Example sentences of "have be so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Given the current arrangements in primary and secondary care , it is hardly surprising that there has been so little assessment of efficiency to date . |
| 2 | World Bank officials have no pat answers for why there has been so little trickle-down in Thailand . |
| 3 | Part of the reason there has been so little bloodshed is that nobody yet is certain who killed Mr Gandhi or why . |
| 4 | Because there has been so little change in British industrial and fiscal policies in a changing world , the emerging nations are overtaking us , gaining access to our markets at home and abroad . |
| 5 | Tim Mackie has explained to me that the organisation has been so successful gathering together items of rolling stock , track and equipment that there are not enough members available to operate trains and work on the infrastructure at the same time . |
| 6 | However , there has been so much midweek domestic football this season that all but the most committed supporters — 12,178 of them in Glasgow , 3,546 in Perth — turned their backs on Tuesday night 's matches . |
| 7 | There has been so much mourning to do . |
| 8 | It is not perhaps since Romanticism that there has been so much discussion , and underlying uncertainty , about the market of literature , and it is no accident that recent years have seen an expansion of the sociology of literature as an academic discipline , alongside increased research into reading habits , the best-seller and how to write it , and the levels of writing that appeal to different strata of the public . |
| 9 | ‘ There has been so much despair among the lot of us that seeing the party back in government again seemed so remote . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is precisely because there has been approximately equal progress on both sides that there has been so much progress in the level of sophistication of design . |
| 11 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side , while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 12 | There has been so much interest in the industrial side while you just have to go a few miles out of Middlesbrough to get to the coast or the middle of the moors . ’ |
| 13 | Goodbye and good riddance to the propaganda parade Television coverage of the election campaign has been so much oil on shallow water . |
| 14 | There has been so much talk of saturated and unsaturated fats that most people have heard of them . |
| 15 | There has been so much drama , not only over the first two days , when Henri Leconte had made his fairy tale return to Davis Cup play with his stunning defeat of Sampras in the second singles and then his inspirational contribution to France 's doubles success as he and Forget maintained an 8–0 unbeaten record together in the competition , that it was both right and proper that there should have been more to come . |
| 16 | To explore why there has been so much flux in the structures of competition , some basic distinctions are needed . |
| 17 | Ireland has had so much , she thought ; there has been so much magic and so much strength , and now all of it has gone . |
| 18 | George Soloway has been so busy making money that he has been unable ‘ to commit himself to another human being ’ . |
| 19 | I 'd been so good sea sick . |
| 20 | This brain drain' must have been viewed by the authorities as acute , otherwise there would not have been so much coverage of the issue in the media . |
| 21 | To my mum , you know she 's passed , you 're daft , but there 'd have been so much hassle for me to get there ! |
| 22 | There may have been so much conflict indoors that you had to construct your shelter elsewhere . |
| 23 | And there had been so much coverage , a retrial would have been impossible . |
| 24 | Her fine words had been so much whistling in the dark . |
| 25 | My few months of married life with Helen had been so much lotus eating . |
| 26 | There had been so much blood , but … |
| 27 | That night by the river there had been so much blood … |
| 28 | There had been so much power in the electricity of that lightning . |
| 29 | There had been so much misfortune that to endure any more would be as a dumb beast might endure it ; and what would become of Dinah and the child ? |
| 30 | She had been so busy avoiding touching him , she had not even noticed it was there . |