Example sentences of "been so [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , time moves on and Maxwell rose from the ashes of this setback , but it is remarkable that the telling verdict of the DTI inquiry should have been so utterly dismissed by the risk-assessors of so many banks . |
| 2 | These frameworks can not have been so utterly objectified , if they provide the elements which permit the growth of religious belief . |
| 3 | Laura cried , struggling to sit up on the wide leather rear seat of the large car , where she had been so unceremoniously tossed only a moment before . |
| 4 | Never had anything been so well trumpeted to me ; surely there had been an element of hyperbole from so many colleagues and friends who had been going to the jamboree for years ? |
| 5 | The story of biblical criticism has been so well documented and so often told that I will not recount it . |
| 6 | The office had never been so well run . |
| 7 | The reason is simple : the notes on paper have been so well assimilated . |
| 8 | The rest had been so well prepared for work by their previous sixteen years of socialisation that they found few problems . |
| 9 | In this respect , pregnant girls at Arbour are also very knowledgeable and confident about giving birth because they have been so well prepared for it , and tend to sail through labour and birth without a lot of problems . |
| 10 | The worrying point is that the England squad had never been so well prepared generally , but were specifically ill-prepared to counter the decisive factor — spin . |
| 11 | She no longer provided him with a defence against his own yearning for safety which had been so well hidden behind his off-hand behaviour . |
| 12 | Mason took his unbeaten record to 33 fights by a margin of 98 ½-97 , or three rounds , but rarely in a British ring have two heavyweights been so well matched . |
| 13 | ‘ British insects have been so well recorded that the discovery of new species is the icing on the cake of the study , ’ said Dr Holmes . |
| 14 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 15 | A more efficient harness than the crude yoke , which had been so well suited for draught-oxen , was introduced about the ninth century . |
| 16 | Stone handled the action scenes with skill : rarely have the acute tensions of a night ambush and the savagery of jungle combat been so well conveyed . |
| 17 | This man , whose name was so familiar to her , whose company 's recent comings and goings on the stock-market had been so well chronicled , and of some special interest to her , was a great deal younger than she had expected . |
| 18 | Even had you not been so well acquainted with the family , I dare say . |
| 19 | They have been so well brought up , they put the rest of us to shame . ’ |
| 20 | Though there has been a clear public responsibility for the long-term residents of mental hospitals , public responsibility for those discharged has not been so well established . |
| 21 | Walter Bagehot 's The English Constitution , published in 1867 , constituted a classic description of a Constitution that had not previously been so well sketched , yet a Constitution that was to undergo significant modifications as a result of the passage that very year of the Second Reform Act . |
| 22 | Time had never been so well watched over . |
| 23 | When this cloud settles on the skin it causes a red rash , but it is no more than an irritation and certainly nothing to justify the terrible image of this animal that has been so relentlessly fostered by cheap novels and films . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | However , his conception of the ‘ underclass ’ , its causation and policy remedies , differs markedly from those of the far Right whose views have been so easily absorbed into British government and establishment thinking . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Indeed , the speaker would go further ; never in his experience had Britain been so ably represented in the councils of the Common Market . |
| 28 | The very success of material culture studies in having been so firmly integrated into the older paradigm meant that such studies become invalidated by their own historical associations , and were no longer able to play a significant role in the new anthropology . |
| 29 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 30 | In the next moment after Peter has been so firmly put right by Jesus , he has an experience that he is never to forget . |