Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have actually four questions and three subordinate questions which we were addressing and only one of them has been resolved so far and that is whether the Chairman of the Police Authority should be appointed by the Home Secretary or by the Authority and we are I think all have to agree that it should be by the latter . |
| 2 | Most crossed just for the experience of a freedom they had been denied so long . |
| 3 | Infas said 10pc of West Germans and 4pc in the formerly Communist East agreed wholeheartedly with the statement : ‘ It is the Jews ’ own fault that they have been persecuted so often in their history . ’ |
| 4 | They have been found so far only in construction disputes , but there is nothing to prevent their use in other contexts . |
| 5 | As for the Socialists , they have been told so often that they are heading for a total rout that they will actually be relieved if they manage to get the 20 per cent which the last polls were predicting . |