Example sentences of "had been so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The narrow staircase that had been revealed when Guy had removed a grille from the wall of the tiny chamber had been so black that Isabel had forgotten her embarrassment at their surroundings . |
| 2 | I got the impression that Jean-Claude had been so certain that his relationship with his sister was the most singular she would ever make , that the mere fact of their not living under the same roof would do nothing to erode what they had together . |
| 3 | He had been so certain that his food could not be tampered with . |
| 4 | She had been so certain then that ‘ love ’ would mean ‘ forever ’ . |
| 5 | She had been so certain she 'd known all there was to know about the man in her arms — but she had n't . |
| 6 | I also wished to pay my respects to the Curator of the Natural History Museum , the late Finnur Gudmundsson , who had been so helpful in planning the trip . |
| 7 | Now , many people as they retrieved their fingers from the handshake were likely to tell you that their husband had just fathered an illegitimate child and ask your advice on how to proceed , or offer to give you the telephone number of their analyst/acupuncturist/homeopath/hypnotist who had been so helpful over their drink problem . |
| 8 | The H16 engine was designed for the 3-litre formula that came into effect in 1966 and was developed from mating a pair of the 1.5-litre V8s that had been so successful in the preceding years . |
| 9 | In the Far East , where Britain had been so successful in defeating Communist terrorism , there was also growing instability . |
| 10 | In the Portuguese elections of 1984 , where I was an adviser , it was quite a problem — it had always been done from the second floor — so I suggested the flatbed truck concept that had been so successful in Malta . |
| 11 | Katherine liked to believe that she was n't vindictive , but she did have certain rules , certain standards , both for her house and her business , and one of the reasons she had been so successful both in Dublin and now in London , was because she applied those rules rigorously . |
| 12 | ‘ However , in fairness to him , after we 'd done ‘ The Daleks ’ and it had been so successful , Donald Wilson said to me , ‘ I clearly do n't know anything about this series , and you do , so I 'll leave you alone ’ , which was nice of him . ’ |
| 13 | It had been so successful , mon cher — the audience that first night was in rapture — that I thought it would run and run . |
| 14 | The survey showed that breeding had been so successful that there were now three times as many swans than at the last census , taken in 1983 . |
| 15 | He said the ‘ green ’ scheme to upgrade caravan and leisure parks around Towyn had been so successful , a similar approach may be adopted in other tourism sectors in Wales . |
| 16 | By the time London Transport took them over in 1933 , all but two had been so modified . |
| 17 | Julia was relieved that that was out of the way and that David 's announcement had been so definite . |
| 18 | But his request had been so casual that to refuse would have seemed as if she was making an issue . |
| 19 | It was not a friendship of the kind that had been so frequent in Anselm 's early life . |
| 20 | It was pretty fucking annoying even if it was n't ; I really wanted to get the bastard because we 'd been having this stupid argument before we 'd started about how greed really was good and how William had been so disappointed at how poorly the argument was put across by the Gekko character in Wall Street . |
| 21 | To everyone 's amazement , she rushed to the defence of the driver who , in ferrying her to and from the course at Cely , had been so late on the second day as to put her in real fear of missing her starting time . |
| 22 | German influence in East Prussia had been so strong that over the years the southern strip of East Prussia , which was occupied by a large number of ethnic Poles , had become increasingly Germanised . |
| 23 | His desire to be gone had been so strong — the desire for movement — that he 'd seemed to be leaning into the wind . |
| 24 | He had been so strong , so brave . |
| 25 | His physical impact had been so strong . |
| 26 | It was difficult to believe that the party had been so recent ; too much had happened during the past thirty-six hours . |
| 27 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 28 | Over these erm past couple of weeks we 've been looking at er some of the questions in the New Testament , we thought a couple of weeks back of the question that Jesus asked his disciples , do you think I 'm able to do this and then last week we looked at a question that the disciples put to Jesus , that time when they came down from the mountain and they found the re , three of them came down with Jesus from the mountain of transfiguration and they found the other disciples with a man who and a , whose son was demon possessed and er they had been unable to help him and the man or brings his son to Jesus and Jesus delivers him and afterwards the disciples who had been so helpless put the question to Jesus , why could we not cast out this demon and this morning I 'd like us to look at another question , we 've got another one today and one God willing next week , er and the question is , is found in Luke chapter thirteen , let me just read a few verses , because of course it 's , it 's not just the questions , it 's the answers that are important as well in Luke chapter thirteen , gon na read from verse twenty two it says in Jesus was passing through from one city and village to another , teaching and proceeding on his way to Jerusalem now that gives us a clue in that , because Jesus only ever went to Jerusalem apart from when he was a boy , he only ever went to Jerusalem once and that , after since that time , and that was when he was crucified , so Jesus was now on his way to Jerusalem , it was the latter days , the latter weeks of the life of Jesus , he was making his way now to Jerusalem and someone said to him Lord are there just a few who are being saved and Jesus said to hi , to them , strive to enter by the narrow door for many I tell you will seek to enter and will not be able , once the head of the house gets up and shuts the door and you begin to stand outside and knock on the door saying Lord open to us , then he will answer and say to you I do not know where you are from , then you will begin to say we ate and drank in your presence and you taught in our streets , and he will say I tell you I do not know where you are from , depart from me all you evil doers , there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth there , when you see Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and all the profits in the kingdom of God , but yourselves being cast out and they will come from East and West and from North and South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , and behold some ar some are last who will be first and some are first who will be last , so it 's just that question then , let's remind ourselves that is put to Jesus Lord are there just a few who are being saved |
| 29 | Why my paternal so-called grandparents had been so stuffy the only time I met them . |
| 30 | Luckily , Avril 's course work had been so good she only had to finish her dissertation to pass — which she did . |