Example sentences of "so much [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My main concern is , that I think that over the years , as people have lived longer and as they became retired , we 've tended to neglect them , not so much financially and in terms of their conditions , though I think there 's always arguments about that ; I think we 've actually neglected their role in the community . |
| 2 | The author , Giancarlo Ferraris , of course earns our gratitude for his achievement in amassing so much largely fresh documentation on the famous cabinet maker Pietro Piffetti and on a flush of other Turinese baroque and rococo furniture-makers . |
| 3 | What these works do , or tend to do , not so much singly , perhaps , as in series , is to set in train through the sheer repetition of their demeaning view of women , for example , or their glamorisation of crime , what is known in behaviouristic terms as a process of conditioning , the ‘ drip-drip ’ effect of popular parlance . |
| 4 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 5 | You do n't know so much yet , or you 'd know that wise people do n't mock what they do n't understand ! ’ |
| 6 | Even Miss Hervey had remarked on it when she did the test weigh ; seven days old , and taking so much already . |
| 7 | In many cases , it may be a matter of giving ground , out of kindness and consideration for the older person , who has been stripped of so much already . |
| 8 | ‘ I do n't know if I have the strength to hear it now , ’ she murmured , ‘ having heard so much already . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Mr Swinton has so much already , ’ Alexandra said , her voice almost steady , ‘ that he asked if you might have the basket for bringing me out here on Christmas night . ’ |
| 10 | There was just so much around . |
| 11 | ‘ Just why do you want this club so much anyway ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 12 | You have to pay so much anyway to have it changed . |
| 13 | But it 's not so much nowadays though . |
| 14 | ‘ I suppose I could learn without you , but I would so much rather learn with you . ’ |
| 15 | Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily . |
| 16 | Like so much else in music , this is a process that involves the passage of a lot of Lime : learning a work on the page and then on the orchestra ? |
| 17 | In the minority of Mary , this — like so much else — was to change dramatically . |
| 18 | All the same , the gap year is a crazy British system , which sets you free to travel when you have so much else to learn , and then leaves you pinned to your desk for ever after . |
| 19 | Like so much else in Lebanon , it was physically possible but we never met anyone who had actually achieved this . |
| 20 | He would have to show all this new treasure-trove to Blackadder , who would be both elated and grumpy , who would anyway be pleased that it was locked away in Safe 5 and not spirited away to Robert Dale Owen University in Harmony City , with so much else . |
| 21 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |
| 22 | As with so much else , Gramscian ideas about the political centrality of culture seem beyond the scope of the orthodox left in Britain . |
| 23 | Separation gives us so much else , for it turns part of our minds into a sanctuary . |
| 24 | Like so much else the Romans had established , they and the villas were left to decay and collapse . |
| 25 | The episode was reported minimally in the Press , but played down like so much else during wartime . |
| 26 | The styles of learning in Koranic schools and catechist classes have predictable effects on the way children learn in school , but the missionary tradition in education is responsible for so much else besides , ( over a long period of the history of formal education the great majority of schools were missionary schools ) . |
| 27 | In cathedrals , as so much else , Cottle has a highly developed taste for the unusual and the unappreciated . |
| 28 | Next time my instinct for a holiday , as it does in so much else , cries for something hot and cheap , I shall stay my hand . |
| 29 | My sisters sent me a melon , but there was so much else , that in the end it had to be given to people in the wards . ’ |
| 30 | That remains a mystery like so much else . |