Example sentences of "have so [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.

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1 This deficit model which has so patently missed the needs of children with special educational needs is being supplanted , at an increasing pace , through a whole-school approach .
2 No one has so far questioned the judgement that ‘ Montini 's letter is the single most important document for understanding not only the first session but the whole Vatican Council ’ .
3 Chinese pressure on the conference organisers has so far prevented the Tibetan spiritual leader from attending .
4 Although the Peace Tax Campaign has so far eschewed the use of extra-constitutional forms of dissent , confining itself for the most part to orthodox expressions of protest such as parliamentary lobbying and legal action in the courts , the failure of conventional forms of political protest to influence the prevailing defence strategy/taxation policy could have important implications regarding the future choice of tactics to be used .
5 His work remains largely in the hands of private collectors , and has so far escaped the reassessment and appreciation give to fellow Cubists Picasso , Braque and Leger in recent years .
6 Ukraine has so far escaped the bitter division between presidency and parliament seen in Russia , partly because Mr Kravchuk is by no means the reformer that Boris Yeltsin likes to appear .
7 The lack of scalable database technology has so far kept the SMP vendors to a ceiling of around 20 processors for commercial users before performance benefits tail off .
8 Unlike HP , which has so far made the biggest splash enticing the mainframe software vendors to port their applications to its platforms , Sun is less likely to pay up-front for the porting work , preferring to spend the money on joint marketing .
9 The Egyptian foreign minister , Amr Moussa , made it clear he expected Israel to offer more than it has so far to return the deportees to their homes in the occupied territories .
10 Does n't he care that nuclear energy has so far saved the world from burning five hundred million tons of coal ?
11 The stock market has so far given the RJB shares the thumbs down .
12 The Syrian Information Minister , Mr Mohammed Salman , said : ‘ The only reason Syria has so far discounted the military option to end Gen Aoun 's rebellion is its desire to avert huge losses among civilians in the eastern sector of Beirut .
13 It is the first kind of approach that has so far yielded the most insight , but it is worth considering the possibility of the analysis of interaction by synthesis .
14 The three found they could speed up the development of the 601 chip by combining work already under way at IBM with Motorola chip technology , and early next year , IBM , Apple and Motorola will announce the PowerOpen Association to rally support for the chip , which has so far won the backing only of Compagnie des Machines Bull SA and Thomson-CSF SA .
15 THIS magazine has so far avoided the temptation to stick compact discs , screwdrivers , knitting patterns or any other free gift on its front cover .
16 The Inquisitors concluded : ‘ Blessed be the Most High who has so far preserved the Male sex from so great a crime2 . ’
17 The old fulminations against political alliances will be heard , and the old predictions of financial disaster will be trotted out ; the old yarns about schemes of interested but impecunious politicians who desire to insert their capacious hands into our money chests will be ventilated ; we shall , in fact , be inundated by all the old bosh which has so long confused the issues and blocked the way to advance in the direction of cooperative representation .
18 And accordingly they treat it , as if , in the present age , this were an agreed point , among all people of discernment ; and nothing remained , but to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule , as it were by way of reprisals , for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world .
19 ‘ It is almost inconceivable that having so rightly stressed the tourist potential of Caernarfon that the Trust should then fail to seize the opportunity to capitalise on that potential .
20 Quite plainly , having so recently finished the work that had absorbed him for almost two years , he was not yet back in the habit of eating lunch at a regular hour .
21 Between waking and full consciousness I see clearly that I should never have so casually left the inn once I had got there , taking it for granted I could get back quite simply .
22 Kirkbymoorside deserves sympathy for having lost its status as the only town in the country to have so far escaped the painter 's handiwork .
23 Of the 29 other people who 've so far attended the course , only one has broken that oath .
24 For I too have the same taint of ‘ foolishness ’ upon me as my great-uncle Fred , though I 've so far escaped the anguish of his illness .
25 Nevertheless by 1980 Apple was a $300 million company and personal computers had so successfully invaded the office that in 1981 IBM — which had originally scorned the little machine — introduced its first model called simply the IBM PC .
26 Michael Banks , who by this time looked terminally tired , seemed to have lost the knack of timing which he had so laboriously achieved the day before , and so his lines were once again all over the place .
27 Now he strode out not apprehensive that he might have lost contact with that gift of powerful calm which had so effectively stilled the thresh of his emotions , but confident that as soon as he reached the Point and stood as and where he had first stopped — the experience would be renewed and reinforced , the key would fit the lock .
28 It was a delicate moment for Franco , who had so closely linked the legitimacy of his power to his presentation of himself as the defender of the Catholic faith .
29 He was to go to Brighton for a fortnight in another play , in 1950 , A Phoenix Too Frequent by Christopher Fry , whose well-wrought and ‘ difficult ’ verse dramas had so unexpectedly caught the taste of the public .
30 Elinor attempted a smile as she quoted what Buzz had so often told the girls in years past .
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