Maybe it is just my brain, but I can't make sense of this. Can you provide more information and/or context?
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Anonymousis it correct to say that "so delayed that the work could have been completed by now had the sanction been obtained in time"The underlined part is a sentence by itself. I can't quite picture how the so ... that ... construction can be made to fit in there at the beginning. So in short, no. As written it is not good, though with a rep