Example sentences of "so [det] [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | However , the political problems of abolishing it outright would be huge and so some have advocated phasing it out over a period of time . |
| 7 | With Britain 's long history of civic integration of all but the most marginal social classes ( or at least their male members ) , there was — so some have claimed — less of the cultural marginality affecting significant social groups from which fascism could draw strength ; by extension , there was supposedly more of a commitment to the rules of the ‘ democratic game ’ . |
| 8 | They were tired but unwilling to abandon themselves to sleep , so much had happened , they had come so far , left so much , found so little , were so far from what they had been . |
| 9 | Later she was to think how little she was prepared for the simple events which were to change her life completely — indeed she would have said that so much had happened to her already that any further incidents must be minor , a judgement which could not have been more faulty . |
| 10 | She knew she was being ridiculous , but so much had happened back there in that elegant house , so many unexplained emotions had swung through her mind in such a short space of time , and she felt so wound up , so confused by it all . |
| 11 | Luce tried to think back , but so much had happened . |
| 12 | Since leaving the train at eleven o'clock that morning , so much had changed in her life that Constance felt dazed . |
| 13 | but you wanted so much to have seen it |
| 14 | 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 … |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | So much has taken place in so little time , it is hard for us to really grasp the rapid pace of development . |
| 18 | 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 ? |
| 19 | ‘ I know I am only 20 , but some days I feel about 30 so much has happened to me . ’ |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | So much has happened since then . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ So much has happened , these past six months . ’ |
| 23 | Since I last wrote them , so much has happened . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | She said : ‘ I still ca n't believe so much has happened . |
| 26 | ‘ After all , so much has happened to us both in the last five years , has n't it ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ So much has changed , Yuan . |
| 29 | So much has changed , but for many women writers that cry is eternal . |
| 30 | and these are n't so expensive , but I mean these we know are fifteen so these have got ta be twenty five , twenty six quid |