Example sentences of "[vb -s] become so [adj] [conj] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I think Germany has become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit , ’ said Turkey 's President Turgut Ozal on German television . |
| 2 | We are now faced with a situation , therefore , in which the debate about ‘ the environment ’ has become so wide-ranging that it has impinged upon almost every aspect of contemporary industrial society . |
| 3 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 4 | The law has become so complex that it can not be expected that the solicitor will be proficient in everything , and the trend is towards the large firm with specialised partners . |
| 5 | The truth of that observation can not be determined ; what is beyond question , however , is that violence in our town centres has become so common that it is an expected , almost accepted , feature of urban life . |
| 6 | By the 1870s the machine has become so sophisticated that it needs more educated people to run it , to learn new techniques of maintenance and improvement , and to keep up its momentum . |