Example sentences of "been [vb pp] so [conj] [art] " in BNC.

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1 While the company has observed for a number of years the thrust of most of the recommendations put forward in the code of best practice , some of our procedures have been adjusted so that the form as well as the spirit of the code is met .
2 It is from that sheet that the figures were transcribed on to the erm on to the pink and the , the , the , the , erm blue and the yellow sheets which have been circulated and which have been amended so that the figures now correspond on both sheets .
3 These figures had now been revised so that a truer comparison of the housing stock 's condition could be made .
4 RDBISETUP.COM has been edited so that the two logicals RDBICONFIGURATION and LIFESPANCONFIGURATION point to the RDBI configuration file and LIFESPAN configuration files respectively within your system .
5 The neck is maple and has been designed so that the infamous timber saving scarf joint under the third fret can be avoided in favour of an equally conservationally sound one-piece affair .
6 As it happens , the bass part has been designed so that the result is relatively consonant and relaxed , but it would have been equally easy ( as we have shown above ) to make it contribute more dissonance and tension :
7 The scribe of S 961 , extant on its original single sheet of parchment , was equally concerned about the aesthetics of his product , and as an archbishop and four bishops are balanced by five abbots , and three earls by three priests , the list seems to have been curtailed so that the different orders match .
8 And last but not least on these issues of planning which I think is very important , I 'm glad to get the opportunity to put this thing over to people ; I very much regret the way that planning laws have been weakened so that the local authorities do n't have the power they used to have .
9 The obvious thing was to jot down quickly what had been said so that the speechreader would be ‘ on beam ’ and laugh too .
10 The present research has been proposed so that a more detailed and extensive study of young visually impaired children 's spatial and map abilities can be carried out .
11 Anne Dickie , Manager Royline Sales , said regional awards had been introduced so that the efforts and results of branches could be better highlighted and rewarded — and she praised the first three winners .
12 We 've managed to run our economy so that the pound has always been teetering before it fell ; the successful economies have been run so that the currency had to be suppressed . ’
13 Since then the issued share capital has been increased so that the absolute limit represents just under 3.6% of the current issued share capital .
14 All prize money has been increased so that the runner-up receives £175 , losing semi-finalists £85 and losing quarterfinalists £40 .
15 In the second painting , every irregularity in her figure had been emphasised so that the girl stretching outwards from a balcony to pick a ripe , hanging fruit appeared as misshapen as a fairy-tale goblin .
16 Recognising that the employment market , and the preferences of students and of their parents fluctuate , and that full-time learning facilities should also be available to the part-time student , a course of study has been structured so that the student can opt for full-time , sandwich or part-time attendance , as employment or personal circumstances dictate .
17 The image has been processed so that the colours represent gradations in vegetation density , ranging from blue ( no green vegetation ) through cyan , green and yellow to red ( maximum vegetation cover ) .
18 This principle has been extended so that a person who books a holiday on behalf of others , e.g. a husband booking on behalf of himself his wife and children , may obtain damages not only for his own disappointment etc. but also for the disappointment sustained by his wife and children .
19 His main concern now is the protection of the valuable fish some worth more than £1,500 each so special ‘ unhooking mats ’ have been ordered so that the fish do not get damaged by mishandling .
20 The value of this constant has been chosen so that the lists of collocations so produced are comparable in size with the definitions taken from machine-readable dictionaries .
21 In November of 1968 , he responded to the demands of Derry Catholics by proposing that the Londonderry City Corporation ( which since partition had been gerrymandered so that the Protestant minority retained control ) be replaced by a nominated body , that housing allocation be removed from political control to be administered on a fair ‘ points for needs ’ system , and that the Special Powers Act be re-examined .
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