Example sentences of "have so [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Doc 's diagnosis of defender Gary Pallister 's frailties has so incensed Fergie and his players that they are refusing to do interviews for Piccadilly Radio , the station which employs Docherty . |
| 2 | It is the level of the government 's ongoing commitment to honour the recommendations over pay and conditions of the Nurses ' and Midwives ' Pay Review Body ( PRB ) which has so incensed the professions . |
| 3 | The Protestant majority in Ulster wished to remain part of the United Kingdom , and the province of Northern Ireland has so remained . |
| 4 | But at least as instructive is its analysis of why the problem has so burgeoned . |
| 5 | BMW claims that this far more sophisticated ( and , no doubt , expensive ) rear suspension finally lays to rest the spectre of lift-off oversteer which has so bedevilled the 3-series over the years — albeit to a much lesser degree with the outgoing model which , in Sport form at least , we found to be well balanced and responsive rather than inherently tail happy . |
| 6 | The legitimacy of present-day regimes depends to an overwhelming extent , and has so depended since the end of the Second World War , upon the effective promotion of a high rate of economic growth ; and if that rate becomes increasingly difficult to sustain , and tends to decline , as a result of both social and physical limits to growth , what will take its place as a legitimating purpose for governments ? |
| 7 | In fifty years from then began the great wave of late Victorian building , which has so altered the appearance of places like Ambleside , especially if one compares old Church Street or the Market Place in Green 's time , to 1860 , and with what it has become today . |
| 8 | The fighting has so disrupted the country that some observers believe it may divide between north and south along ethnic lines , or into a patchwork of Islamic fiefdoms controlled by the Mujahideen tribal warlords . |
| 9 | If you swear that her little one-off has so turned you against her that you could n't possibly bear to live with her any longer , you 'll get your divorce . |
| 10 | This is the only area of central Prague that has so suffered . |
| 11 | But if rationalism and empiricism have a tendency to blot out God , we must recognise that the Enlightenment 's supreme beguilement which has so bewitched modern men and women is a false understanding of human beings . |
| 12 | As to whether it has also increased proportionally is a matter that could only be determined empirically , although one could surmise that it has so increased . |
| 13 | This is another aspect of my work with film that has so fascinated me : the physiognomy of a great orchestra when the players are really concentrating , really absorbed in the process of music-making . |
| 14 | Without wanting to appear too sanguine , and without trivializing the persistent phenomenon of right-wing extremism and the need to maintain vigilance against it , the full realization of the responsibility which Hitler bears for the untold agonies suffered by millions has so discredited everything he stood for in the eyes of sane persons everywhere that , except in circumstances beyond the scope of our realistic imagination , it is difficult to see that there could be a resurrection or a new variant of the once-mighty ‘ Hitler myth ’ , with its power to capture the imagination of millions . |
| 15 | I find it odd that the position has so changed compared with 15 months ago when I became Secretary of State , when some Conservative Members were alleging that standards had declined and Opposition Members were denying those allegations . |
| 16 | I have this day received a letter from Dearest Mary about that which has so distressed me , your unbelievable decision to place Allegra in a convent — |
| 17 | The work of Freud , for example , has so entered our habits of thought that we now label ‘ objective ’ various forms of behaviour which would formerly have been regarded as reactive . |
| 18 | It is a condition that has so worsened over the years that I no longer dare perform introductions I simply mumble ’ You two must know each other ’ and leave them to sort it out . |
| 19 | This is equally important and has so proved throughout ballet history . |
| 20 | The proposal of the Leader of the Opposition to spend the money that is now spent on British farmers on farmers in southern Europe is something about which every farmer should know — unless the Opposition spokesman will advise him differently and tell the House when he has so advised him . |
| 21 | Yet the opacity and lack of conviction of this paper has so disappointed directors that no vote will now take place . |
| 22 | They moved to Dallas , and Graham has so immersed himself in the American way of life that I am surprised he has not sought American citizenship . |
| 23 | The major adult course to appear this year will be Headway Elementary , the fifth and last of the OUP series which has so dominated the UK and European market for seven years . |
| 24 | Mansell has so dominated pre-season testing in his Ford-powered Lola that he is expected to win on Sunday by the large margin familiar during his dominance of Grand Prix racing in the Williams Renault last season . |
| 25 | By middle age Bartram has so educated himself in the classics , sciences , medicines and above all , botany , that he was regarded as one of the intellectuals of his time . |
| 26 | A PLAN to close one of Machynlleth 's two hospitals has so angered local people that town councillors are to fight the proposal . |
| 27 | All these four reasons are subject to varying degrees of criticism : Unskilled manual jobs may well be done just as well , if not better , by the less educated ; resistance to change in employment can be affected more by the alternative job opportunities that are available than by levels of education ; advanced industrialisation has so atomised and de-skilled the production process that for many workers further or higher education is not necessary in their jobs , etc. , etc . |
| 28 | ‘ Pain in the housing market should finally kill off the British obsession with housing which has so distorted resource allocation in the last 25 years . |
| 29 | The proliferation of this literature has so simplified going into our wilderness areas that readers are literally taken by the hand . |
| 30 | It continued : " A people which has so enriched our common civilization is recovering its rightful place in Europe and in the world . " |