Example sentences of "[verb] [been] so in " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has been so in the MDC , although efforts were made to foster links with the now-defunct metropolitan county ( Boaden , 1982 ) . |
| 2 | Occasionally it is explained that they had already died — and given the still short life-expectancy of the period this must have been so in many cases . |
| 3 | But it would be a superficial reading of club ideology to view the movement simply in terms of its ‘ rescue ’ work , for though this may have been so in the early days , it was never the sole aim which would imply a passivity hardly reconcilable with the ambitions of the founders of clubs , or with that of the missions and settlement houses . |
| 4 | Half a century ago it would have been so in fact . |
| 5 | That might have been so in this nation , but it was not the case throughout the empire . |
| 6 | I had been so in love with her , and a part of me needed to mourn that loss of feeling . |
| 7 | At any rate it had been so in the past when Elmwood had been a private school . |
| 8 | This had been so in Emma 's day , and was so still , for once or twice Ruth had asked Rachaela some arithmetical question which Rachaela also found impossible to answer . |