Example sentences of "was [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | But even diaries of terror , such as have been published from the records of survivors or victims of totalitarian regimes , were rarely written simply for the author to look back on in years to come — for European Jews there was rarely much hope of any future . |
| 2 | The thing that I found most striking about Harwich was that there was so much sky around . |
| 3 | She remembered a little of the acrimony , of the mounting bitterness within the house , of their winter of discontent , which was so much part of and not part of the winter outside , and the miners ' strike . |
| 4 | The newspapers were put down , the chairs dragged into place but there was so much space on the floor that the three kneeling figures , Moran erect at the table , Rose and Michael bent at the chairs , looked scattered and far apart . |
| 5 | There was so much to do ; there were people out there whom the system was failing ; there was a world that was being poisoned . |
| 6 | There was so much going on all over the mission , more often than not organized by the people themselves . |
| 7 | There was so much to savour , much of it blissfully recalled in an hilarious after-match comedy entitled , I 'm Sorry We 've Left The Tannoy On . |
| 8 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 9 | And when I was fifteen I had to take all this craziness on my shoulders , there was so much imbalance out there , so much excess . |
| 10 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
| 11 | There was so much to be done . |
| 12 | There was so much that he could tell him . ’ |
| 13 | There was so much spoil from this Avar stronghold that Charles used it as gifts , and it was some of of this booty that reached the distant King Offa of Mercia , in central Britain . |
| 14 | Custis endorsed this in a reply , ‘ … he is the most takeing faceitious man I have ever met with and I never was so much delighted with a stranger in all my life ’ . |
| 15 | I was offered a pair of shoes for about one third more than the market price , and I was so much in need of shoes that I fell into temptation . |
| 16 | It would have been so easy to spend a couple of weeks lazing by one of the swimming pools doing absolutely nothing in this idyllic setting , but there was so much going on that I was tempted off my sunlounger . |
| 17 | There was so much bad weather ! ’ |
| 18 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |
| 19 | However , I never really worried too much about the Crag Loughs , because there was so much wonderful sport to be had elsewhere , on both river and loch . |
| 20 | I was so much convinced that I should get Roux 's result in all its features , that even in spite of the whole blastula , I now expected the next morning would reveal to me the half-organization of my subject once more ; the gut , I supposed , might come out quite on one side of it , as a half-tube , and the ring of cells might be a half one also . |
| 21 | When the Council was wound up in 1982 , being replaced by the Secondary Examinations Council and School Curriculum Development Committee , there was so much work to be done on the curriculum and the examination of it in the years of compulsory school that consideration of the sixth-form curriculum lapsed into comparative inertia . |
| 22 | The Mayoral party would receive a formal greeting to Waterside , … which was the proper old ancient Borough centuries before the town up and over was so much as dreamed of . |
| 23 | A breed society had been established in 1910 ; the original 1912 herdbook lapsed after a decade because there was so much crossing with larger breeds , but it was revived in 1982 . |
| 24 | These remaining few have invariably grown much larger than was previously possible when there was so much competition for the available food . |
| 25 | There was so much snow that it seemed impossible that this was not the natural surface of the earth . |
| 26 | There was so much of loveliness in every scene , my mind was surfeited with joys : how the far-spreading bay , with its expanse of white shell-sand , was girded by a sea which placidly reflected the blue of heaven ; and how the seaweeds left their markings in curious lines just where the last outgoing wavelet left them ; the grassy knolls girding the hollow of the bay , and the rock promontories , whose darker tones gave force to the silver lining of the breaking wavelet . |
| 27 | How bleak was so much of the landscape that JTR walked through . |
| 28 | At first it had not mattered that the rain prevented him from going outdoors ; there was so much to talk about between himself and Uncle Walter ; they had not seen each other for twelve years . |
| 29 | As the spring ripened into summer , and the blossoming trees were succeeded by all the garden flowers , there was so much beauty to enjoy . |
| 30 | There was so much laughter , so much excitement , so much love . |