Example sentences of "were [vb pp] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most powerful were imprisoned ; traitors were beheaded and Catholic landowners like the Roscarrocks were fined so heavily that they were forced to sell property and make do with fewer and fewer servants . |
| 2 | The children were wedged so tightly that it was difficult to move . |
| 3 | Although she had been seen at the school less frequently over the past few years , rehearsals and contracts were organized so smoothly that the dancers had not noticed her gradual disappearance . |
| 4 | The services were cut so drastically that at the time no one in their right mind would have forecast that they would become so bad . |
| 5 | Huge stiffened but graceful garlands were hung from twenty-four tiny hooks set round the gallery parapet , and were constructed so cleverly that they gave the impression of winding around the gallery pillars . |