Example sentences of "[vb pp] so [adv] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 You have done so well to get to this point , it is vital that you stay on the rails until the first weighing and measuring day .
2 Manville remembered now , what it had all been about , why he had needed so desperately to return to this , at least once before he died .
3 He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling .
4 Now the river has become so heavily polluted with toxic industrial wastes that the belugas are among the most contaminated mammals in the world .
5 Indeed , it has become so well used in relational DBMS that it is described in a separate chapter of this text ( Chapter 8 ) .
6 We gained the impression that — like several other practices in primary education — the strategy of grouping has become an end in itself rather than a device adopted for particular educational purposes ; moreover , as a strategy grouping may have become so deeply ingrained in primary consciousness and practice that to ask questions about its educational purposes may seem , to some , almost impertinent .
7 What I have described so far relates in general to the lives of women in the peasant communities in many parts of the Indian sub-continent , but the details I have given mainly concern women in East and West Punjab .
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