Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a lot of straw in the mattress and it had been filled recently so that it was pleasantly responsive . |
| 2 | Very good , very , very good , no I think as I say the only thing I said to Mr I told him that I 'm very upset because I 've always been treated ever so fair by him I mean they 've really been good to us , you ca n't say they 're not , I mean no other Council I do n't think is as good as Harlow Council , well I say that because I know by my friends who live away they 're not er , they do n't get half the benefits that they get here , I mean we are looked after are n't we ? |
| 3 | The Countryside Commission says its plans have been calculated especially so the path avoids the beautiful National Trust village of Buscot . |
| 4 | It may seem strange that such an important and renowned healing centre should have been given up so easily and so early , and this may reflect the despoliation and depredations by members of the House of Constantine . |
| 5 | A boxer before the war , Charles Nungesser had been smashed up so badly that by the time of Verdun he had to be lifted bodily into the cockpit and could only use one leg on the rudder controls . |
| 6 | It was hardly going to be any great wrench to part with something that had been picked up so casually . |
| 7 | The fringes of the carpet had been teased out so that the individual strands could be seen . |
| 8 | For example , Uranus , which is much more massive than the Earth , seems to have been tipped over so that it lies on its side . |
| 9 | Music played loudly from the dining-room next door , where the carpets had been rolled back so that people could dance . |
| 10 | She argues that , in Britain , most research has been carried out so far by white researchers whose approaches have been eurocentric . |
| 11 | That the initial phase of the project has been carried out so quickly and smoothly is a tribute to the dedication and professionalism of many health care workers throughout Shetland . |
| 12 | And this old chassis had been built up so that this bearing lay on that and it was turned by and electric motor and all that and the boring bar went tool went and bored this bearing out and travelled along on its own its own It was fed off course . |
| 13 | Yet they are using blackmail on miners to vote to close pits earlier than they year that had been decided on so that they can close the pit down and they have cut the redundancy payments for miners . |
| 14 | ‘ Because you 've been pushed around so often . ’ |
| 15 | Significantly , the key decisions in containing these disturbances were afterwards said to have been made not so much by the Shah as by his prime minister , Assadollah Alam , vital figure in the development of Iran in the sixties and seventies . |
| 16 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 17 | The two surviving second division clubs have been drawn together so either Meadowbank or Montrose will make the last four . |
| 18 | The board itself has been soaked beforehand so the wood does not absorb the dampness too quickly ; in fact it feeds it back to the clay , enabling it to stay fresh for longer . |
| 19 | Then they all saw that the royal lance , which had stood upright at the door of the tent , had been flung down so violently that its point had pierced the breast-plate of his piled armour ; and the shaft of the lance was twisted and discoloured , all the armour dinted , and the royal pennant charred as if it had been burned . |
| 20 | This slightly depressing bout of bargaining — which had been brushed over so quickly in the Shah Jehan Nama — took at least a quarter of an hour . |
| 21 | In usual government tradition , expectations had been played down so that any sign of agreement , no matter how small , could be hailed as a triumph . |
| 22 | Christian thinking has been affected not so much by specific doubts as by the general concept of doubting which is entertained today . |
| 23 | Erm but one of the things that we , that we will need to do is actually to review the overtime for the last three months to say okay , what 's it actually been spent on so that we can start to er make sure we 've identified the reasons for it . |
| 24 | We were able to visit two of the eight cooperatives that have been set up so far . |
| 25 | Everything has been set up so that science can get moving , ’ he says . |
| 26 | A credit for interest owed would not normally have been set up so the interest would be debited to the nominal account shown , which will then merely be transferred into the revenue account : |
| 27 | note : The question has been set up so that there is a situation where the current liabilities exceed the current assets in order to allow an explanation of how dangerous this can be in terms of risk . |
| 28 | The laws that can have this effect are marked ( * ) , and have been set out so that only right to left use can bring out this difficulty . |
| 29 | Been brought up so much , bought up a Christian |
| 30 | and it 's the main reason er that it 's been brought about so that we can look after the clients that we have er cos in the past tt erm er how did you come to get the business that you have with us ? |