Example sentences of "have [verb] so [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Poole is hopeful for the future of an art with which he has become so closely involved . |
| 2 | Now the river has become so heavily polluted with toxic industrial wastes that the belugas are among the most contaminated mammals in the world . |
| 3 | Federal law on insider dealing has become so well developed that recourse to common law remedies need only be had in exceptional circumstances . |
| 4 | Indeed , it has become so well used in relational DBMS that it is described in a separate chapter of this text ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 5 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 6 | In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations . |
| 7 | It is not hard to see how Realism has become so firmly established in research programmes supported by official funds and to construct a sociology of knowledge explanation of its dominance . |
| 8 | We gained the impression that — like several other practices in primary education — the strategy of grouping has become an end in itself rather than a device adopted for particular educational purposes ; moreover , as a strategy grouping may have become so deeply ingrained in primary consciousness and practice that to ask questions about its educational purposes may seem , to some , almost impertinent . |
| 9 | He seemed to have got so immovably entrenched in the short trouser stage of life that nothing could ever arouse him to a sense of adult realities . |
| 10 | He had looked so utterly contented then , surveying his growing flock , his flock , not just the flock he had care of , but his own , Abbott 's sheep driven down to market on the Isle of Bute by his men , shepherds in his employ . |
| 11 | One would go too far in saying that by Civizade 's time a scholar could achieve greatness solely through office ; but at the least , such a distinction as that made by Karamani Mehmed Pasa had become almost impossible to make , since greatness ' and " office " had grown so closely intertwined as to be inseparable . |
| 12 | The R.S. he had had so proudly stamped on the front was fading now , and the leather strap had almost worn through , so lately I had been carrying the satchel under my arm : Tata would never have considered buying me a new one while the . |
| 13 | And there at Stamford , the beautiful town that Celia Fiennes and Defoe had admired so much remained almost exactly as they had seen it : but fossilised , moribund . |
| 14 | The Physic Garden had become so well stocked with rarities as to rival any other garden in Europe . |
| 15 | After 1720 the form had become so well established that new turnpikes were set up under the clauses of a general public act , rather than by individual private acts . |
| 16 | He wrote Leopold a philosophical letter which has since become famous , in which he said that over the past few years he had come to regard death as the ‘ true goal ’ of man 's existence , and that he had become so closely acquainted with this ‘ best and truest friend ’ that the image of death was no longer terrifying , but rather reassuring and consoling . |
| 17 | Bob Greener died in February 1970 and the club he loved and had served so well printed a moving obituary in the Programme for 21 February 1970 . |
| 18 | She had left so much undone . |
| 19 | As though mirroring her mood , the day which had started so well turned to rain mid-morning . |
| 20 | Britain was bound to become a place of paralysing congestion in some parts , of miserable underdevelopment in others , a place of inefficiency , and because of the refusal to make public investment , a place of considerable danger too , for the travelling public and people working in those industries as we have seen so tragically demonstrated . ’ |
| 21 | Over the aeons they have become so thoroughly integrated into the cooperative unit that became the eukaryotic cell , that it has become almost impossible to detect the fact , if indeed it is a fact , that they were once separate bacteria . |
| 22 | The time may well arrive — indeed , that process is now under way — when the notion of the supremacy of the institutions of the Community and the primacy of Community law have become so firmly established that they are widely acknowledged to be a feature of the United Kingdom 's constitutional landscape . |
| 23 | I agree with all the right hon. and hon. Members who said — I think that almost all who have spoken so far made this point — that it is very important to give Czechoslovakia , Hungary and Poland the prospect of joining the Community at least by the end of the decade , and to give them every possible assistance in meeting the economic and political conditions for membership as soon as possible . |
| 24 | Erm and so far well I 'm certainly willing to confess that I took these away full of good intentions and have have so far carried around this torn up copy of the Greater London Green Party for months . |