Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] so [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For had it not been raining so hard on that Tuesday evening I would have arrived at the Philharmonia Hall in good time . |
| 2 | The simple sieves we have been considering so far in this chapter are all examples of single-step selection . |
| 3 | The conclusion could hardly be avoided that the Führer , who only a short while before had been speaking so confidently of imminent victory , had been mistaken . |
| 4 | Things had been moving so slowly in recent months that some Conservative MPs , like Robert Adley , the railway buff who chairs the Tories ' backbench transport committee , were convinced that privatisation was about to be dropped altogether . |
| 5 | The assumptions we have been making so far about intensional relations and their combination and representation seem to deny us the chance of distinguishing two different structures here . |
| 6 | The population has been increasing so fast in most Latin American countries that despite out-migration , the numbers of the peasantry are still on the increase . |
| 7 | ‘ Roman and I have been working so hard on this business fair , he 's promised to take me away with him when it 's over ! ’ |