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

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1 You see they , they 've only got so long on this site with that van
2 This writer has never attended a more populated exhibition of Old Masters and has rarely overheard so much intelligent discussion , particularly from ‘ ordinary ’ visitors .
3 Funk has rarely sounded so heavy , or rock so groovy .
4 Funk has rarely sounded so heavy , or rock so groovy .
5 In the first edition I felt I owed a debt of gratitude to my old teacher , Professor Geoffrey Lampe , who has since died so courageously of cancer , to close friends , the Revd.
6 I ‘ m sure you will all be aware of the projected plan to allow building on the land known as Curriemuirend and the action group that was formed to rally support to oppose this and has effectively done so .
7 In a move which has upset Leeds ' manager Howard Wilkinson , Batty said : ‘ I had heard that Blackburn were interested but it has all happened so quickly .
8 ‘ The catch in this heaven , ’ she went on , ‘ is that the brain has only got so much dopamine to offer , and once the cocaine has used it all up , then that 's the end of the pleasure .
9 Primitive , that is pre-literate , societies of the present period also exhibit restrictions on the instincts , but have less physical security because technology has not developed so far .
10 He was the leading European in both the Players ' Championship and at New Orleans — and even he admits he has not felt so confident since he approached the St Andrews Open of 1990 , which he won .
11 ‘ She has not said so . ’
12 The Welsh Health Planning Forum has developed differential targets along these lines for the NHS in Wales , but in general the rest of the United Kingdom has not progressed so far .
13 He has not done so . ’
14 That he has not done so tends to confirm that the firing was a spontaneous action triggered by the unexpected escalation of Mr Buchanan 's attack on the NEA .
15 The Landscape Institute publishes no percentage fee scale , and has not done so for many years .
16 Even now he has not done so , although the judge set aside the statutory demand nearly five months ago .
17 He has not done so and , therefore , it would be out of order for the Hon. Gentleman to pursue his present line of argument under this new clause
18 I believed that he might bring forward such an amendment , but he has not done so .
19 If the hon. Gentleman believes that there is evidence of criminality , he should draw it to the attention of the police , if he has not done so already .
20 He has not done so either in his evidence to the Committee or on the Floor of the House .
21 The Austrian government , however , has not done so , claiming that closure would result in an inadequate electricity supply for the Czechoslovaks , it being too impractical and expensive to supply this from other sources .
22 The total has grown since the present service was set up in 1948 , although in fact the proportion of children in care per thousand of the total population under 18 has not altered so much .
23 ( In primary schools , there has been a similar move , but by no means to the same extent ; primary IT has not suffered so much , as a result , from a leaning toward mathematics and science . )
24 It has not proved so .
25 Our intimacy has not proceeded so far .
26 One of the reasons why the purchasing power parity theorem has not worked so well over short periods is that the influence on currencies of current account flows has diminished , while capital account transactions have assumed a greater role .
27 It is a world that ought to have vanished , and has largely done so , yet it persists in certain tired imaginations .
28 Our special guest Adam Faith , he 's in Alfie , which is at Nottingham 's Theatre Royal on the twenty eighth of March next year and the box office has just opened so can actually er go there to see not just a performance I think , not just a play , but something of an event .
29 Indeed , it has already done so , as evidenced by the Community 's co-ordination of the Western effort to support reform in East Europe .
30 He has already done so in respect of civil non-matrimonial legal aid and is considering the responses to that .
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