Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 2 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 3 | What then is this second economy which has grown so massively in the shadow of one that the state has planned and controlled for decades ? |
| 4 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 5 | The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past . |
| 6 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's such a shame because the team has done so well on the pitch and manager Barry Fry is trying to do his best . |
| 8 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
| 9 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
| 10 | Emphasis has rested so far on the public role of jade in furthering the harmonious working of Chinese society by cementing relations between the ruler , heaven and the several levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy by which the empire was administered . |
| 11 | It is the only thing that he has followed so far in the debate . |
| 12 | I went for a very short while to the Royal Academy of Arts for a leaving party being given for Mrs William Kerr , who firstly as Griselda Hamilton-Baillie then as Griselda Kerr , has worked so hard on the public relations staff of the Royal Academy , since 1972 . |
| 13 | The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school . |
| 14 | ‘ The morale of the teachers is very low after everyone has tried so hard for the school . |
| 15 | Mike Ford then shot over the bar from thirty yards , and in the thirtieth minute , Graham Hogg was booked for a challenge on Lee Nogan ; Hogg who 'd performed so well at the heart of the Portsmouth defence . |
| 16 | As a leader among the Owenites , Doherty may not have looked so far towards the promised land of Owen 's splendid but indistinct new view ; but his perception , though narrower , was clearer . |
| 17 | Even if we were ultimately victorious at a public inquiry , the church would have suffered so grievously during the Waiting period that a large part of its artistic quality and integrity would have been lost . |
| 18 | What needs to be explained is why Tory Anglicans , who had so strongly defended James 's right to the succession during his brother 's final years , and who have normally been seen as the Crown 's allies in an attempt to establish royal absolutism in the early 1680s , should have turned so quickly against the King . |
| 19 | And having done so beautifully in the buildup how did he get it so wrong with the shot ? |
| 20 | It was unfortunate , perhaps , that Thomson should have written so ardently of the love he felt for Phoebe Kirkwood , his pupil , when he was eighteen years old and Phoebe only twelve . |
| 21 | But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ? |
| 22 | He stood quivering to the gradations of light that sang in the roof , and did not know what it was that moved him so , the hour , or the true beauty of the proportions and spaces about him , or the marvellous and frightening sense of having drawn so close to the spring of his own being . |
| 23 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 24 | Having played so well for the first two rounds and then the first three holes of the third , by which time he was tieing for the lead with Parry at 10 under par , Woosnam came to grief immediately after the Saturday storm . |
| 25 | The schools themselves could never have flourished so significantly without the presence in the town ( at roughly the same time as Gratian ) of the great father-figure of the Roman law school , Irnerius , and the group of glossators or commentators who gathered under him . |
| 26 | When he had finished Morse had the strong feeling that what he had just implied was surely true : there must be some connection between the disturbing events which had developed so rapidly around the Wolvercote Tongue . |
| 27 | She reported that there was a general feeling of satisfaction with the standard of publicity that the Year had received so far from the media . |
| 28 | This involved the creation of an Intendant-General of Finance and a number of Secretaries of State : the cumbersome system of councils on which the Spanish Habsburgs had relied so heavily in the previous century began to fall into disuse , the Council of Castile alone remaining important . |
| 29 | Such signs of relative forgiveness on the part of the leaders he had persecuted so relentlessly in the past , particularly Deng Xiaoping , offer perhaps the clearest insight into Chen 's career : he had never been a political force in his own right but merely a faithful interpreter and executor of Mao 's will . |
| 30 | Erm , I , I , I did n't say the question lightly it 's just that I think it needs watching , and I wondered how it was , because I 've heard so often in the past , that people have so many lines of enquiries , but the money goes , and you know , it 's all marvellous , and I 'm not suggesting |