Example sentences of "has [vb pp] so [adv] " in BNC.

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1 The main problem in windsurfing is that it has developed so rapidly in the last ten years that boards only a few years old are very out of date and lack the features mentioned earlier .
2 That 's something which has developed so quickly that it 's almost ahead of us ( as it were ) in terms of planning .
3 From the debate as it has developed so far , various things seem to me to be clear :
4 Actually , Apple has been porting its ToolBox , the source of the Mac interface , the crown jewels it has guarded so long , over to the IBM Corp RS/6000 , Hewlett-Packard Co 9000 and Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines under the code name Cat in the Hat ( UX No 419 ) .
5 Actually , Apple has been converting its ToolBox , the source of the Mac interface , the crown jewels it has guarded so long , for the IBM Corp RS/6000 , Hewlett-Packard Co HP 9000 and Sun Microsystems Inc Sparc machines under a project that it calls Cat in the Hat ( CI No 2,090 ) .
6 The UN special envoy , Mr Benon Sevan , has sought to halt the fighting and install a temporary governing committee , but the Najibullah regime has collapsed so fast that his increasingly frantic efforts never had a chance .
7 McGeechan regrets that the home unions committee has adhered so rigidly to the terms of its acceptance of the invitation 12 months ago .
8 Durham 's arrival in 1992 has come so smoothly that the wonder is that the gap following Glamorgan 's 1921 elevation was so long .
9 ‘ The most a contestant has won so far is a small jar of face cream ’ , said Edna caringly .
10 Because home ownership has grown so fast , and old people now live longer , the main impact of inheritance still lies ahead .
11 That is why the support of the government to the voluntary sector has grown so dramatically in recent years .
12 What then is this second economy which has grown so massively in the shadow of one that the state has planned and controlled for decades ?
13 Interest in golf has grown so rapidly in the last ten years that it has reached out beyond its traditional confines and become glamorous .
14 Much more of what Augusta has seen so far , though , and the Australians will be laying down challenges again to the United States and Europe .
15 Pearson , England 's former centre-forward , is impressed with what he has seen so far at Valley Parade .
16 Apart from D H Lawrence , no one has written so fervently about modern marriage as Vincent in 1881 .
17 The demand for another tv series has exceded the number of books Dexter has written so far , though he is writing another at the moment .
18 Below Tg , however , the viscosity has risen so far that rapid crystallization is not possible and the material remains in the disordered glassy state .
19 One was that Mr Yeltsin was Russia 's best hope — no plausible alternative leader has argued so unequivocally for a market economy , or seemed willing to trust the young reformers who will be needed to create it .
20 Mr. Wilson : We know that the Hon. Gentleman is advising both companies — he informed us of that in Committee and has said so again tonight — but is it correct that he is backing Strathtay for his own area ?
21 As motion twenty seven has said so clearly it 's the members ' money .
22 The plan to construct a political union in Europe on the model of the German Federal Republic betrays just this kind of defective level of political maturity from which Germany has suffered so badly in the past .
23 The trouble today is that the student body has moved so far away from asserting its academic rights that it has become largely passive , simply accepting the fare put before it .
24 Eventually , after two or three weeks , he has moved so close to the females that he virtually touches them .
25 The grand symphony of the song has turned so quickly into a raucous and bitter cacophony , drowning all sound of the truth .
26 ‘ But KITS has expanded so fast we 're permanently short of capital .
27 Airtours is keen to expand , but as Mr Coe points out , it has expanded so far mainly by organic growth and would like to continue it that way .
28 And he grows hellebores Christmas Roses to the uninitiated — and has done so professionally since retiring from his job as a mathematics lecturer at Manchester University at the age of 50 , 18 months ago .
29 The Pitman yard , which has done so well in this race — one winner , a second and two thirds since 1983 — believe he will adapt to the unique Aintree fences , and as long as he copes with the first few , they feel he must go close .
30 ‘ I expect England to revert to the front row that has done so well for so long , which means I must play out of my skin against Moore for the chance to face the guy again next week .
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