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

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1 She herself would not have peered so openly at personal photographs .
2 Yet this distinction is a relatively recent one : Isaac Newton , for example , would not have distinguished so clearly between physics and philosophy .
3 Acheson , as acting Secretary of State , may not have gone so far ; although just before the war began , when it looked as if Moffat was going to meet Ho in Hanoi , Acheson asked him to ‘ keep in mind Ho 's clear record as agent international communism , absence evidence recantation Moscow affiliations … and support Ho receiving [ from ] French Communist Party . ’
4 She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness .
5 Whilst to begin with inevitable , Hodge and his colleagues need not have relied so heavily or for so long on Japanese personnel .
6 He remembered now , though would not have done so otherwise .
7 It grew colder still as the night fell , a crackling frost under a sickle moon , but the coldness did not reach into the Norderns ' flat and it would not have done so even had the central heating broken down , the joy and relief of the family generating enough warmth to melt the polar ice-cap if necessary .
8 LADY DAVERS : Jackey , shut the door , my young lady and I must not have done so soon .
9 For she could not have risen so far on her own .
10 Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony .
11 Without this continuing endorsement Gloucester could not have maintained so wide a hegemony .
12 A two-way trade is illustrated by ICL 's alliance with Fujitsu , without which ICL could not have developed its current range of mainframe computers and Fujitsu could not have expanded so quickly into European markets .
13 They were people who had reason to be suspicious , or they would not have paid so highly for Hayman 's services .
14 As a leader among the Owenites , Doherty may not have looked so far towards the promised land of Owen 's splendid but indistinct new view ; but his perception , though narrower , was clearer .
15 She realised that at some level she had always known this , since otherwise she could not have recovered so quickly .
16 But , surely , we can not have advanced so far from the socialist follies and delusions of the 1960s and 1970s , which all the world now rejects , to embrace them again under the banners of Mr Kinnock and Miss Glenda Jackson , Nupe and the apostles of Political Correctness , Mr Roy Hattersley and the heroes of a hundred town halls from Lambeth to Liverpool ?
17 ‘ We should not have come so far , ’ the thin man said .
18 Boys , young lads , not happy boys or they would not have sat so loosely to life that they could come the way of their murderer .
19 It was the red-haired left-hander 's first win over the squash legend , the first time he had played a match lasting an hour and 50 minutes at this level and won , and the first time he can ever have gambled so audaciously as he did at 13-13 in the final game .
20 America yielded first place despite its exports rising 8.5% in volume terms , compared with a rise of only 1.5% for Germany ; and it would still have done so even if unification , which added $22.5 billion to the exports of the former Federal Republic , had never happened .
21 We may be told that what we understand of an event e , if it is taken as an effect , is that there existed a certain set of conditions — say sc — such that since it existed , e occurred , and e would still have occurred so long as " the usual background " or " the usual environment " obtained .
22 With respect to the short circuit and the house fire , it is true that since a set of conditions obtained , there was the fire , and this would still have occurred so long as , say , there was not a flood at the right moment .
23 May well have done so already .
24 If Frances had not been so low with a cold , maybe she would n't have reacted so strongly to Andy , her boyfriend .
25 You really should n't have ventured so far , ’ she protested .
26 She should n't have moved so quickly .
27 She got a first class degree at the end of it all , so I ca n't have done so badly !
28 ‘ Odd thing , ’ Flavia said , ‘ I should n't have thought so either and now I 'm convinced she does .
29 No I would n't have thought so either .
30 That 's right but but you would n't say that they 're all Derbies Tony would you not really I would n't have thought so anyway .
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