Example sentences of "[vb pp] so much [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , he concluded : ‘ Having to tackle reductions of this magnitude should not be seen so much as a threat to our way of life but as a challenge and an enormous opportunity for the world 's scientists , engineers and industrialists in both the developed and developing countries . ’ |
| 2 | But in the last TWO years , he 's hardly had so much as a bite here . |
| 3 | He knew that it had been a joke , because when it was over his father laughed so much that the laughter was still echoing around them as they started back towards the light . |
| 4 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 5 | Completing this task outside the ERM will be more difficult , but it would be a betrayal of those who have sacrificed so much if the task were to be abandoned . |
| 6 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 7 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |