Example sentences of "been so [adv] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not since Mavis mourned the passing of Harriet the budgie has a death been so dramatically evoked as that in which Ted finally succumbed to rigor mortis . |
| 2 | Rarely can St Augustine 's dictum that bands of brigands are but petty kingdoms without justice ( City of God , iv , 4 ) have been so easily comprehended as in the eleventh century . |
| 3 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |
| 4 | Rarely , however , have these two benefits been so effectively combined as in the new DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN from Reader 's Digest . |
| 5 | Not for many years has the complacency of the legal profession about the state of our legal system been so severely jolted as by the series of lectures delivered in the last fortnight by Sir Leslie Scarman , a distinguished Lord Justice of Appeal . |