Example sentences of "[been] so [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have been so successful that the strongest machines available are now about as good as the best mainframes of five years ago . |
| 2 | ‘ The Safe-Buy concept has been so successful that the scheme is now spreading all over the UK , ’ says Judith Chalmers . |
| 3 | CHANNEL 4 's Saturday night series TV Heaven which dishes up gems from the archives has been so successful that the BBC have jumped on the bandwagon . |
| 4 | A dog training scheme to help the deaf has been so successful that the organisers are having to open a second training centre . |
| 5 | It is the one-sidedness of privatisation of the monopoly public utilities that has been so apparent since the process started with British Telecom in 1985 that so deeply offends ordinary people throughout the country . |
| 6 | If the justices had applied the wrong criteria as to what constituted a breach of the peace in the case of the mother-in-law , it is difficult to see how the court could have been so sure that the justices had applied the right criteria to the decision of the policeman . |
| 7 | For a few minutes she stood in shocked silence ; she had been so sure that the rider from the woods had been herself … but now , realizing that the lover she had seen had been Morthen , she felt angry and upset . |
| 8 | Rosa would have envied Mary her powers of passion , the open expression of her grief and her love , if she had not been so certain that the Madonna was entirely on her side . |
| 9 | The apparent ascendancy of nuclear-deterrence thinking over laws-of-war thinking has been so complete that the idea of deterrence has come to be associated in the public mind almost exclusively with extreme offensive threats against the adversary 's society . |
| 10 | But the outcry from conservationists has been so great that the government has decreed that no more wolves will be shot ( New Scientist , 10 March , p 633 ) . |
| 11 | The second comment is that loadings on the 17.18 ex Salop train have been so good that the caterers are experimenting with extending the buffet service from Saturdays only into the week . |
| 12 | We 're a bit understocked anyway — business has n't been so good since the trouble started . ’ |
| 13 | It 's been so cold that the freeze-thaw needed for the Appendix to form fully has n't taken place and the ice is in just the same condition as the previous week . |
| 14 | The cost of maintaining the waterway through the war on reduced Polish trade from the Russian and Austrian partition lands had been so high that the waterway had gone into decline . |
| 15 | But it would n't have been so funny if the robbers were n't as stupid as they were and the film would n't have been so good . |
| 16 | This problem has been so bad that the company has returned to temporarily producing its old-style model to bridge the gap . |
| 17 | It would n't have been so bad if the two girls in the flat upstairs were at home , but they would n't be back until the end of the week . |
| 18 | The Government 's own Department of Development Aid has apparently been so devious that the judge investigating the billions of Rand evidently missing or misappropriated , which should have gone towards assisting the poorer ( black ) communities , has thrown in the towel when faced by the department 's shambolic accounting . |