Example sentences of "[was/were] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her body-was so slim and fragile one got the feeling that if she fell over she would smash into a thousand pieces , like a porcelain figure . |
| 2 | This made the task of the prosecutor somewhat easier , but it had the paradoxical effect that a person who distributed such material with a mischievous intention could argue that the recipients of his material were unlikely to be influenced by it , and he was therefore not guilty if his audience were already corrupt , or were members of an anti-racist organisation , or if the publication or spoken words were so contrary to human decency that they would be likely to provoke sympathy for the intended victim rather than hatred of him . |
| 3 | Then , when he returned — which he always did , as quickly as possible , for Smugglers ' Cove ( and its occupant ) were so strong a magnet that he often drove home through the night — then she was unfailingly reassured . |
| 4 | The waves of protest were so strong that I almost gave up there and then . |
| 5 | Accents were so strong they could not even understand each other . |
| 6 | Even before IRCA , the ties between Mexican workers and the American labour market were so strong that migration was bound to increase . |
| 7 | ‘ Those days Australia were so strong that once you were out of the team it was extremely difficult to get back in . |
| 8 | It was hard , travelling home in that bus , and surrounded by the immense , evident , and varied liberties of people and land , to believe in the small impossibilities of her own home , and she felt , as she so frequently felt , the will to believe it to be different : the truth was too grotesque and too unnatural , and her hopes were so strong that she carelessly let them wander a little , giving them a little leeway , letting them sniff and pry and explore . |
| 9 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 10 | For the first time he understood why the Seven were so strong . |
| 11 | But then , the past is always impressive : ‘ Those nineteenth-century portraits were so strong . |
| 12 | The people were so strong in the faith for which their forebears had fought and suffered ; their steadfastness and courage , handed down through the ages , lived on in the men and women who only a few years ago had defied the invader of their homeland . |
| 13 | Her own memories were so strong that she feared that she would burst into hysterics before him , and that would never do . |
| 14 | The military influences which were so strong in diplomacy in central and eastern Europe were therefore by no means unknown in the great western states as well . |
| 15 | It has to though because if in the pa if they 've had this long-term sort of culture for all this time they need to be given ideas but essentially if their traditional values were so strong they would have rejected what the Communist Party was trying to say , but because they accepted it it meant they ha they did actually have the potential to be revolutionary . |
| 16 | Only one of those five Councils is Labour controlled , the other four are Conservative , or indeed one of them 's Independent because the West Oxfordshire Councillors left the Tory Party because they were so disgusted with the Tory Government 's housing policy . |
| 17 | Nuclear weapons were so destructive that those states which possessed them had to be very careful about getting involved in any conflicts , whether with other nuclear states or with their allies . |
| 18 | She enjoyed nearly everything , even widow 's weeds perhaps most of all widow 's weeds , as her married life had not been as exciting as she might have wished , and besides , they were so graceful and pretty . |
| 19 | Most evenings they were so exhausted they had to be carried home on their parents ' shoulders . |
| 20 | All that beautiful silver and the linen , which was fresh every time , and the staff were so friendly . |
| 21 | In France many noblemen , especially those of middling to lower rank , were so impoverished that they needed the king 's wages , which provided them with a better and surer income than did their lands . |
| 22 | The nearest Jaguar agents were in Vienna , where he had taken it for its first service , but the electronic engine management and monitoring systems were so complex that he wanted them checked over by experts . |
| 23 | San Francisco has had a privatised police force since 1851 , when the city cops were so desperate for help that they sold off districts to private enterprise . |
| 24 | He hoped that the people of the occupied territories were so desperate for an end to Israeli rule that they would respond to his overtures . |
| 25 | They had been orphaned and were so desperate for work that they auditioned while still mourning . |
| 26 | Bankruptcy stared the Nazis in the face , and for a while they were so desperate that they actually considered introducing the zloty as a way of stabilising the currency and restoring calm . |
| 27 | Police say his victims ignored the risks because they were so desperate to make a sale after the slump hit their business . |
| 28 | I fear you were so desperate to hide the size of the increases in charges you were planning behind the Home Secretary 's statement ( on juvenile crime ) , that you simply abused the system . |
| 29 | Now , for the first time , Heaps reveals the true story of the Reichmanns and the family secret that they were so desperate to conceal |
| 30 | Was that because they were so desperate for it ? |