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

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1 Little has changed so radically and so frequently in the United Kingdom constitution during the past two decades as the structure of local government .
2 But there is also a more general competition and conflict among nation states , some aspects of which I discussed in Chapter 5 , that has proved so far impossible to overcome , or even to moderate substantially .
3 But this has happened so quickly and I need time . ’
4 Such speeds would seem to be at variance with the shared space concept ; indeed some have gone so far as to suggest eight km/h as a more appropriate maximum consistent with child safety .
5 In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer .
6 Of all the world 's great wild mammals , few have suffered so dreadfully this century as the black rhino .
7 Nothing very much has happened so far , but I thought I would take the opportunity to write a longish letter , knowing that I would be busy later on .
8 The reason why these had survived so long was because they required the most money spent on them — in the case of valley bottoms , to pay for initial drainage and then to maintain it — to make them yield their full potential of arable and pasture .
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