Example sentences of "were so [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Too often in the past , he said , politicians had been bamboozled by specialists into believing that the problems were so great that the answer was to set up bodies like the UGC and let them make the decisions . |
| 2 | The youngsters were so delighted when the final whistle went that they all jumped on the luckless coach , bruising his ribs so badly that he was ruled out of the next weekend 's third team fixture . |
| 3 | The Montgomerie family finances continued on their downwards spiral until , in 1925 , they were so low that the contents of Eglinton Castle had to be auctioned off , including the suit of armour bought by the 13th Earl for the Tournament . |
| 4 | I preferred them when they were fresh because they had a bit of a tang later on , but they were so good that the thought of them makes me hungry . |
| 5 | Alan 's ideas were so good that the Creative Director could n't believe they were his and set him a difficult test which had to be carried out in the agency . |
| 6 | For the political adventurers and profiteering fat- cats these were palmy days — indeed corruption and political fraud were so rife that the Trinidadian ‘ bobol'or fraud became a byword in the political life of the Caribbean . |
| 7 | Her dreams were so vivid while the poem shimmered on her desk — signed , sealed , undelivered — that she had to catch herself from grabbing Lucy 's hands , kissing her right out in the street , holding her close at the end of each day , saying , come home , darling ; grabbing her and flinging her to the floor , ripping her clothes off , sinking into her breasts , fucking her like a sheet of flame . |
| 8 | Minton not only accepted invitations to dinner , in the digs Ted Dicks shared with another Royal College student who later became a famous thriller-writer , Len Deighton , he also shared a desire to participate in the revues Dicks mounted in the Common Room in Cromwell Road and which were so renowned that the entrance queue often tailed all the way back to South Kensington tube station . |
| 9 | West Germany 's contingent in the European Army was restricted in size and in the types of weapons it could use , and the guarantees against German misbehaviour were so ornate that the EDC treaty had more than 150 articles . |
| 10 | Do you remember Uncle Charles Lane building a bomb-proof wall outside the kitchen ? — and how you were so excited when the raids came because it meant Pop and I were able to stop work and play idiotic games with the three of you ? ! |
| 11 | Her clothes were so fashionable that the country people would have noticed her . |
| 12 | Indeed , many of the homes said that the fees from supplementary benefit were so adequate that the people who came in on that ticket were given some of the best accommodation in the establishment . |
| 13 | By 3 p.m. , the explosions were so loud that they were audible 240 kilometres away ; by 5 p.m. they were so stupendous that the sound was carrying all over Java . |
| 14 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 15 | LEVELS OF radioactive dust found in a home near the Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Cumbria were so high that the owners felt they had to move their two young sons to safety immediately , the High Court was told yesterday . |
| 16 | But there were also two major objections to Skybolt : it was the most expensive of the air mobile options ; and the Americans pointed out that the technological risks were so high that the project might well fail . |
| 17 | In 1828 , for example , when Coleman was sadly in need of an operating theatre , the various builders ' estimates were so high that the project was abandoned ‘ for the time being ’ . |
| 18 | Does he have any figures to support his claim that , in some parts of the country , such campaigns were so vigorous that the Department had to take action ? |