Example sentences of "[vb -s] be [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed .
2 The reader is reminded that all that has been written so far has been dealing with the First and Second Periods into which the development of the Created God has been divided .
3 This may be one reason why Jalalabad has been defended so desperately .
4 Some of these matters clearly fall within the ‘ good neighbour ’ concept , ’ while others are based on the principle that compensation is not to be paid merely because maximum exploitation has been prevented so long as development of a reasonably remunerative character is allowed .
5 Less has been done so far in urban Italy .
6 Various calculations can be made as to the continued profitability of the project , the likelihood of further funds and the possibility of selling what has been done so far , but in the end it is still an open-ended situation depending on the calculation of risk .
7 That demonstrates the inadequacy of the environmental impact work that has been done so far .
8 HWIM , Hearsay-II , and HARPY , examples of the Symbol Processing paradigm , can construct representations of the processing that has been done so far and operate on the individual hypotheses within that space .
9 The emphasis which has been placed so far on the curriculum is intentional .
10 If what has been hypothesised so far is true , much of the variation in linguistic interactions which is not explicable in terms of grammatical or phonological conditioning can be accounted for by changes of footing , involving a switch from one ( linguistic ) persona to another ; some can be accounted for by the speaker 's failure to identify perfectly the speech patterns of the prototypes of the personas which s/he seeks to animate at a particular time ; and some can be accounted for by the speaker 's imperfect ability to reproduce those speech patterns which s/he has identified .
11 He vacillates between describing the connection between creativity and psychosis as ‘ folk-loristic ’ and ‘ clearly exaggerated ’ , and confessing to be puzzled that it has been documented so often .
12 Just under £6,000 has been raised so far .
13 The last full analysis of reported cases , made in 1980 , shows 41 per cent to be occurring in tropical Africa ( where virtually no attempt at control has been made so far ) , 22 per cent in the Indian subcontinent and 31 per cent in Eastern Asia and Oceania ; only 5 per cent of cases were reported from Europe , the Eastern Mediterranean and Central and South America .
14 Only limited progress in this direction has been made so far .
15 Little mention has been made so far of those elements of material forms which relate to each other in an ordered fashion , and which may thereby influence the manner in which they are utilized in constituting cultural patterns or acting as systems of meaning .
16 I endorse what the right hon. Gentleman said about the progress that has been made so far .
17 No use has been made so far of the dynamical equation .
18 Darby 's conviction , after a six-week trial , was the first of its kind and Mr David Mellor , the Home Office Minister , said last night : ‘ I am glad it has been demonstrated so clearly that luring youngsters into the crime of drug pushing carries with it a severe penalty .
19 The Survey describes the gneisses in this zone as : gneiss with cataclasite fabric meaning gneiss that has suffered crushing ; mashed gneiss meaning gneiss that has been severely crushed ; and pseudotachylite — close to the actual plane of the thrust , meaning gneiss that has been crushed so severely it is now a black , flinty , very fine grained or glassy rock .
20 It is rather strange that so little attention has been given so far to the mechanical properties of biological materials , though perhaps in human terms it is understandable .
21 In 1948 , Francis Rogallo and his wife Gertrude were granted their patent for the flexible kite that has been credited so often as the origin of the ‘ modern ’ species .
22 The exclusion of the courts It has been argued so far that the methods of control and accountability introduced by the 1985 Act leave much to be desired .
23 From what has been argued so far , it is apparent that there are powerful forces at work which tend to denigrate and diminish old people .
24 As will be clear from all that has been said so far , it seems that this short time is barely adequate for the person concerned to have dealt with all the issues involved in adjusting to the death of a loved one .
25 Given what has been said so far it will not appear surprising that the conference sponsors include the Western Isles Islands Council — it is to be held in Stornoway — as well as the SED and OECD .
26 From what has been said so far it is obvious that good interview schedules are important tools for the fieldworker .
27 All that has been said so far applies to hypertext systems , but there are important differences that may affect needs .
28 But what has been said so far , that the flipping and the circumstance including it were required for the wipers ' starting to work , is consistent with the cause existing without that effect .
29 Of course , there is nothing intrinsically quantum mechanical in what has been said so far .
30 Note the importance , in all that has been said so far , of the sender 's correct estimation of the receiver 's state of knowledge .
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