Example sentences of "[been] so [adv] [conj] " in BNC.

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1 I am delighted to second the motion that has been so ably and amusingly moved by my right hon. Friend the Member for Worcester ( Mr. Walker ) .
2 Factory life in the age of automation has never recently been so closely or sensitively examined .
3 Sadly indeed , the pendulum seems to have swung , as it does swing on the education clock , so far away from the New Primary Approach that even the integrated approach to lower primary teaching , which had been so wisely and effectively urged , is no longer reflected in the current Kenya syllabus .
4 It is right that our procedures should be subject to challenge and change , but her idea of turning a Government Advisory Unit into some kind of Oxford tutorial is an absurd perversion of everything that has been so slowly and painstakingly developed over the years .
5 Diplomatic and military history had never been so subtly and competently written before Polybius , and the brilliance of Posidonius ' social analysis remained unmatched throughout antiquity .
6 It , it has n't been so far because I 'm left right behind a background .
7 It 's been so ever since I 've known her — she was the eldest , and felt herself a mother to the pair of them .
8 It has not been so long since the average chartered or company secretary was something of an eminence grise , rather than being in the front-line .
9 It had been so long since she 'd seen so many people all at once .
10 I mean the first two the first two or three nights after and that 's like the sleeping death because it 's it 'd been so long since I had a complete nights sleep .
11 But it had been so long since she 'd talked , really talked to anyone , that now she felt stiff and awkward .
12 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 .
13 It 's been so long since I spent oh at least three quarters of a lunch break .
14 It would be difficult to find another industry where division of labor has been so ingeniously and microscopically worked out .
15 Never before had the images of the great and respected been so irreverently and so widely circulated .
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