Example sentences of "[conj] so much [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This polarisation causes the debate to stall , but in a world where unemployment is unlikely to fall fast or far and where so much work needs doing the idea may be worth exploring further . |
| 2 | In their 1958 diet ( which did not yet include so many top feature films or so much news ) , men gave their highest preferences to sport , plays , news , travel , variety , documentaries , westerns and current affairs , and their lowest to serious music , religion and science . |
| 3 | Never before has there been so much concern with health or so much fear about health . |
| 4 | It is unlikely that so much work would have gone into the construction of trackways for just casual hunting visits into the marshes . |
| 5 | Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’ |
| 6 | How canst thou tell people that sin is such a thing , and that so much misery is upon them and before them and be no more affected with it ? |
| 7 | But it is possible that so much competence could be transferred from the member states to the Community that member states would lose their status as sovereign states ’ . |
| 8 | It is particularly pleasing that so much thought and work by the QC team should generate such enthusiasm from all who saw the results . |
| 9 | Frankly , I find ii amazing that so much progress has already been made in support of special needs and integration into normal schools without resources from central government . |
| 10 | that 's why it 's crazy you see it , oh , it does n't make sense that so much emphasis is put on floor area if er less emphasis is put on floor area and more on children |
| 11 | It is bad that so much bias should be shewn , but it is , I suppose , inevitable . |
| 12 | It is partly because of this early extensive experience of stories that so much writing in primary schools is in story form . |
| 13 | It is clearly unfair that so much tax in the Third World falls on the backs of those least able to pay . |
| 14 | It did not matter that so much plant and machinery , and so many factories , were destroyed in the war , because the skills of the people were not destroyed ; they remained , to recreate the industrial strength which we once again admire and respect . |
| 15 | He was joined by Peter Sheppard a few years later when it became apparent that so much information was potentially available from flight recorders that it needed another man to help interpret all the data . |
| 16 | The originality and importance of Freud 's sociology lies in the fact that he never leaves the human body out of account in the way that so much sociology , both before and since his work , seems to aim to do . |
| 17 | The lasting impression of last week 's London International Book Fair , to an antipodean publisher and book marketer who was not emotionally or financially involved in proceedings , was the niggling worry that so much time , money and energy is poured into books that the world does n't need or — if the buzzing basement gathering of remainder specialists is a useful gauge — actually want either . |
| 18 | Perhaps the fact that so much time , money and paper has had to be spent on selling the education reforms , and that so few are beating a path to the doors of Rathgael House , suggests that they ‘ ai n't got much of a mousetrap ’ ! |
| 19 | It was hard to believe that so much tragedy had taken place there which she had preferred to keep to herself . |
| 20 | When everything 's going well for you it 's easy to forget that God 's there with you , because life 's so busy and so much fun . |
| 21 | This principle , that within each diplomatic rank ( ambassador , minister-resident , etc. ) precedence should be decided merely by seniority , was to lead more than half a century later , by the international convention of 1818 , to a final solution of most of the issues on which for generations so many energies had been expended and so much ink spilt . |
| 22 | Surprisingly , these ultra-light pumices sink in water , since there is so little basaltic material and so much air space that all the air spaces are interconnected , and water can fill the whole mass . |
| 23 | I have of late had two letters from him , in which he has shown such an easy and familiar way of expressing his thoughts , such a delight for improvement and so much exactness and dilligence in the making of observations that I look upon him to go onward with a curiosity and genious superior to most of his occupation . |
| 24 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |
| 25 | Why should there be so much adoration of Esther Rantzen and so much favouritism extended towards her , and so much envy of and hostility towards the quite blameless , devastatingly lovely and completely inoffensive Selina Scott ? ’ |
| 26 | Not since the hey-day of Bette Davis has there been an actress who 's attracted so much loathing — and so much admiration . |
| 27 | But nobody else , to the best of our knowledge , gave so much attention and so much space to Rome as Timaeus ; and nobody else was so influential . |
| 28 | A real let down , especially after all I had heard about it , not to mention all that nudge nudge wink wink from the son of the house in East Ham where I had found a room , and so much eyebrow raising and snorting from the father . |
| 29 | There is so much emotion around , and so much expectancy . |
| 30 | Ireland has had so much , she thought ; there has been so much magic and so much strength , and now all of it has gone . |