Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Themes in existence by 1950 were continued in subsequent decades but they have developed so extensively and changed so dramatically that their origins may now appear to be many years away .
2 In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer .
3 Some , such as Alan Walker , have gone so far as to argue that ‘ retirement is largely a twentieth century phenomenon ’ , and that ‘ the increasing dependency of elderly people in Britain has been socially engineered in order to facilitate the removal of older workers from the labour force ’ .
4 Indeed , some people have gone so far as to elevate these restrictions on the initial conditions and the parameters to the status of a principle , the anthropic principle , which can be paraphrased as , ‘ Things are as they are because we are .
5 Some translators of the Bible have gone so far as to postpone the main verb until the divine fiat : And God said , Let there be light .
6 Such speeds would seem to be at variance with the shared space concept ; indeed some have gone so far as to suggest eight km/h as a more appropriate maximum consistent with child safety .
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