Example sentences of "has [verb] so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | David Poole is hopeful for the future of an art with which he has become so closely involved . |
| 2 | Now the river has become so heavily polluted with toxic industrial wastes that the belugas are among the most contaminated mammals in the world . |
| 3 | Federal law on insider dealing has become so well developed that recourse to common law remedies need only be had in exceptional circumstances . |
| 4 | Indeed , it has become so well used in relational DBMS that it is described in a separate chapter of this text ( Chapter 8 ) . |
| 5 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 6 | In many industrialised market economies collective bargaining has become so firmly established that it is sometimes regarded as being virtually synonymous with the prevailing system of industrial relations . |
| 7 | It is not hard to see how Realism has become so firmly established in research programmes supported by official funds and to construct a sociology of knowledge explanation of its dominance . |
| 8 | Turner also feels that radio , especially US radio , has become so tightly formatted that it totally excludes anything new or innovative . |
| 9 | Those killed were members of trade unions in an area which , with a total of 10,000 troops , has become so highly militarized that there is one soldier for every two banana workers . |
| 10 | In Jordan , where the authorities hope the experiment in democracy will become a model for other Arab states , King Hussein has opted so far to draw the fundamentalists into the government . |
| 11 | The growth of the Theatre Collection has been in some way analogous to that of the proverbial snowball , for as its reputation has increased so too has the number of donations and bequests in the form of private collections , both large and small . |
| 12 | Even if progress is slower than expected , and it may not be , nothing that has happened so far gainsays General Colin Powell 's claim after six days of fighting that the allies , unopposed in the air , are systematically dismantling Saddam Hussein 's ability to wage war , and doing so at remarkably small cost to themselves . |
| 13 | Irony in Estella 's true background after Pip has tried so hard to distance himself from the lower classes and she turns out to have come from them . |
| 14 | When the history of that unhappy place is considered it may well be asked , ‘ What kind of a ‘ god ’ is it that has failed so abysmally to make good the promise ? ’ . |
| 15 | Yet , despite numerous rows with the contractors , he has failed so far to tinker with the construction contract to any meaningful degree . |