Example sentences of "so [adj] [vb -s] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | The pity is that so little has changed since then . |
2 | So much has been achieved , and yet in many ways so little has changed . |
3 | I ca n't remember anything in the last fifteen years or so that has excited me in America . |
4 | On the literary side , in the course of the century or so that has passed since the Symbolist movement in France , both poetry and , to a lesser extent , literary prose have been characterized by a degree of linguistic innovation unknown in most earlier periods . |
5 | The cost of keeping the CFA franc pegged so high has become more acute since non-CFA neighbours , Nigeria and Ghana , devalued their own currencies , making their exports more competitive . |
6 | Now it 's not that simple because the moo the earth is spinning round the sun in space so this has got ta be moving round this way . |
7 | They 're offering a gift , you know … the fact that each one is a piece of work , so much has gone into it that it 's something very special , and I understand that it 's very nerve-wracking for them to offer it , to perform it … |
8 | That so much has survived , despite Lanfranc 's hostility , is due first to the tenacity of the surviving monks , and then to the encouragement given to them by Anselm . |
9 | ‘ Mediocrity seeks to endure by every means , ’ he said of these lions , and in a country where so much has disappeared the lions remain , unferocious , glum , like doped circus animals . |
10 | So much has taken place in so little time , it is hard for us to really grasp the rapid pace of development . |
11 | I know that it has only been a couple of weeks but my word , it does seem longer , and so much has happened to you , has n't it ? |
12 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
13 | We have not made any far-reaching contingency plans for after 1997 ; indeed so much has happened in China in the last two years that has shifted the mood from gloom to optimism ; today Hong Kong is a booming economic zone and is regarded as the mediator between the Western and Chinese economies ’ . |
14 | So much has happened since then . ’ |
15 | ‘ So much has happened , these past six months . ’ |
16 | Since I last wrote them , so much has happened . |
17 | Oh my darling , I am too happy and excited to be able to write all the things I want to say to you , so much is crowding in , so much has happened in such a short while and I want to pin down some of this marvellous feeling before it all rushes by and becomes more accepted — because , Betty , I do feel that we accept each other , there is a tolerance , a straightness between us that makes it all possible . |
18 | She said : ‘ I still ca n't believe so much has happened . |
19 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |
20 | So much has changed in the life of the farm worker , especially the nature of his work ; yet so much , as we shall see , has remained resistant to change . |
21 | ‘ So much has changed , Yuan . |
22 | So much has changed , but for many women writers that cry is eternal . |
23 | ‘ Is it really such a terrible tragedy that one person out of so many has failed to fall under your spell ? ’ |
24 | Symons lived a financially precarious life to the full and , in his own phrase , ‘ no one so poor has lived so well . ’ |
25 | Yet despite this decision — always regarded as a classic illustration of the common-law presumption in favour of freedom of assembly — the law has developed to the point where we can say with reasonable assurance that the residue of which Dicey was so proud has narrowed to the point of extinction . |