Example sentences of "[noun] has [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations .
2 In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government .
3 It is not hard to see how Realism has become so firmly established in research programmes supported by official funds and to construct a sociology of knowledge explanation of its dominance .
4 Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them .
5 Now the river has become so heavily polluted with toxic industrial wastes that the belugas are among the most contaminated mammals in the world .
6 It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now .
7 The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small .
8 Federal law on insider dealing has become so well developed that recourse to common law remedies need only be had in exceptional circumstances .
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