Example sentences of "it have [adv] [been] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well the atmosphere is very bad indeed in Belfast because er we had this before of course twenty years ago we had various bad situations but it has n't been so bad in recent years , but this last fortnight , er we 've had U V F killings , then we had this terrible bomb by the I R A killing the protestants in the Shankhill Road . |
| 2 | For members of the society it has never been so important to know these things . |
| 3 | If is often said that as people get older they care less what other people think , but it has never been so true as in the last 25 years , when women who were brought up to propitiate the more powerful sex gradually realised that it was no longer necessary — or , at least , not always necessary — to do so . |
| 4 | It was set in a triumphant smile , a smile that would have been smug if it had not been so full of the purest metaphysical good humour . |
| 5 | Jade is therefore very tough and would have been almost ideal for tools and weapons if only it had not been so difficult to work and so scarce . |
| 6 | I think the officers really are to be congratulated , and erm , one ca n't sort of guess what could have happened if it had n't been so professional , but I suspect the fact that we won , what we 've won , is a result of the professionalism of our and I really would like to congratulate |
| 7 | If it had n't been so hot , if there had been no row the night before , if Dennis had n't passed out , if I 'd fallen asleep , if any of the others had been there , if Karen had come back later , if she 'd gone straight to the pool rather than taken a shower , if any or all of these had been the case , then intercourse would not have occurred . |
| 8 | Or maybe it had n't been so pathetic . |
| 9 | The relief on Joe 's face would have been comic if it had n't been so worrying . |
| 10 | Travis carried her outside , then back to bed when she called , handling her with a care that would have made her feel cherished if it had n't been so impersonal . |
| 11 | If it had n't been so awful it would have been almost comical , the thought that Luke Calder had been virtually accused of kerb-crawling ! |
| 12 | A living death , it had seemed to him and Jim , but maybe it had n't been so bad . |
| 13 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 14 | It had n't been so wet earlier , when Benny had left for her first day at college . |
| 15 | If it had n't been so quiet , it could have been Paddington station during a commuter cull . |
| 16 | Might have been summer if it had n't been so cold . |
| 17 | It had never been so low , and by then virtually the whole of the ( non-Neath ) rest of Welsh rugby was pulling against the national team . |
| 18 | Doreen , loyal to her role of concubine , had tried to cheer him up by saying that it had never been so good . |
| 19 | The boys and I agreed that it had all been so worthwhile . |
| 20 | It seemed as though she had hardly done anything , it had all been so simple . |
| 21 | It had all been so simple until now . |
| 22 | It had all been so flimsy that Pascoe had hesitated about presenting it to Dalziel . |
| 23 | It had all been so fast , she could hardly believe what had happened . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's just been so nice visiting with you , Nick ! ’ |
| 25 | No but it I mean it 's just been so long , it I I said to him , can I do this trial and he said , and i explained everything about it and he said , yes try it . |
| 26 | ‘ As far as actually ‘ working out ’ is concerned , I 've been doing a lot this year , but not since rehearsals began because it 's just been so crazed . |
| 27 | And they say it 's never been so good ! |
| 28 | ‘ It 's never been so clean in its life . |
| 29 | It 's never been so clear |
| 30 | Well that 's cos it 's always been so light |