Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so [det] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The RSPCA has received so many calls for advice on ostrich farming that its now drawn up guidelines to ensure they 're farmed humanely .
2 The course was n't advertised because the WSR has received so many requests from people wanting to ride on the footplate that it was able to pick out only serious enthusiasts .
3 The causes of economic and employment decline in the cities have been the subjects of the most extensive studies — no other area of urban research has received so much attention .
4 The reason that it has received so much attention is not primarily that it is of practical importance ( although it has applications , e.g. Sections 26.2 , 26.5 , 26.6 ) , but rather that it has become a context for the development of ideas about the consequences of instability and evolution towards turbulent motion .
5 It is surprising that in his time and ever since , his culpability has received so little attention .
6 Though this must be one of the main reasons why Germany has received so few Nobel prizes since the war , nothing more can be done about it .
7 Editor , — No other part of the body has aroused so much passion and misconception as the foreskin , mainly because both surgical and personal considerations are concerned .
8 There were also many other gorgeous flowers for this beautiful actress , who has given so many theatregoers great joy by her performances over the years .
9 It seems doubtful that any other photographer has given so much attention to the condition of trees growing in close proximity to urban man .
10 Victor Mature , who has given so much pleasure in his day that nothing must be said against him , is , however , not wholly convincing sitting in a cell wearing a leather mini-skirt , reading Pythagoras .
11 He gives us two kinds : salty recollections , verses and songs of the rank-and-file ( surely no previous volume from this august publisher has contained so many f-words and c-words ) ; and more elegant expressions of disillusion from the intelligentsia .
12 Left at the side of the rutted washboard that has claimed so many victims , it was a poignant reminder that the desert takes a dim view of those who treat it with such disdain .
13 Undoubtedly , part of the reason that this decision has attracted so much comment is that it was a rather " un-Gaullist " one : for once , the General took the route of facilité rather than that of inflexibilité .
14 And the issue is not simply that of deteriorating staff-student ratios , which has attracted so much attention , but at least as much a question of capital investment .
15 This explains the bardolatry which has dominated so much writing about Shakespeare .
16 BUILDER Les Jones has won so many awards for the quality of his work that he could justify a trophy room in his show house .
17 Easthope has his own version of the myth of catastrophe that has possessed so many critics and theorists .
18 Our own century has seen so many movements against the conflation of scientific and religious language that we may , on purely philosophical criteria , judge him to have been misguided .
19 ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale .
20 The result has been that a century which has seen so much development in terms of resources and method in historical research , has also seen a recurrent historical scepticism in theology .
21 Still popular , and made in new materials with plastic or nylon sail , the Peter Powell kite has introduced millions to the sight of its long tube tails following the looping flight pattern , and still , after over 15 years of its production when all else around has seen so much change , is a firm recommendation for anyone wishing to take up stunt flying for the first time .
22 It is particularly appropriate that this first annual review from the Institute and Faculty comes at the end of a year which has seen so much co-operation between our two organisations .
23 He took the list , that list right there , and he went like this with it — I was sitting across the table — and he said , ‘ For someone who has seen so much war as you have , North , you should understand that I want to end the war on terms that are acceptable to Iran .
24 They follow the profession of shepherds , which has spawned so many prophets , for it is a contemplative , philosophical and benign occupation .
25 ‘ She is now so far up the beach and has suffered so much damage that it would be physically impossible to get her off , ’ said Orkney 's Marine Pollution Officer , Captain Bob Sclater .
26 She regrets she has missed so many lessons .
27 Rarely in Rover 's history has there been a time when it has done so many things so well as now .
28 That is what has done so much damage to local government .
29 In Romania , the government led by the reform communists who overthrew the dictatorship of Ceausescu has made so many mistakes that it may get a bad surprise in the parliamentary and presidential elections on May 20th .
30 But that was in 1909 and she has had so many successors that the device now sticks out like a sore thumb and must be used only with the greatest care and deftness of touch .
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