Example sentences of "been [verb] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |
| 4 | The idea has been taken up by the British Library , and by Scottish university libraries , though no dramatic results appear to have been registered so far as acquisition practice is concerned . |
| 5 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 6 | Such arrangements have for some time been permitted so long as clients are fully informed of the nature of the company and the profits go to the firm . |
| 7 | HWIM , Hearsay-II , and HARPY , examples of the Symbol Processing paradigm , can construct representations of the processing that has been done so far and operate on the individual hypotheses within that space . |
| 8 | Some of these matters clearly fall within the ‘ good neighbour ’ concept , ’ while others are based on the principle that compensation is not to be paid merely because maximum exploitation has been prevented so long as development of a reasonably remunerative character is allowed . |
| 9 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ It has hardly been seen so far and it really must go on public view . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Words such as peto contentus sis seem to have been used so widely that they soon raised no doubts or difficulties of interpretation . |
| 15 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |
| 16 | In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | How rich it is to hear the Scottish Labour leader impugn the integrity of the SNP when the integrity of Labour Party policies in the last year has been stretched so far as to be invisible . |
| 21 | The allegation had been spoken so quietly that he doubted whether she had in fact heard it . |
| 22 | Thirty of them had been drinking so heavily that they forgot to get off at Peterborough to catch their connection to Harwich . |
| 23 | Without warning he grabbed her tennis racquet — which she 'd been swinging so nonchalantly and grasping her by the scruff of the neck , pushed her roughly over the back of a chair . |
| 24 | So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Why had they been killed so barbarously and so mysteriously ? |
| 27 | I agree with him that an unsatisfactory situation er was created in our legislation and in passing I would like to say how much we all welcome , I 'm sure the efforts of my Noble Friend to get legislation simplified , but erm on this particular matter which he has raised , I would like to try to comfort him if that is possible , because erm by getting rid of the er the sections two two A and three of the Police Act as they er nineteen sixty four as they have been amended and er substituting this clause to the Bill simplification will in fact have been achieved so far as the form is concerned . |
| 28 | A world where every Western youth culture since the dawn of teenage has been assimilated so completely that Tokyo has become a sociological Disneyland . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Claudia did n't know Garry , or even his surname ; Dana had always had men in her life , but she had n't seemed serious about any of them , and so far Claudia had hoped in vain that she would find someone to love and to provide the anchor she 'd been missing so badly since their mother had died . |