Example sentences of "have [be] used so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this book we will be using the ‘ C-word ’ in these senses to refer to the present penal situation in England and Wales , albeit with slight embarrassment and the worry that it has been used so often and for so long that there is a danger that it may be losing its dramatic impact . |
| 2 | Words such as peto contentus sis seem to have been used so widely that they soon raised no doubts or difficulties of interpretation . |
| 3 | This stick had been used so often for beating me that it was now quite smooth . |
| 4 | Despite this , standard-based interpretations have been used so frequently in diachronic description that they have greatly affected the conceptualization of language history that we inherit from older generations of scholars . |
| 5 | Cells from dogs and cattle have been used so far , but pancreases from any slaughterhouse would probably do . |
| 6 | Intact cellular biolayers that have been used so far have lacked the organisational structure for a rapid , coordinated , amplified response that exists in natural intact biosensors such as retinal rods and cones and olfactory receptors . |
| 7 | Well , it seems that none of the arguments that have been used so far would come close to defending the type of system that we 've got . |