Example sentences of "[verb] so much [noun sg] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 've never heard so much talk about health as we do nowadays . |
| 2 | Already I think I found it painful to see so much vacuity without leisure , indolence without refinement . |
| 3 | Seeing so much technology in use , the car was ‘ looked over ’ to see if we had a radar detector — we did n't . |
| 4 | I mean , schools the only thing I was , I 'd been governor of a a school for thirty years that was used to depress me with the fact that we could n't get for our schools the things that we needed because to me and to all the people in Harlow who have children are concerned that we are being stopped so much money on education which is the most vital thing in our children 's lives ! |
| 5 | Given that Sir Adrian places so much store by integrity in top management , he views the apparent decline in business morals with some concern . |
| 6 | ‘ I do not like to see fear in a woman 's eyes , especially a woman who places so much value in equality . |
| 7 | If things are as bad as the hon. Gentleman says , will my right hon. Friend ask the business men why the west midlands has managed to attract so much investment in manufacturing from abroad , why foreign countries have chosen to locate in the United Kingdom and whether they believe that those people would stay if they had to experience the burden of heavy taxation , job losses and days lost in strikes that would occur with the return of a Labour Government ? |
| 8 | We will restore last year 's training cuts which caused so much damage to training for young people and the unemployed . |
| 9 | I was a little concerned that you put so much emphasis on return to work . |
| 10 | ADMEN WOULD N'T PUMP SO MUCH MONEY INTO IT IF IT DID N'T WORK |
| 11 | We hear so much talk about cost effectiveness yet every time the management structure changes , resources are wasted on needless things . |
| 12 | No seriously , you get so much shit at work , if you took it all to heart , you know , you 'd just crack up , and the way I deal with stress like , you know , someone 's made my day . |
| 13 | We used to joke that we almost got nose bleeds when we stood up to our normal size because we spent so much time at floor level . ’ |
| 14 | They spent so much time in Zap Zone at Streatham , scampering about in clouds of dry ice , zapping each other with laser guns , so many hours watching Neighbours or running up and down shopping-malls , playing Super Nintendo , they had probably not had time to go anywhere near a mosque or get their heads round the basics of Islamic education . |
| 15 | A machine worked so many hours in the week would produce so much length of yarn or cloth . |
| 16 | It is nice to visit foreign teams but it means losing so much time in midweek to travelling when we could be concentrating on preparation for League games . |
| 17 | He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt . |
| 18 | Madam may feel that having spent so much time in custody for the first offence that he has already suffered sufficient punishment , he 's been kept away from his girlfriend and children , and under those circumstances I would urge you Madam to take a lenient course of action , to make him the subject of a conditional discharge . |
| 19 | Pat was more sympathetic , but also admitted that she had become irritable with Tony now that he was spending so much time at home . |
| 20 | Very few athletes enter sport without the assistance and encouragement of a teacher who might innocently create serious tensions , as with Jackie Jackson , whose PE teacher strengthened her commitment to athletics , a commitment which proved destructive to her educational aims , as she pointed out : ‘ I was spending so much time in athletics that I could n't give enough time to my ‘ A ’ levels . ’ |
| 21 | His basic concerns involve the effects computer-use might have in fostering children 's ability to engage in disembedded thinking ; and the possibility that girls might not gain so much benefit from computer-use in school as boys . |
| 22 | Now do n't take that too literally , certainly in sub zero temperatures and I think the first of December and to do so would I think er have er maybe with some risk of being in 's phrase stark raving bonkers but by that you may think I mean that I think we made a fair attempt to deal with the three principle issues which have caused so much annoyance to user groups , there 's a backlog in modification orders . |
| 23 | None of the pirates were exactly slim , and once more the Mate wished he had n't eaten so much lobster for lunch . |
| 24 | Unprotected in the desert , they would lose so much water by evaporation that they would quickly die of desiccation . |
| 25 | Helen says it 's good to see a girls school putting so much emphasis on science . |
| 26 | He does n't think that women should be allowed so much freedom of movement , although he understands that this is regrettably the custom , to this day , among white women . ’ |
| 27 | It is flattering of the Government to spend so much time on Labour 's proposals . |
| 28 | As a bachelor , Adeane had no concept of the intense pleasure fatherhood had brought the Prince , and no understanding of why he should want to spend so much time at home . |
| 29 | Fifty-five years of unadventurous apprenticeship had led to fourteen years of leadership , buffeting but successful , crowned by a spectacular retirement , followed , ironically , for a man who set so much store by repose , by a sad decade of dismal leisure . |
| 30 | This fear of being intellectually inadequate ( an unnecessary fear where we , the adults , have so much experience of life to share with the children in our care ) is eased by a subconscious desire to help the less able . |