Example sentences of "[noun pl] had [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But by the nineteenth century knowledge itself had expanded so rapidly , and interest in locating published accounts of very specific knowledge units had developed so greatly , that all previous expedients had to some extent broken down , and the new public libraries proliferating in the UK , the USA , and elsewhere gave an added impetus to invention . |
| 2 | He did not like the fact that his potential assassins had got so close to the Hotel where he was staying . |
| 3 | The Communists had gone so far towards accepting any ally that the Daily Worker expressed hopes that " this may prove to be a new , broad democratic movement , based primarily on the youth of the country " . |
| 4 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 5 | If Harry 's circumstances had changed so vitally , so too had hers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | However , by then things had gone so far , outside Parliament , that some change was necessary . |
| 8 | Alas for the purity of the LEC , however ; by the time of the second edition ( 1974 ) the number of facets had increased so considerably that such unpronounceable symbols as Lmn , Jbb , Dvv , had crept in . |
| 9 | When William Bradford stepped off the Mayflower he described the North American landscape as a ‘ hideous and desolate wilderness , ’ and promptly set about bringing it to heel just his ancestors had done so successfully throughout Europe . |
| 10 | The committee argued that conditions , standards and attitudes had changed so greatly since the early days of minerals planning that a major recasting of the legislative framework was needed . |
| 11 | Hall 's ideas , which he was later to endorse strongly ( Hall , 1982a ; 1982b ) were based on the idea that inner-urban decline in some British cities had gone so far that orthodox approaches to regeneration would not work . |
| 12 | Programmers in the second tournament had all been provided with the results of the first , including Axelrod 's analysis of why Tit for Tat and other nice and forgiving strategies had done so well . |
| 13 | Because Nonconformists had done so well out of the changes brought about in the nineteenth century it is not surprising that increasing numbers assumed the inevitability of liberal progress to be as much part of the natural order as the law of gravity . |
| 14 | Mr Emig questioned whether the urine samples examined were those actually given ; whether certain people present at the doping test had the right to be there and why the transportation of the samples had taken so long — five days , including three days at Cologne airport . |
| 15 | Before he could get to the specimen , its entrails had decomposed so badly that they had to be thrown away , so it was a gutted specimen that he eventually saw . |