Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Recovery will come when the country 's creditors decide that the return on money in the bank has fallen so low that the price of assets has become cheap . |
| 2 | They should understand what is meant by Language Universals , and the reasons why the development of Transformational Grammar has given so powerful an impetus to the study of language acquisition . |
| 3 | But pace bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis said in a statement : ‘ We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments . |
| 4 | We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments in the papers . |
| 5 | While there are countless instances of cheerful competence in schools , there are many others where morale has dropped so low that even these two minimum conditions can not be met . |
| 6 | In recent years the evidence for the health benefits of fibre , or ‘ roughage ’ as it used to be called , has grown so strong that it has filtered through from the medical journals and is now well known to the British and American public . |
| 7 | No atheist need be surprised that the twentieth century has seen so massive an increase in greed , social disorder and mass violence . |
| 8 | Britain of course protests that ‘ no country is doing more ’ to reduce sulphur — but then no country in Western Europe creates so much pollution and has done so little ( nothing ) in the past . |
| 9 | One of about twenty eight players will win it , because , I 'm serious now , because the standard has got so high from new players coming through , you 've got a whole lot of new players . |
| 10 | The problem has got so bad in one town that councillors have been told they should pray for rain . |
| 11 | It would seem that your general behaviour and sense of discipline has become so lax and sloppy that you do not even remember serious breaches of conduct . |
| 12 | The occult position , helped by the OTO , has become so acute in the States that police are now thankful to attend seminars on satanism . |
| 13 | This soon led to criticism of the excessive power of the Chancellor : ‘ The Chancellor 's position has become so strong that his opponents and supporters alike complain about his authoritarian style of leadership [ writing about Adenauer ] … |
| 14 | ‘ I think Germany has become so rich that it has completely lost its fighting spirit , ’ said Turkey 's President Turgut Ozal on German television . |
| 15 | Senescence in industrialized human societies has become so apparent because of the removal of most extrinsic causes of death and lowered fertility ; in the circumstances in which the life history evolved , these would have predominated , and few individuals would have lived long enough to show evidence of ageing . |
| 16 | First a man has become so desperate to sell his house that he 's offering cash help with the mortgage . |
| 17 | In contrast to the United States , executive control of the House of Commons via party loyalty has become so thorough that such committees can operate only within a context defined by the executive . |
| 18 | Without this understanding , it will be difficult to predict the range of conditions under which the agents will function , and to write labels for their use of the kind which has become so essential for agrochemicals . |
| 19 | The fervour has become so great that some now argue for a tightening of the Obscene Publications Act . |
| 20 | We have become so clever : it has become so easy . |
| 21 | We are now faced with a situation , therefore , in which the debate about ‘ the environment ’ has become so wide-ranging that it has impinged upon almost every aspect of contemporary industrial society . |
| 22 | To some extent the technology people are to blame for being too optimistic but they realised that if they spelled out the true uncertainty ( even if they knew it ) there would have been no investment at all , In the end the project is abandoned or has become so expensive that it can never be profitable . |
| 23 | The law has become so complex that it can not be expected that the solicitor will be proficient in everything , and the trend is towards the large firm with specialised partners . |
| 24 | By the time the readers reach the final mention , the concept has become so familiar in the discourse model that it is hardly noticed at all as a foregrounded element . |
| 25 | Add to that our unfortunate preference for foreign goods rather than our own ( 25 per cent of what we spend as consumers is on imported products ) and it 's quite easy to see why the UK manufacturing base has become so fragile . |
| 26 | One can find examples of paper that has become so brittle that pages break away from their binding at a touch , and if anyone tries to handle the pages pieces break off . |
| 27 | Hooliganism involving Dutch supporters has become so frequent as to suggest that another blanket ban of a nation 's clubs might be necessary . |
| 28 | This has become so serious a concern that early in 1991 , less than a year before their latest deadline for the launch of CD-I , Philips themselves established their own CD-I publishing operation , perhaps in an effort to energise CD-I disc investment or to make up for the lack of it . |
| 29 | The situation has become so serious . ’ |
| 30 | Contrary to popular belief , recent studies reveal that wood ( especially firewood in the shape of logs rather than small twigs and branches ) has become so scarce that in many villages only the rich can afford to buy it . |