Example sentences of "so have [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | West African currencies , because of their rigid link to the French franc , are tied through the European Monetary System to the German mark , so have been heavily — and damagingly — upvalued against the American dollar . |
| 2 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |
| 3 | Ninety-two elements exist in nature and another dozen or so have been made by nuclear physicists . |
| 4 | But that 's cold comfort to the players who for the past two months or so have been attempting to qualify for the PGA European Tour . |
| 5 | Fairies greatly value human babies as a means of introducing new blood to their dwindling race , so have been known to steal them and leave a useless object behind . |
| 6 | In punting , too , I have had a tendency to reach for too much length and so have been prone to slicing my kicks . |
| 7 | ‘ Young people who were homeless or likely to become so have been helped , but … it is more difficult to help those sleeping rough , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Next Saturday my Medau friend Camilla and I are each going to swim 100 lengths non-stop ( as the ‘ Medau Duo ’ ) in the national charity swimming marathon ( as you might guess , it 's called a ‘ swimathon ’ ) , so have been collecting sponsors , which is rather more arduous than doing the actual swimming . |
| 9 | The remaining three thousand million years or so have been taken up by the slow process of biological evolution , which has led from the simplest organisms to beings who are capable of measuring time back to the big bang . |
| 10 | Unfortunately many were trade union members who lost their jobs and have not retained their union membership so have been lost to our organization . |
| 11 | The unions had already endured the Conservative Government 's policy of granting individual rights , thus increasingly undermining collective power ; the range of actions that trade union members can take has been increased , and the procedures for doing so have been simplified , for example , by some new actions being justiciable in Industrial Tribunals , or by referring the matter to the Certification Officer . |