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

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1 would be completed so therefore became one of the market type of thing .
2 We had come so far to find this .
3 Would she have searched so ardently to find that patch of dull revealing blankness ?
4 That devil , born of isolation , he had seen so often destroy young men through exhaustion , frustration and despair .
5 Yet , tragically , the marriage which had promised so much became empty and joyless in later years .
6 Federal law on insider dealing has become so well developed that recourse to common law remedies need only be had in exceptional circumstances .
7 I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible .
8 And she had wanted so badly to stay alive .
9 The view that almost everyone except the Commission subscribed to was summed up a few years later by the UN Economic Commission for Europe when it wrote in a report on damage surveys in many countries : ‘ Research results obtained so far indicate that air pollution is an essential , causal factor in the destabilisation of forests or even in the breakdown of some forest ecosystems . ’
10 The reluctance of the odd electron to engage in bonding appears to be retained in these complexes and the few X-ray structures obtained so far indicate unusual bonding .
11 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 ? ’ .
12 My local art shop had no idea and none of the books I have read so far give any advice .
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