Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is doubtful whether any other golf course , with the exception of St Andrews , has been written about so much , photographed so lavishly and expanded upon so frequently . |
| 2 | The fact that it has been written about so perfectly inhibits my response to the place : I have no feelings about Tipasa , only to what Camus has written about it . |
| 3 | It can not even decide its own procedures ( and has been prevented from so doing by the Conseil Constitutionel ) . |
| 4 | But it has been done before so why not again ? |
| 5 | People will not give up lightly what they have gained under this Government , and they will not easily embrace a creed that has been rejected by so many nations in recent years . |
| 6 | Initially , I want to consider environmental impact assessments from a slightly different perspective from that which has been referred to so far . |
| 7 | The wheels are of the best construction , having wooden felloes six inches deep , with strong iron centre pieces , and the inconvenience arising from sudden concussion has been guarded against so far as possible by the finest description of buffer springs . |
| 8 | The importance of readability has been upheld for so long that all manner of methods have been devised for its measurement . |
| 9 | In many cases , it may be a matter of giving ground , out of kindness and consideration for the older person , who has been stripped of so much already . |
| 10 | Because if you do , you can not fail to be deeply impressed by the very many ways in which high-fibre foods can help you to slim , and to come to the conclusion that the F-Plan is that major slimming breakthrough everyone has been seeking for so long . |
| 11 | It is argued that the traditional bureaucratic mechanistic structure that has been operating for so long can no longer cope with the dynamic environment that we now live in . |
| 12 | It does n't seem fair that my relatively small problem has been dealt with so efficiently , whereas you and others I know have to struggle on with far greater difficulties . |
| 13 | These names are either prescribed by law ( wholemeal bread ) or clearly descriptive ( beef stew and dumpling ) or , in the case of fish fingers , the name has been used for so long that everyone knows what they are . |
| 14 | During his search for parts he has built up a colossal spares stock , but as the type has been used by so many air forces around the world and is still in service in places , components are not difficult to obtain — although they can be pricey . |
| 15 | Only £21.6 billion of the total has been accounted for so far , leaving 42 per cent outstanding with just two months of the financial year to go . |
| 16 | However , this substance has been found in so many different tissues of such a wide variety of animals , that there is now some doubt about its role and the quest for a natural magnetic detector is continuing . |
| 17 | Because devaluation has been postponed for so long , the shock to living standards would rattle many civil servants ( though export-oriented farmers would be better off ) . |
| 18 | They 'd been gone for so long now . |
| 19 | The moment I 'd been waiting for so long had arrived . |
| 20 | Never could they have been visited by so many young girls . |
| 21 | The first is that the act of self-poisoning may have been rewarding in so far as any subsequent positive changes could be seen as resulting from the act itself . |
| 22 | How could his enthusiasm not have been aroused by so inspiring a personality ? |
| 23 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 24 | How was it that secondary education for all , the organising impulse behind the 1944 Act , should have been interpreted in so restricted a way ? |
| 25 | Yet , as they finally declare their love for each other — having been tricked into so doing — Beatrice asks one favour : It seems to me that the fact that this request comes in prose is a sign that it is not to be taken seriously , since it , too , like so much else in the play , is based on false appearances . |
| 26 | I was astonished by the power with which my German crashed out of me , as if in millennial anger at having been silenced for so long . |
| 27 | And she cried out as a cascade of fireworks seemed to explode deep within her , before their bodies , now moving in perfect unison , recaptured the fierce , tumultuous pleasure they had always shared in the past — the total consummation which she had been denied for so long . |
| 28 | Although SDPJ leader Takako Doi had wanted to field more candidates she had been prevented from so doing by pressure from sitting socialist members of the Diet . |
| 29 | There are two provisos as follows : ( 1 ) execution will not issue against either property or persons without leave of the court where the proceedings have been brought against the firm by one of its members or by another firm having partners in common with the firm against which or against the partners of which execution is sought ; ( 2 ) execution will not issue against a partner if he is out of the jurisdiction at the date when the proceedings were commenced unless he has acknowledged service or was duly served within the jurisdiction as a partner or outside the jurisdiction after leave had been obtained to so serve him . |
| 30 | as if whatever he had done had cut him off from the mercy he had been seeking for so long . |