Example sentences of "has been so [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | It ‘ what we have , we hold ’ was a meaningful slogan in the 1920s , it is even more powerful now when the ‘ what we hold ’ has been so drastically reduced . |
2 | The parallel with England has been so firmly established that when US tourists shunned Europe last year , for fear of being struck by Gulf war shrapnel , they also stopped coming to Bermuda . |
3 | In the next moment after Peter has been so firmly put right by Jesus , he has an experience that he is never to forget . |
4 | Either it refers to behaviour which does not have to be learned or it refers to behaviour which has been so thoroughly learned that it can be done ‘ naturally ’ , ie without conscious thought and application . |
5 | But seriously , why do you suppose there has been so little said about Sunday trading in the book trade ? could it be because we have failed to make a ‘ cold , calculating examination of the long term balance of financial advantage ’ ? |
6 | I suspect that the reason why the right has been so little asserted or used is because of the established right of individuals , who are personally libelled by a false attack upon a local authority , to sue for damages and because those in control of local authorities have sensibly left the issues to be resolved in those proceedings . |
7 | The Mental Health Act Commission pointed out in a discussion paper in 1986 that guardianship ‘ has been so little used that its potential is untried ’ . |
8 | When this cloud settles on the skin it causes a red rash , but it is no more than an irritation and certainly nothing to justify the terrible image of this animal that has been so relentlessly fostered by cheap novels and films . |
9 | Over the last decade the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for |
10 | I understand John McGrath 's sentiments but over the last decade or so the political dynamic of our society has changed so much , the social fabric has been so profoundly ravished that a different form of theatre is called for . ’ |
11 | The story of biblical criticism has been so well documented and so often told that I will not recount it . |
12 | Allowing direct access for clients to the information system , without the support of an adviser , arouses in some advice workers the fear that the CAB could become an impersonal information centre , when the importance of providing a personal , listening service as well as information , has been so clearly recognised . |
13 | As I said earlier , name identification campaigns are routine in the United States but not so common in Europe , although there have been cases where a candidate has been so successfully promoted that he has won , despite his local party 's unpopularity at the time . |
14 | He has been so forcibly returned to his true ethos that when Boult returns , speaking prose , Lysimachus rebukes him in indignant verse ( 118ff . ) . |
15 | And the right whale has been so heavily hunted that its numbers have been reduced to three per cent of original stock . |
16 | This is perhaps symptomatic of the fact that the principle of equal opportunities between the sexes has been so heavily promoted by educationists , in addition to being supported by the DES and politicians , that the law has been viewed as having a very much secondary purpose in this area . |
17 | Its associations with the treatment model , which has been so widely rejected , render it unacceptable . |
18 | Given that this model has been so widely adopted , de Nevers et al. |
19 | What is theoretically and politically interesting and puzzling is not that it has been defended by the powerful and the better-off sections of the community but that it has been so widely accepted by those who suffer as a result of its continuance . |
20 | That is happening simply because the prison service has been so badly mismanaged that the staff are disaffected . |
21 | Prospective Labour MP for the town Alan Milburn said : ‘ Hundreds of people have been forced into dire straits because the town has been so badly hit by the Government inspired economic slump ’ |
22 | If the British people had voted on Thursday for a Labour government , they would have run counter to the swing away from socialist prescriptions across the whole of the rest of Europe ; more , they would have signalled the rejection of everything that has been so painfully achieved since 1979 in making Britain a competitive modern society founded upon the doctrine of personal responsibility and enterprise . |
23 | SECTARIANISM has always been one of the prime causes of conflict in Northern Ireland , because religion has been so closely identified with politics . |
24 | This is the first occasion when one of Palazzo Grassi 's exhibitions has been so closely linked with a Venetian public institution . |
25 | It is also important because , as the coordinator of the exhibition , the Soprintendente Giovanna Nepi Sciré said , ‘ This is the first occasion when one of Palazzo Grassi 's [ owned and administered by Fiat ] exhibitions has been so closely linked to Venetian public institutions . |
26 | All of this suggests that , in responding to the new legislation and in adapting to meet its demands , we must not lose what has been so painstakingly developed . |
27 | Voices have sometimes been heard to question or deny the validity of this requirement but , while it is probably true to say that this issue has not been central in the cases since Thomson v. Deakin , the necessity for unlawful means has been so consistently repeated in subsequent statements of the law that it is now hopeless to argue the contrary . |
28 | His practicality which has been so readily distilled into such words is drawn from a theology which he describes as ‘ a profound mystery ’ ( Eph. 5:32 ) . |
29 | De Niro 's diner has been so eagerly anticipated with some magazines printing details of the menu months in advance that it has nearly overshadowed Tribeca Productions , which has quietly put together an impressive list of future projects . |
30 | One reason why chalcedony has been so highly esteemed is that it lends itself to a variety of decorative treatments . |