Example sentences of "[noun pl] had be so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His change of tactics had been so cunningly disguised that she had n't realised what was happening . |
| 2 | He blamed himself for crediting her with a maturity she did not possess , and regretted that his attempts to assist her studies had been so tragically misinterpreted by her . |
| 3 | I can only assume that , as the matter was extensively discussed earlier , they thought that the issue was dead and that there was no point in discussing it , because the arguments had been so effectively canvassed and dismissed that the Government would not contemplate introducing such an offence . |
| 4 | Car and bodies had been so badly charred that it was some time before they could be identified . |
| 5 | The deputy commander of the first artillery battalion reported that all its cell members had been so busily engaged on operations amongst the civilian population that there had been no meeting for over a month ( they were probably occupied in some of the unsavoury tasks noted earlier by our peasant soldier and his mother ) . |
| 6 | ‘ Some of these men had been so badly damaged , both physically and mentally , by their experiences on the battlefield and in POW camps that their lives were ruined . ’ |
| 7 | Crown lands had been so much reduced in size that the most efficient management could not have increased their yield to the point at which they might have made any significant impact on royal finances . |
| 8 | Their Liberal and Labour opponents , whose foreign policy clothes had been so comprehensively stolen , were reduced to assertions — unconvincing to most voters — that the Government was lying through its teeth . |
| 9 | Some years earlier a train carrying pilgrims had been so seriously held up that its journey had taken twenty-four hours rather than seven or eight . |