Example sentences of "[been] [verb] so [adv] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 2 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 3 | French Socialists prepare to feast on crumbs of comfort The Socialists have been told so often that they are heading for total rout in tomorrow 's election that they will be relieved if they manage the 20 per cent predicted by the polls , writes Diana Geddes in Paris |
| 4 | As for the Socialists , they have been told so often that they are heading for a total rout that they will actually be relieved if they manage to get the 20 per cent which the last polls were predicting . |
| 5 | Words such as peto contentus sis seem to have been used so widely that they soon raised no doubts or difficulties of interpretation . |
| 6 | It is , of course , impossible to foresee the future , but the effective demise of the Catholic Church has been prophesied so often that it seems wiser to conclude that the vast movement of transformation begun by Vatican II will not be easily ended either internally or externally . |
| 7 | In contrast , in smaller and more informal gatherings such as house Masses , the power this can release has often been experienced so impressively that one wonders whether the new liturgy was not given to the Church prophetically , with a view to new circumstances which were to come , but which till now have been realized only unevenly . |
| 8 | Since I have been in the Chair , the Chief Secretary has been interrupted so often that there has not been much opportunity for him to do that . |
| 9 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 10 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 11 | Students have to show that they understand what has been learned so deeply that they are able to look down on it and assess it critically for themselves . |
| 12 | A world where every Western youth culture since the dawn of teenage has been assimilated so completely that Tokyo has become a sociological Disneyland . |
| 13 | It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used . |