Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] [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 The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape .
3 Indeed , the biographers ' determination to establish the identity of the woman Pushkin claimed to love so hopelessly has resulted in the destruction of its legendary status , and consequently of its constructive role in the reading of the poetry .
4 When at last he came down to Egypt , Joseph showed him all the love and respect that were a father 's due , all the love and respect that Ham had failed so conspicuously to show to Noah .
5 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 .
6 Now the river has become so heavily polluted with toxic industrial wastes that the belugas are among the most contaminated mammals in the world .
7 She was not a garish poster girl or the kind of woman you see on magazine covers , shellacked into bookstall anonymity , but she was much closer to that real yet elusive image those boringly and indeed obscenely ubiquitous categories of commerce keep striving so unsuccessfully to represent .
8 After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts .
9 The Physic Garden had become so well stocked with rarities as to rival any other garden in Europe .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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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