Example sentences of "so [adv] for [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ?
2 So much for a daring display of primitive combat !
3 So much for a passing game — hoof the ball into the other half and see what happens .
4 So much for a progressive education .
5 So much for a blatant attack , but what about the friendly stranger who suddenly comes too close for comfort in the car park outside the local pub ?
6 So much for a romantic myth that has given Hollywood scriptwriters a nice living .
7 So much for the various qualities of books .
8 So much for the general account for how ( as I see it ) meaning is achieved in the natural use of language .
9 So much for the simple carbohydrates .
10 so much for the new man … what about his partner … what made Glenn Hoddle leave Swindon
11 So much for the new cars .
12 So much for the elementary properties of pencils .
13 So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal .
14 So much for the third-party element .
15 So much for the normal life cycle of the virus in nature .
16 So much for the self-inflicted handicaps .
17 So much for the radical conscience .
18 So much for the diplomatic niceties .
19 So much for the perfect end to a perfect night , she thought resignedly as she walked up the path .
20 So much for the melodic line .
21 And thank you so much for the beautiful card , the towel and bookmarks .
22 So much for the paperless office : Microsoft Corp claims that , stacked up , the manuals for the 100m copies of MD-DOS it has sold would reach to the moon and back — 10 times .
23 So much for the younger generation and their attitude to the new technology .
24 So much for the bright side , against which is failure yet to isolate the endothelin-converting enzyme which cleaves the inactive big endothelines ( 38–41 amino acids ) in their active forms ( 21 amino acids ) .
25 So much for the bad news .
26 So much for the permissive society . )
27 So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water .
28 So much for the big money .
29 So much for the basic laws .
30 So much for the basic qualifications of recruits into AIB .
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