Example sentences of "so [det] [verb] [been] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ state of the art ’ of soil conservation is clearly in a sorry mess : ‘ The need for soil conservation was emphasised by Bennett ( 1955 ) , Jacks and Whyte ( 1939 ) and many others … but so little has been achieved that most recent reports … are virtually undistinguishable in factual content and sentiment from the earlier studies . ’ |
| 2 | So little has been heard from Steve Chen 's Supercomputer Systems Inc in the past couple of years that people have been wondering if the company still existed . |
| 3 | I am dismayed that so little has been done to decentralise , when so many other EC countries have clearly felt the benefits , both economic and political , of taking the decentralised route . |
| 4 | It is ludicrous that so little has been put into it hitherto . |
| 5 | So that 's been changed out of that . |
| 6 | But to have gone himself to Verdun at this hour would have demolished at a stroke the legend of imperturbability , upon which so much had been built , and the crash would have been deafening . |
| 7 | It had already been stripped of the lighting side of its business , the more profitable side , and now the tramway undertaking was to be absorbed into the unified transport system , of which so much had been heard . |
| 8 | Since so much had been done peacefully through economic change , population increases , emigration and Parliamentary legislation , it is not surprising that ministers , like others , naturally assumed that progress through the same channels would continue ad infinitum . |
| 9 | Ruth 's thoughts flinched from what it must feel like to be Fand — she seemed hardly to exist , so much had been taken from her . |
| 10 | So much has been written about Monteverdi 's L'Orfeo that it may be difficult to believe that many of the puzzles can be answered through a study of Renaissance humanistic traditions . |
| 11 | So much has been written in recent years about Ralph Sarich 's Orbital two-stroke engine that our award for technical innovation might appear somewhat tardy . |
| 12 | So much has been written about this band , their every move painstakingly analysed , that it 's hard to add any startling insight , any new interpretation to the minutiae of Shaun 's behaviour . |
| 13 | So much has been written and read about race that the question ‘ what do people think about race ? ’ seems slightly jaded . |
| 14 | I 've omitted rapists from this chapter because so much has been written specifically about them elsewhere ( see page 121 ) . |
| 15 | Over the years so much has been written about pilots flying in the ‘ operational ’ phase , sometimes forgetting that all these pilots had to be trained . |
| 16 | So much has been written concerning this question in recent years that it would waste space to reiterate arguments as to the moral , sociological , psychological and medical aspects of the problem . |
| 17 | Yet so much has been written about the wonders of the Roman road system that probably not enough allowance is made for their often poor condition . |
| 18 | So much has been written about this single epic without any clear view of the potential impact emerging . |
| 19 | In the past , most of the pottery workers have been individuals working virtually unaided , and it says much for the hard work and devotion of people like John Gillam , that so much has been achieved . |
| 20 | So much has been achieved , and yet in many ways so little has changed . |
| 21 | Because so much has been put into making such fine volumes , they have tended to increase in value year by year . |
| 22 | Not so much has been known about them , which alone justifies the book . |
| 23 | So these have been made for us by Theakstons , they 're made of new oak with er instead of metal metal was used . |
| 24 | It is sad that so many have been lost or allowed to deteriorate , but it is hoped that those survivors which remain will be cherished and preserved as reminders of other days . |
| 25 | So many have been released in the wild that they 're threatening native species . |
| 26 | Slide-rules are free , because so many have been discarded as scientists and technicians switch to calculators . |