Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [pers pn] have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A wag in the crowd quipped that it is so long since they have been in evidence , police enquiries are being hampered because no one can name or describe them . |
| 2 | The thing is , it 's been so long since I 've been that I have n't got a clue how much tickets are likely to be . |
| 3 | It was so long since she had been to a party like this . |
| 4 | ‘ Goat stinks , ’ said Camille , for it was not so long since she had been frequently taken by Connie to children 's zoos where these creatures — mostly nannies and kids — were considered suitably sized and disposed to mingle briefly with the children of men . |
| 5 | Notwithstanding the views that have found favour with others I consider this to be a reasonable construction of the statutory provisions and I am comforted in the fact that , apart from an attempt to tax airline employees , which was taken to the special commissioners who decided in favour of the taxpayer , this has been the practice of the Inland Revenue in applying the relevant words where they have occurred in the Income Tax Acts for so long as they have been in force , until they initiated the present cases . |
| 6 | ‘ Back home in Australia , you can play for my university there , Queensland , for ever , so long as you 've been there at some time . |
| 7 | Andrew Walker was bound to have Veronica 's address and telephone number but a request for them , so soon after she had been asking questions about the woman 's husband , might well arouse his suspicions . |
| 8 | But the niece was very bitter about it — I had to write a letter to her solicitors a year or so later because she 'd been bothering Angela long after the estate was settled . ’ |
| 9 | So far as we have been able to see people need to be able to identify those social situations which are distinct in their culture . |
| 10 | And that does n't help us much because , so far as we have been able to ascertain , the Zikr does n't appear to have bought a bottle of perfume in his life . ’ |
| 11 | So far as she 'd been concerned they had been just friends . |
| 12 | Paschal 's grant of 1103 certainly extended the primacy to Anselm 's successors , but only so far as it had been ‘ enjoyed by Anselm 's predecessors ’ . |
| 13 | By now they were almost halfway down , the drop not so far as it had been , but it was still a long way and Maggie almost crept to the slight shelter of the rocky bank . |
| 14 | ( One may however ask after the nature of men in so far as it has been men rather than women who have created these pictures of the world and of the ‘ place ’ of woman within it such that they should have needed to construct such a misogynist picture . ) |
| 15 | Plenty was built by the Frasque , who did not call it that , or anything else , so far as I have been able to discover . |
| 16 | I have suggested earlier that part of Beccaria 's reputation may have resulted from his glossing over the more unsavoury implications of his views , and the fact that his full programme has never really been put into practice ; but this is not to deny that , in so far as he has been an influence , he has been a relatively benign one . |
| 17 | Ward said : ‘ He is causing a bit of a headache for us , but he 's been able to get away with it so far because he has been unknown , but it will be increasingly difficult for him if he keeps trying . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , so even though she 's been on a self-monitoring programme for several years now I felt that constant professional supervision was necessary , and so did Dr Russell . ’ |
| 19 | And the niece , leaning on his shoulder , wept again for Auntie , whom she had known so well since she had been a very little girl . |