Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] so [adj] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , Dr Tim Synott of the Oxford Forestry Institute suggested that plantations might be suitable on some formerly-forested lands that had become so degraded as to have very little biological value . |
| 2 | By 1907 Polish financial institutions , though cramped by legal restrictions , had become so effective that finance flowing through them allowed almost every Polish farm in Pomerania of 5 hectares or more access to some form of farm machinery on a shared or collective basis . |
| 3 | The X-rays that had proved so offensive and shown up that considerable blob had been taken more than three weeks previously . |
| 4 | But the result left Baldwin in essentially the position that he had found so objectionable when held by Austen Chamberlain in 1922 . |
| 5 | What had seemed so fresh and enticing at first was now stale , predictable . |
| 6 | Susan and Gay were the people she liked best in the world , and when her father died she had made a mental vow that she would do everything in her power to make life happy for this sister of hers who had worked so hard and shown such courage . |
| 7 | All through the valley people would be reflecting on the brevity of life and their own missed chances at happiness , and thinking of their common frailty in the shadow of the dark beast that had passed so close and taken someone so young . |