Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pastor Gunn and his fellow associates have given so much to us through their encouragement of truly living the Scriptures . |
| 2 | This is why all those scientists have given so much time and effort to such apparent trivia as Fermat 's Last Theorem and the advance of Mercury 's perihelion . |
| 3 | Not surprisingly , considering the complexity of the interaction of minds , language , and the world , the description we have given so far is highly simplified . |
| 4 | We thank you for those who were involved in the preservation of the church , and for our fellow Christians who have given so generously of themselves and their resources to make the work possible . |
| 5 | FEW companies have fallen so far and fast as IBM . |
| 6 | In recent years , it has been argued that the position and powers of the Prime Minister have altered so considerably that it makes sense to talk about the rise of prime ministerial government and the transformation of the Cabinet into yet another " dignified " part of the constitution . |
| 7 | Things have altered so much now . |
| 8 | It is the word we have heard so often in Genesis . |
| 9 | She dropped a curtsey and was waiting to be allowed through the door when Mrs Eckley said , ‘ Is this not Wilson , whom I have heard so much about , Ba ? ’ |
| 10 | This is the tropical rainforest you have heard so much about , and here it is remarkably accessible and in pretty good shape . |
| 11 | It 's pretty lucky that Mr Punch 's exclusive eight-point plan should be so eerily coincidental with the closure of Punch , of which we have heard so much . ’ |
| 12 | And having arrived in Zurich , or having returned there at the end of a tour round north Switzerland , visitors will probably want to spend a little time in a city about which they have heard so much . |
| 13 | Cos what we have heard so far this morning is certainly placing me in all of the local authority . |
| 14 | If theorists attempted this task it is likely that they would find themselves following in the footsteps of the more deterministic elements of Durkheim 's sociology , which have not the aspects they have favoured so far ( Deutscher , 1984 ; Farr , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | She has recently completed the Science Foundation Course of the Open University , but has had to postpone further study in the sciences for the time being because changes in Modern Language teaching at the Sixth Form College where she works have consumed so much of her time and energy . |
| 16 | Because philosophical argument and social theory have floated so far apart , the debate about reduction is liable to seem trivial — an arcane preoccupation which has no counterpart in studies of particular social phenomena . |
| 17 | ‘ The authorities responsible have developed so much uncertainty in themselves that they can not even show tolerance and rationality in dealing with our children , ’ the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ( ZCTU ) said . |
| 18 | Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away . |
| 19 | I have learnt enough about the Alexander Technique to realize that I have much more to learn , and that noticeable change can be a slow process , but I am more than happy with the benefits that I have received so far . |
| 20 | We have received so many wonderful letters on Tailwaggers but I 'm afraid we have n't room to print them all here . |
| 21 | We have received so many messages and letters that it is just not possible to acknowledge them individually . |
| 22 | But his procedure was different in an important way from any we have examined so far ; rather than counting the variants of a postulated underlying syntactic variable , he examined variation in the surface exponence of four semantic categories : hot news , resultative , extended now and indefinite anterior , exemplified by 39 , 40 , 43 and 44 . |
| 23 | I have sat so unnaturally still |
| 24 | It is not , however , a property in the same sense as we have used the term up to this point , since it is a second-order property ; that is , it is a property of the other two relations that we have sketched so far ( and only of these ) . |
| 25 | He says it 's great that people have responded so generously . |
| 26 | ‘ We are heartened by the fact producers have responded so quickly to the system . |
| 27 | Besides its famous specimens of Archaeopteryx , which have won so much popular attention , it has a marvellously preserved fauna and flora of great diversity , including ammonites which date it quite precisely as early Kimmeridgian in age . |
| 28 | ‘ You will perceive by the accompanying prospectus that I have commenced another work of much greater magnitude [ than the Century ] ; for my own part I should have been more anxious to have gone on with unfigured foreign birds and by that means have added so much the more interest to the science of ornithology , but the greater number of the subscribers to my other work not paying attention to birds generally but limiting themselves to those of our own country , they have frequently reiterated their request that I should commence a similar work on the Birds of [ 'this country ’ crossed out ] Europe and this has been the only motive for my undertaking so laborious a task . ’ |
| 29 | In 15 years the couple have added so many features and new plants to their garden that it bears no relation to the bare and treeless area they look over . |
| 30 | Said Mr Pleat : ‘ Since Christmas we have come so close — at Liverpool , Sheffield Wednesday and Southampton . ’ |