Example sentences of "[noun] have [adv] [verb] so [adv] " in BNC.
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1 | Our intimacy has not proceeded so far . |
2 | THE ELECTION has now become so thunderingly dull that I believe the viewing ratings on telly have never been lower . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | If Claudius had not spoken so cleverly to him . |
5 | Majority foreign ownership was not permitted under Argentinian law , and the fact that the Iberia stake had now come so close to the maximum threshold , was seen as imperilling the whole privatization process . |
6 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
7 | But if the Newton Cap Viaduct Protection Group had not fought so well , the elegant crossing might have been torn down years ago . |
8 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |
9 | One such protagonist has recently gone so far as to claim that Aristotle 's Phantasmata — the mental images that are involved in most or all mental activities — are identical with the symbols on which computational procedures are carried out . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | The Plym has never fished so well and enthusiasts report catches of up to eight fish per session with a high percentage of 2 lb plus specimens . |
12 | She 'd had a wondrous time with another man , a time that filled her with remembered textures and sensations , that would have left her smiling now if Parr had not become so damned intrusive . |
13 | Julius drove out of Warwick at a speed that was highly illegal , and Jessamy sat tensely beside him , still not understanding why the day had suddenly gone so dangerously wrong . |
14 | Just what was the object of Barbara 's terror that viewers had only seen so far as a suction cup visible through a circular lens cowl ? |
15 | There are fewer runners now : whether the halfpence have not flowed so freely from the pockets of the tourists , or the youthful population has decreased , I can not tell . |
16 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
17 | It would 've been better but erm I think that these terms have now become so widely known there 's , there 's no way of changing it back . |
18 | Fred and Beth have n't done so badly either . |
19 | There are also hints of the four-generation families which longer life has now made so much more common , when — though still very rarely indeed — a great-grandparent is recalled . |
20 | One ARENA spokesman has even gone so far as to suggest that there are nine to ten women in the party for every man . |
21 | It was then that the Dwarves came to him , fed him , warmed him in their mansions and asked his purpose , for no mortal man had ever travelled so far into the mountains . |
22 | Green had already spent so long on his maps , carefully recording every field and alley-way , that Laurent could see it was going to be a long task , and also that the end result would be large and quite expensive . |
23 | She knew that even if Miss Clinton had n't had so long a start , her daddy would have little hope of catching her up in his old car . |
24 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
25 | Galadriel Hopkins had rarely come so close to begging . |
26 | Some ingenious souls have even gone so far as to suggest that the correct attitude to fat , which makes sense in nutritional , agronomic and culinary terms is to aim in general at eating a low-fat diet , and at one in which most of the fat in the diet is polyunsaturated : but to ensure that the small amount of saturated fat that did creep in is as delectable as possible , which , of course , with slight deference to beef dripping , means butter . |
27 | Meanwhile health campaigns have largely failed so far to change behaviour . |
28 | At present the authorities have not gone so far as this . |
29 | The courts have not gone so far as to give a cause of action in damages for the breach of such a promise , but they have refused to allow the party making it to act inconsistently with it . |
30 | His ring classicism has always argued so persuasively against excessive physical harm , his pride was beyond anything but a regal exit . |