Example sentences of "[am/are] so much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now that modern gliders are so much heavier and have their wings closer to the ground , it is fairly usual for private owners to park 90° out of wind with the into-wind wing up . |
| 2 | You may say that it is refutable and so it is empirical ; but then — see below — our criteria for cognisance are so much bound up with what the subject can do that it is difficult to see how we could assess the cognisance of a totally passive creature . ) |
| 3 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 4 | Electrons are so much more reliable . |
| 5 | If they are so much our superior in everything else , one would think that their insurance-based systems might be better also . |
| 6 | Here the expectation of effective aid and return will be small since males are so much bigger than non-males and most encounters of males are with other males . |
| 7 | This short length of the female urethra , combined with the closeness of the vagina and anus , explains why women are so much more prone to infections of the bladder than are men . |
| 8 | Sand , however , drains easily as the pores are so much larger . |
| 9 | Basalts can also form large volume flows , in some cases exceeding twenty-four cubic kilometres , but because they are so much thinner , they are not so conspicuous and do n't attract attention . |
| 10 | But nevertheless there are many long-serving CAB advice workers who would deny that client problems today are so much more severe than in the past . |
| 11 | Litters today are so much bigger than they used to be that sows inevitably find it more difficult to avoid harming their offspring . |
| 12 | This is essentially a phenomenon of domestic cats , because the territories of wild cats are so much bigger , and the chances of a whole group of tom-cats coming together in one spot when a wild female is on heat are more remote . |
| 13 | Indeed the first part of the book is by far the more revealing since his recent conquests are so much more celebrated than are the tales of his friendship form an early age with John Emburey , his innings of 87 at the age of 18 for the Ilford 1stXI against Trevor Bailey 's Westcliff and his early days with Essex when he would arrive at 2nd XI matches on a moped , his cricket bag strapped to his back . |
| 14 | I 've seen the transport systems in Barcelona and Paris and they are so much better than ours it 's embarrassing . ’ |
| 15 | I declare you are so much like your papa — whose soul God pardon — that it eases my sorrowing heart ! |
| 16 | That is why social processes are so much more difficult to understand and combat than ideologies . |
| 17 | Indeed , the fact that those lobbies are so much more vociferous than that for old people symbolises the problem which we have to confront : old people themselves are too accepting of the way they are viewed and described by others and others have been slow to take their part . |
| 18 | ‘ You are so much wiser than.your years , my dear , ’ Miss Honey went on , ‘ that it quite staggers me . |
| 19 | But the stakes are so much higher than the mere semantics of the laws relating to lifting at the lineout . |
| 20 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 21 | In the work of Bottomley and Coleman ( 1981 ) criminal statistics are so much a function of highly variable administrative practices that they seem almost incapable of telling us anything about anything . |
| 22 | Strange that this bird sits there and sings While we must only sit and plan Who are so much the higher things — The murder of our fellow man … |
| 23 | Girls are so much easier , if you put them on a blanket at least all they do is wet it . |
| 24 | In certain families of butterflies the fore legs are so much reduced that there are only two pairs of functional legs . |
| 25 | Size is often difficult to judge , but the rounded wings of the buzzard are so much shorter that once the sheer length of an eagle 's wings has been experienced , it is impossible to mistake the two . |
| 26 | One of the great mysteries of our modern free-trading world is why consumer electronics products are so much more expensive in Britain ( and Europe generally ) than they are in the United States . |
| 27 | Furthermore rural unemployment rates are higher on average than those in towns , so that although it is less visible than urban unemployment , because the absolute numbers involved are so much smaller , rural unemployment has a significant effect in dampening down rural wage increases . |
| 28 | Thus ministers no longer feel that the doctrine exposes them to special risks in the House but , by confining all the advice of the departments to ministers , it does ensure that they are so much better informed and briefed than their critics . |
| 29 | He has tried to overcome it because you are so much his inferior and it is my opinion that he finds he ca n't and that vexes his proud heart . |
| 30 | Such imaging centres have always been a part of the American scene , another reason why they are so much more advanced in their presentations technology than we are , but until very recently the only major European one was in Brussels . |