Example sentences of "it has [been] [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Darby 's conviction , after a six-week trial , was the first of its kind and Mr David Mellor , the Home Office Minister , said last night : ‘ I am glad it has been demonstrated so clearly that luring youngsters into the crime of drug pushing carries with it a severe penalty . |
| 2 | The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired . |
| 3 | He vacillates between describing the connection between creativity and psychosis as ‘ folk-loristic ’ and ‘ clearly exaggerated ’ , and confessing to be puzzled that it has been documented so often . |
| 4 | It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used . |
| 5 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |