Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to [be] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its underwater design is a refinement of the ‘ pure centerboard ’ concept that has proven to be so fast and seaworthy on the race course in Ted Hood 's series of Robins . |
| 2 | Michèe Barrett refers in her essay to the ‘ turn to culture ’ in recent feminist work , and Griselda Pollock 's long essay in the volume Painting , Feminism , History gives us some idea of why culture ( in this case the visual arts ) has come to be so central . |
| 3 | To have continued to be so dependable and at the same time so exciting a batsman for so long , shows him to have been one of the greats of the game . |
| 4 | You 've got to be so careful . ’ |
| 5 | I 've got to be so careful , that 's the trouble , I never know when my boss is suddenly going to bite my head off . |
| 6 | She was about to tell him that was his own stupid fault and that she was n't here to wait on him — particularly since he had proved to be so inhospitable . |
| 7 | Among the Cheka people high intellectual standards combined with education and culture had not assumed the outward expression which I had found to be so hateful among the former Russian intellectuals … . |
| 8 | They finished packing and left the farmhouse , where they had hoped to be so happy . |
| 9 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 10 | How does theology stand vis-à-vis other disciplines , such as the natural sciences , which have come to be so important and successful with the passing centuries ? |
| 11 | I only hope that you will never have to read this letter — not because my life is worth anything to me but because it breaks my heart to think of you alone in a world which I have found to be so harsh and unforgiving . |