Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Poole is hopeful for the future of an art with which he has become so closely involved . |
| 2 | Now the river has become so heavily polluted with toxic industrial wastes that the belugas are among the most contaminated mammals in the world . |
| 3 | Federal law on insider dealing has become so well developed that recourse to common law remedies need only be had in exceptional circumstances . |
| 4 | Indeed , it has become so well used in relational DBMS that it is described in a separate chapter of this text ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 5 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 6 | In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations . |
| 7 | It is not hard to see how Realism has become so firmly established in research programmes supported by official funds and to construct a sociology of knowledge explanation of its dominance . |
| 8 | Turner also feels that radio , especially US radio , has become so tightly formatted that it totally excludes anything new or innovative . |
| 9 | Those killed were members of trade unions in an area which , with a total of 10,000 troops , has become so highly militarized that there is one soldier for every two banana workers . |
| 10 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 11 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 12 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 13 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 14 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 15 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |
| 16 | Heady stuff , and to reject it outright with a condescending intellectual leer would have felt like a return trip down the chute into futility ; but now , with the radio offering a bleaker view of things , I was less certain why I 'd agreed so eagerly to meet him in the library of the Hall this morning . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ? |
| 19 | We gained the impression that — like several other practices in primary education — the strategy of grouping has become an end in itself rather than a device adopted for particular educational purposes ; moreover , as a strategy grouping may have become so deeply ingrained in primary consciousness and practice that to ask questions about its educational purposes may seem , to some , almost impertinent . |
| 20 | Having spent so long staring into the national navel we can raise our heads . |
| 21 | Strangely inferior , somehow , for Churchill to have placed so much trust in . |
| 22 | At times , such as during the long wars with France from 1793 to 1815 , they seem to have done so especially to fill the labour gap created by absent men . |
| 23 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 24 | Polls suggested that Kennedy 's approval rating amongst his Massachusetts constituents had fallen so dramatically following the episode that he might fail to secure re-election in 1994 . |
| 25 | Depression clamped itself round Melissa 's head and shoulders and the meal she had enjoyed so much lay like a stone in her stomach as she drove home . |
| 26 | He had looked so utterly contented then , surveying his growing flock , his flock , not just the flock he had care of , but his own , Abbott 's sheep driven down to market on the Isle of Bute by his men , shepherds in his employ . |
| 27 | It was an uneasy night , pondering the risks of leaving illegally , with a barely seaworthy vessel , from an island of which we had read so fondly in Wallace and had come so far to see . |
| 28 | We had come so far to find this . |
| 29 | Much of what he had seen so far confirmed the assessment of the Imperial survey — that the stage of development Tarvaras had reached was equivalent to that which was thought to have existed during the Terran medieval period . |
| 30 | That devil , born of isolation , he had seen so often destroy young men through exhaustion , frustration and despair . |