Example sentences of "[vb mod] [vb infin] [been] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , time moves on and Maxwell rose from the ashes of this setback , but it is remarkable that the telling verdict of the DTI inquiry should have been so utterly dismissed by the risk-assessors of so many banks . |
| 2 | It was no accident that Nietzsche 's move to Leipzig , implying the decision to specialize in classics , was followed by an overnight conversion to Schopenhauer ; and no accident , again , that his final acceptance of a classical career should have been so closely associated in time with his commitment , after so many years of desultory acquaintance , to Wagner . |
| 3 | It seems extraordinary that , given the political fervour of the Paris-based SI fraction in its post-Lettrist phase , the exhibition should have been so solemnly organised with little regard to Debord 's caveat on auteurism and his contempt for the art market . |
| 4 | It was no doubt a disappointment to her that this , the first serious appraisement of her work , should have been so long delayed . |
| 5 | Just quiet , controlled anger that the children should have been so arbitrarily removed to places where they had nothing loved or familiar , and no one to turn to . |
| 6 | ‘ It must have been so very cold in the night . |
| 7 | It could have been so vastly different for Leeds and Cantona . |
| 8 | It could have been so much worse . ’ |
| 9 | The idea is splendid , but it could have been so much more impressive with a little extra care in the presentation . |
| 10 | He still paid with violent headaches , but it could have been so much worse . |
| 11 | The 1925 — 6 excavation was poor , even by the standards of its day , but it is difficult to understand how the walls or foundations of the main structure could have been so totally overlooked . |
| 12 | Nithard puts them in 839 : Charles 's mother , and the magnates who had worked on the will of his father to promote Charles 's cause , fearing that if Louis were to die before matters were settled , they would risk incurring the hatred of Charles 's brothers to their own ruin , advised that the father should choose one of those sons to be his helper so that , even if the others refused to remain at peace after their father 's death , these two at least would have been so firmly united that they would be able to withstand the hostility of their rivals . |
| 13 | Perhaps , as with the Abyssinian episode , public opinion might have been sufficient to temporarily deflect the leaders of the National government from their chosen course , but it seems unlikely that Chamberlain 's government would have been so easily , or temporarily , blown off the course of appeasement . |
| 14 | Indeed , the suggestion might well have come from him in the first place , which would have been so much better for everyone . |
| 15 | It would have been so much easier if he had remained hostile towards her , but she could sense that that simply would not have been in keeping with his personality . |
| 16 | ‘ Of course ’ he said sitting down again ‘ it would have been so much easier if we had the assassin alive and on trial . |
| 17 | If only Esther had shown her daughter the love she craved , Beth would have returned that love , and things would have been so very different . |
| 18 | ‘ Poor Tom would have been so very unhappy if he 'd known of this situation , ’ she 'd sniffed while fumbling for a handkerchief . |
| 19 | It was just that in the end would have been so far the other side of six weeks as to be out of sight , and she could n't stand any more writs , summonses or legal documents in long brown envelopes . |
| 20 | Neither Boswell nor Johnson would have been so damningly ungracious as to suggest ( as other Scottish cities accused ) , that in the interests of free drink Aberdeen 's city fathers were promiscuous with their honours . |