Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It may be appropriate to end this section with a quotation from H. C. A. Somerset whose research on examination and selection in African schools has done so much to clarify problems and suggest solutions : |
| 2 | Together these produce a powerful effect , and , after reviewing them and the way they work , it becomes very much less surprising that the semantic essence of syntactic constructions has proved so elusive in the past . |
| 3 | Hooliganism involving Dutch supporters has become so frequent as to suggest that another blanket ban of a nation 's clubs might be necessary . |
| 4 | Never can these songs have sounded so original , so achingly tense as here . |
| 5 | The full list of schools to have entered so far is : Harton Comprehensive School , South Shields ; Ian Ramsey School , Hartburn , Stockton ; Sedgefield Community College , Sedgefield ; Boroughbridge High School , Boroughbridge ; Greencroft Comprehensive School , Stanley ; Lanchester St Bede 's Comprehensive School , Lanchester ; Filey School , Filey ; Hermitage Comprehensive School , Chester-le-Street ; Ferryhill Comprehensive School , Ferryhill ; Scalby School , Newby , Scarborough ; Brackenhole School , Middlesbrough ; Hedworthfield Comprehensive School , Jarrow ; Royal Grammar School , Newcastle . |
| 6 | In that time I followed the course of the massive city walls which over the centuries had sustained so many assaults before falling at last to the Turkish onslaught . |
| 7 | ‘ I thought forensic methods had become so refined that it would be impossible to touch gelignite without some traces lingering about one 's person . |
| 8 | But all the other animals had grown so suspicious of El-ahrairah and his tricks that they would not let him out of that wretched country and every day Prince Rainbow used to come walking through the marshes to make sure that El-ahrairah was still there . |
| 9 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 10 | He plundered the opposition and hired Pearce Marchbank , a designer whose covers had done so much to establish the identity of Time Out on newsstands , as co-editor , along with Al Clark . |
| 11 | Most of the practices making savings had done so on their hospital budgets , and this was attributed to a combination of setting favourable contracts , making fewer referrals , and doing more minor surgery in house . |
| 12 | Little wonder , then , that disk doubling utilities have become so popular — Digital Research even included one , SuperStor , with DR-DOS 6.0 , and Microsoft is including its own proprietary compression utility with MS-DOS 6.0 . |
| 13 | It was , wrote the best-known and most influential of them , the Abbe de Saint-Pierre , ‘ that vain Idol to which the Nations have Sacrificed so blindly , so fruitlessly , and for so long a Time , so much Blood and Treasure ’ . |
| 14 | While these means of human communication are fundamental to our culture , other technological means of communication such as television , radio and computers have become so powerful and specialized that they can greatly influence how we perceive and accept new information . |
| 15 | Night Goblins have become so accustomed to the dark that when they come out into the open they prefer to move around at night and hide away during the day . |
| 16 | Because the authors have kept so many different cichlids over the year , the normal run of filters often prove to be unsuitable in a given situation . |
| 17 | That 's why yields have grown so much because there 's been a certainty of relatively high and growing prices , and therefore , in , in order to , to maximize their income , farmers are , er , maximizing yields . |
| 18 | One of the reasons why the polytechnics have done so well in the past 21 years is that a clear decision was taken by Governments of both parties to separate funding and quality control . |
| 19 | His books have done so much to popularise the sport . |
| 20 | The Army began calling up reserves for combat training for the first time in the crisis to date ( the Marines having done so a week previously ) . |
| 21 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 22 | He suggested that one reason his parents had talked so much about it was that ‘ they really were like oil and water , and the only thing they really agreed about was the ballet . |
| 23 | This would be possible , Lenin believed , because the majority of state administrative functions had become so simplified that they could be ‘ reduced ’ to such simple operations as registering , filing and checking — mere routine . |
| 24 | The Communists had gone so far towards accepting any ally that the Daily Worker expressed hopes that " this may prove to be a new , broad democratic movement , based primarily on the youth of the country " . |
| 25 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 26 | If Harry 's circumstances had changed so vitally , so too had hers . |
| 27 | In some policies the two problems are seen to be combined where the systems of farming collectively called shifting cultivation have reached a point where their carrying capacity has been exceeded , and fallow periods have become so short that degradation and erosion have set in ( Allan 1967 ) . |
| 28 | Our social mores have changed so much that it is easy to single out as personal characteristics those which were actually held in common by neatly everyone . |
| 29 | The general opinion is that Third World countries have suffered so dreadfully under the debt burden , they would not make the same mistake again . |
| 30 | Contributions which he and his workmates have made so far exceed a splendid £1,576 . |