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 | ‘ Just why do you want this club so much anyway ? ’ she asked abruptly . |
| 11 | You have to pay so much anyway to have it changed . |
| 12 | But it 's not so much nowadays though . |
| 13 | ‘ I suppose I could learn without you , but I would so much rather learn with you . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ? |
| 16 | In the minority of Mary , this — like so much else — was to change dramatically . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Like so much else in Lebanon , it was physically possible but we never met anyone who had actually achieved this . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |
| 21 | As with so much else , Gramscian ideas about the political centrality of culture seem beyond the scope of the orthodox left in Britain . |
| 22 | Separation gives us so much else , for it turns part of our minds into a sanctuary . |
| 23 | Like so much else the Romans had established , they and the villas were left to decay and collapse . |
| 24 | The episode was reported minimally in the Press , but played down like so much else during wartime . |
| 25 | 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 ) . |
| 26 | In cathedrals , as so much else , Cottle has a highly developed taste for the unusual and the unappreciated . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . ’ |
| 29 | That remains a mystery like so much else . |
| 30 | In religion as in so much else the daily life of the South Saxons was conducted over several centuries by word of mouth and the group memory rather than by letter and record . |