Example sentences of "have [adv] been so [adv] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Wisdom has never been so truly infinite
2 It had all been so incredibly easy .
3 He 'd come a long way for a dude from Texas , and it had all been so very easy for the man with the Gary Cooper smile .
4 Now he knew , and it had all been so damned easy .
5 If these social problems had not been so evidently worrying , it is highly unlikely that the active citizen would ever have been heard about .
6 You 've always been so very vague . ’
7 With Julius , though , it had always been so very physical , and she had n't been able to stop herself from responding to that great flood of passion .
8 That would have been comical if it had n't been so downright offensive .
9 But it had n't been so very red , more a reddish brown .
10 The very notion of becoming friendly with this arrogant , pig-headed latter-day Viking would have made her laugh if the situation had n't been so horribly unfunny .
11 Panic threatened to engulf him again , and the terrible desolate coldness was like an icy vice about his heart , and he knew he had never been so completely alone .
12 Ronni had never been so deliriously happy in her life .
13 Those portraits , and the chill damp of the ominously vacant house that contains them , have already been so vividly impressed on us by Dickens that , for many readers , this remains their dominant , and perhaps exclusive , impression .
14 Yet a closer look behind these stark figures suggests that the English have not been so peculiarly heartless .
15 After the official ceremony the party moved down to the Town Hall , and incidentally how appropriate that the Railway and the Railway Society that have always been so intimately involved with the town should hold its celebration at Bishop 's Castle 's ancient Town Hall with the mayor , district council chairman in attendance .
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