impossible to do anything else there except drive cars , even though most of the time there were no moving cars . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | But I think er the old standards are so good and so strong you know we still get the odd good one coming out but the old ones were so good and so strong that even re-recorded with er even with the more modern I suppose er bit of arrangement still the great sounds from the . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Many were so appalling that even Himmler had been known to walk out of the showings , sick to the stomach . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In the years immediately following 1945 , however , foreign exchange markets were so disrupted and so strongly under the control of government that the post-war government could establish its own internal programme while relatively insulated from international financial forces . |
| 16 | The truth was that she would doze now and then — ten minutes here , twenty there ; but her dreams were so vivid and so close to her conscious fears that she might as well have been awake . |
| 17 | No one could find out why this apparently healthy young woman suffered symptoms which were so intense and yet so varied . |
| 18 | The Federation was , in any case , the undisputed representative of the Left at the Universities and the Labour Party would have been ill-advised to disaffiliate it while its opinions were so popular and widely accepted . |
| 19 | Floy thought they probably ought to be afraid themselves , because the Tree Spirits were so inHuman and so wild and so clearly filled with strange woodland magic that once they had finished with Balor they might very well turn to the two Renascians . |
| 20 | With help … ’ and her whispered words were so quiet that only Creggan and Kraal heard them . |
| 21 | Her courage and consideration were so remarkable that even close friends did not know until near the end that she was seriously ill . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Boniface made claims which were so large and so tactless as to produce enemies like dragon 's teeth , and the French king 's own ambitions eventually drove Boniface into Edward 's camp . |
| 26 | The marshes of Essex , he said , were so right-wing that even the newsagents were white . |