Example sentences of "[adv] have [vb pp] so [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She herself would not have peered so openly at personal photographs . |
| 2 | Yet this distinction is a relatively recent one : Isaac Newton , for example , would not have distinguished so clearly between physics and philosophy . |
| 3 | For she could not have risen so far on her own . |
| 4 | A two-way trade is illustrated by ICL 's alliance with Fujitsu , without which ICL could not have developed its current range of mainframe computers and Fujitsu could not have expanded so quickly into European markets . |
| 5 | They were people who had reason to be suspicious , or they would not have paid so highly for Hayman 's services . |
| 6 | As a leader among the Owenites , Doherty may not have looked so far towards the promised land of Owen 's splendid but indistinct new view ; but his perception , though narrower , was clearer . |
| 7 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 8 | Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer . |
| 9 | If Frances had not been so low with a cold , maybe she would n't have reacted so strongly to Andy , her boyfriend . |
| 10 | However having spent so long on Tolkien 's powerful and complex image of evil , it is time to turn to his portrayal of the ( in appearance ) often weaker and much more limited power of good . |
| 11 | The schools themselves could never have flourished so significantly without the presence in the town ( at roughly the same time as Gratian ) of the great father-figure of the Roman law school , Irnerius , and the group of glossators or commentators who gathered under him . |
| 12 | She should never have let go — should never have cried so desperately in his arms . |