Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier . |
| 2 | McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago . |
| 3 | That is why the support of the government to the voluntary sector has grown so dramatically in recent years . |
| 4 | What then is this second economy which has grown so massively in the shadow of one that the state has planned and controlled for decades ? |
| 5 | Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous . |
| 6 | Pearson , England 's former centre-forward , is impressed with what he has seen so far at Valley Parade . |
| 7 | Apart from D H Lawrence , no one has written so fervently about modern marriage as Vincent in 1881 . |
| 8 | One was that Mr Yeltsin was Russia 's best hope — no plausible alternative leader has argued so unequivocally for a market economy , or seemed willing to trust the young reformers who will be needed to create it . |
| 9 | The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past . |
| 10 | Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them . |
| 11 | The grand symphony of the song has turned so quickly into a raucous and bitter cacophony , drowning all sound of the truth . |
| 12 | And he grows hellebores Christmas Roses to the uninitiated — and has done so professionally since retiring from his job as a mathematics lecturer at Manchester University at the age of 50 , 18 months ago . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's such a shame because the team has done so well on the pitch and manager Barry Fry is trying to do his best . |
| 14 | One of the reasons why Montgomerie has done so well as a professional is that he has stayed basically with the swing which brought him Walker Cup honours in his student days in Texas . |
| 15 | ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week . |
| 16 | He has done so well at scum primarily because Hughes is the ideal partner/workhorse for him . |
| 17 | And it 's Tommy who 's scored , the young Irishman has done so well at the heart of the defence for Shrewsbury , has got into the opposition penalty area and what about this for a score line ? |
| 18 | The Pitman yard , which has done so well in this race — one winner , a second and two thirds since 1983 — believe he will adapt to the unique Aintree fences , and as long as he copes with the first few , they feel he must go close . |
| 19 | It has done so now in response to what it feels is a growing impatience from its members with the continuing reluctance of landowners to permit access to their property . |
| 20 | CA-Unicenter for HP-UX has performed so well at four major beta sites says Islandia , New York-based Computer Associates International Inc , that the company is bringing the systems management product for mission-critical applications forward and it will now be generally available in the first quarter of 1993 . |
| 21 | Lydia asks me to pass her thanks to everyone who has contributed so generously to the campaign and says that while little has changed in the way of living conditions for the prisoners and their families , the campaigners are confident of their victory . |
| 22 | Nothing in the age of contentment has contributed so strongly to income inequality as the reduction of taxes on the rich ; nothing , as has been said , would so contribute to social tranquillity as some screams of anguish from the very affluent . |
| 23 | Emphasis has rested so far on the public role of jade in furthering the harmonious working of Chinese society by cementing relations between the ruler , heaven and the several levels of the bureaucratic hierarchy by which the empire was administered . |
| 24 | This section has concentrated so far on metals , reflecting the interest in metal patinas , but other materials also develop distinctive surfaces over time and some work has been done both by fakers to replicate them and investigators to differentiate the fake from the genuine . |
| 25 | The truth of the matter was expressed by the hon. Member for Aldridge-Brownhills ( Mr. Shepherd ) , who has spoken so well on such questions in recent years and protested each time the Government resorted to fresh guillotine motions . |
| 26 | And she has entrusted the musical Midases who have turned all she has touched so far to gold with the job of making her a new Garland . |
| 27 | The sphere of poetry became more and more peripheral , and it has remained so ever since … . |
| 28 | I suggest that he and his friends in Ealing , North — which he has represented so well for so many years — put together a festival that would be of interest to young people , and also to the important artists whom he mentioned . |
| 29 | It is the only thing that he has followed so far in the debate . |
| 30 | McMaster moved from the seaside to take up a new teaching post in Drumahoe near Londonderry last week , and decided to make the break with the club he has served so well for a decade . |