Example sentences of "been [verb] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was just saying to Malcolm how surprised I 'd been to see so many your men at Doreen 's funeral , but I shut up when the police arrived . |
| 2 | These facilities make VSAM more similar to database software than most of the file organization techniques that have been examined so far — in fact , many of the database systems available for mini- and micro-computers provide only this multiple index facility . |
| 3 | In the simplified models that have been examined so far , this probability turns out to be high ; that is , the proposed no boundary condition leads to the prediction that it is extremely probable that the present rate of expansion of the universe is almost the same in each direction . |
| 4 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 5 | In the case of regulated agreements , the common law rule has been overturned so that s56(2) of CCA 1974 provides that antecedent negotiations shall be deemed to be conducted by the dealer , " in the capacity of agent of the creditor as well as in his actual capacity " . |
| 6 | If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified . |
| 7 | Infas said 10pc of West Germans and 4pc in the formerly Communist East agreed wholeheartedly with the statement : ‘ It is the Jews ’ own fault that they have been persecuted so often in their history . ’ |
| 8 | This powerful technique has been limited so far to molecules that can be excited by CO 2 lasers , which have limited tunability . |
| 9 | You know they they 're a lot of the older men makes you wonder have they been sacked so they do n't have to pay them hand shakes at the end you know if they wanted to lay some people off . |
| 10 | Plainly , there was no such feature in the building prior to its conversion , but its insertion has been undertaken so carefully and with such sensitivity towards the simple , almost primitive shapes and textures of the original interior that it looks like a perfectly natural element . |
| 11 | I doubt such a venture could have been undertaken so rapidly elsewhere . |
| 12 | It would not be practical to attempt to list all the fund raising activities that have been undertaken so far this year but I would like to pick out some highlights for you . |
| 13 | Five British research studies have been undertaken so far , and their aims and methodologies were distinct and , to some extent , limited , largely due to the fact that three were Master 's dissertations . |
| 14 | The emphasis which has been placed so far on the curriculum is intentional . |
| 15 | Mrs Seale , long departed after her disgrace over losing Dinah years back , had been replaced by a dresser who was less vigilant , and the Chinese puzzle of the dressing-rooms had , in the days of the departed Mrs Asshe , been altered so that admirers could come and go . |
| 16 | But they 've turned this four , five bedroomed detached house , you know , it 's got a ramp now up to the front door , the front door 's been altered so |
| 17 | ‘ I am most upset that you have been treated so badly by my countrymen , ’ Gennaro said in a quiet steady voice . |
| 18 | While pursuing a complaint through the grievance procedure is sometimes worthwhile , you do not forfeit your right to claim constructive dismissal if you have been treated so badly that you decide that raising the matter through the company 's internal procedures will not help you to achieve a fair deal . |
| 19 | Not since Sir Geoffrey de Bellaigue 's Waddesdon furniture catalogue of 1974 has the subject been treated so comprehensively , although it is sad to note that the quality of photography is not as good in this catalogue as in the Waddesdon one . |
| 20 | I 've never been treated so badly in my life . |
| 21 | There was a knock on the door , and when I said " Come in " the middle-aged woman who 'd been treated so rudely by Lennis in the morning appeared hesitantly . |
| 22 | The Survey describes the gneisses in this zone as : gneiss with cataclasite fabric meaning gneiss that has suffered crushing ; mashed gneiss meaning gneiss that has been severely crushed ; and pseudotachylite — close to the actual plane of the thrust , meaning gneiss that has been crushed so severely it is now a black , flinty , very fine grained or glassy rock . |
| 23 | I have never been cheered so loudly ! |
| 24 | He noted that only a small part of the ancient Sicàn capital , covering an area 1.5 x 1 km , had been excavated so far . |
| 25 | The amplifier will then have been adjusted so that zero field corresponds to zero output , the first step in achieving calibration . |
| 26 | While the company has observed for a number of years the thrust of most of the recommendations put forward in the code of best practice , some of our procedures have been adjusted so that the form as well as the spirit of the code is met . |
| 27 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 28 | When they had left the cinema , they found it had been raining so Yanto decided the standing position would be favourite . |
| 29 | The marsh has been drained so the water forms a lake with small islands for birds and wildlife . |
| 30 | A broadside written towards the end of the 1680s defended the Church of England against the charge that their stress on obedience and subjection had been pressed so far as " to set up arbitrary Power , and the Will of the Prince , above Law " . |