Example sentences of "so much [verb] " in BNC.

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1 the big knuckle has so much locked inside
2 It was , in the first place , a world not so much consisting of factories , employers and proletarians as one transformed by the enormous progress of its industrial sector .
3 We 've so much to talk about — and so much to plan . ’
4 All the Cairo world loved a good funeral and the bystanders stopped what they were doing , not so much to let the procession pass but to join in the fun .
5 ‘ Why … why … there is so much to ask , ’ he said instead .
6 Is it so much to ask ? ’
7 It 's not so much to ask , is it ?
8 Is it so much to ask ? ’
9 Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had .
10 ‘ Ah , child , ’ Jake whispered , ‘ there 's so much to regret in what I let happen to him .
11 She wanted so much to remain with him on the terms which had always existed between them , did not want the wealth and consequence of her real life to come between them before it needed to .
12 It could have done so much to persuade this wayward son that he was actually killing himself .
13 Postage and paperwork is a waster of the Association 's valuable resources which the membership does so much to create in the first place .
14 These papers were not so much creating a new market as servicing an established public interest .
15 Peter hesitated in the hall , not so much to eavesdrop as to prepare himself for a noiseless ascent of the stairs .
16 Yeah , you see , now so much got in the worst of us and so much bad in the best of us , , speak ill of the rest of us Ha I 've just finished reading the er , whole text of Rudyard Kipling 's .
17 And , her tone suddenly changing completely , ‘ Would it really hurt you so much to pretend to be me for an hour ? ’ she asked mournfully .
18 In particular , Bede had a direct influence on the Carolingian renaissance of the ninth century through his pupil Egbert , who became Archbishop of York and trained Alcuin , who under Charlemagne founded the Frankish schools that did so much to stimulate learning on the Continent .
19 Luke Rittner , secretary general of the Arts Council , said inflation had outstripped grant aid by 6 per cent , and ‘ a failure by government to recognise this situation will be a cruel slap in the face to an arts world that has done so much to adapt to the market economy of the 1980s ’ .
20 She gives out so much and has so much to teach us . ’
21 Only trouble was I had so much to do ; I never even had a chance to snorkel .
22 There was so much to do ; there were people out there whom the system was failing ; there was a world that was being poisoned .
23 Blown-up extracts from contemporary Paris newspapers , on panels larger than the works of art on display , suggest that the district 's sudden fame was not so much to do with art or philosophy , but the novel phenomenon of la jeunesse .
24 .. there is so much to do .
25 It is very different from our usual trip programme — there is so much to do and see , and we 've been selective in choosing only the very best .
26 Benidorm is such a terrific holiday resort , with so much to do , that it is difficult to know where to start .
27 Qualified conductors work a compulsory nineteen hours a week , but most work up to thirty hours as there is so much to do .
28 ‘ Oh dear , oh dear , I ca n't , we 're supposed to be leaving tomorrow , or the day after , if we can get everything ready , there 's so much to do .
29 Yet at the age of 77 this remarkable part-time breeder was echoing Cecil Rhodes : ‘ So much to do ; so little done ! ’
30 After the meeting there would be so much to do that the time would Pass quickly .
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