Example sentences of "[art] [noun] had so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Announcing the agreement a US Defence Department spokesman said that the Pentagon had so far committed US$191,000,000 of the US$400,000,000 allocated by Congress to help Russia transport , dismantle and store nuclear and other dangerous weapons . |
| 2 | The commons needed little encouragement to join his opposition to the king 's demands , since further taxation was particularly unwelcome in the wake of recent extortionate taxes and purveyances ; as for the lords , they were concerned over the question of peerage rights which the archbishop had so astutely raised . |
| 3 | The casualty was lying beam-on to the swell , and dead in the water with no engine power , so the helicopter 's attempt to lift the survivors had so far been unsuccessful . |
| 4 | Nell felt almost giddy at the way her outlook on the future had so dramatically altered . |
| 5 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 6 | Although the council had so far managed to hold a balance , its ability to do so once the king was crowned was more doubtful . |
| 7 | Yet several weeks into the scandal , the New Yorker complained that the mess had so far mocked all attempts to baptize it . |
| 8 | Although the Yugoslavs had so far had no indication that they were being taken to anywhere but another camp , probably in Italy , and therefore McCreery would have observed an operation apparently going smoothly , we think it unlikely that Verney , Rose-Price and others who disliked the fact that Yugoslavs were being repatriated under a misapprehension as to their destination would have failed to ensure that the Army Commander was given a true picture . |
| 9 | Only 20 per cent of the US$178,000,000 urgently requested by the UN had so far been received . |
| 10 | He was saying that the gods had so far been unkind , that they might turn kind , but that what the gods did for him was secondary to what they might do for Niki , a remark that turned out to be prophetic . |
| 11 | Whatever Isabella 's private intentions may have been , the deposition of the king had so far formed no part of her publicly declared programme , which amounted to little more than the removal of the Despensers . |
| 12 | There were no houses in sight ; the sea on one side and steeply rising ground on the other had so far discouraged developers . |
| 13 | In his report to the 65th session of the IMO Council meeting on Nov. 5-9 , he said that the organization had so far received only 63 per cent of the contributions due for 1990 — the lowest figure for many years . |
| 14 | The Jordanian Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , Mudar Badran , announced on Feb. 24 that the confrontation in the Gulf had so far cost Jordan some US$8,000 million , or double the value of the country 's domestic economic output . |
| 15 | I loathe the documents that prove that ‘ Guernica ’ was not a generous gift to the nation but was in fact sold by Picasso for FFr150,000 , the largest sum the painter had so far earned , thus permitting the work to be shown at the Centro Reina Sofía . |
| 16 | And yet the matter had so nearly been blessed in a strange and unforeseen way , the Service had almost wriggled off the hook through no credit to itself … |
| 17 | Brunel of course was deeply involved in the completion stage of the massive ‘ Great Eastern ’ — the largest ship the world had so far seen , and could not devote quite as much time to the project as the others . |
| 18 | The logic — that the Treasury could not be expected to control something that was for local councils ' electorates to decide finally sank in , not least because the Treasury had so regularly failed to keep them to their limits . |
| 19 | The analysts had so far carried out a largely theoretical exercise , developing models in a detached and objective way so that broad-based ideas about future strategies could be discussed with the College Principals and officers from the LEA headquarters . |