Example sentences of "[be] that [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | The most pungent criticism of the president may be that so much of his attention is on the Gulf , and so little of it elsewhere . |
| 2 | This is true irrespective of whether the animal is able to communicate with its conspecifics — either by way of warning-cries , mating-calls , and the like , or by means of a syntactically-structured language whose meaning is determined by social conventions rather than by fixed genetic mechanisms , The point is that even much non-communicative behaviour has to be understood in computational terms , such that internal symbolic processes must be attributed to the creature . |
| 3 | The price of over-identifying the struggle against racism with the activities of these extremist groups and group lets is that however much of a problem they may be in a particular area ( and I am not denying the need to combat their organizing ) they are exceptional . |
| 4 | What clearly frustrates him is that so much of the money now sloshing around in professional tennis , is being spent in damaging — or at least potentially damaging ways — rather than for the good of the game , as well as for the good of the individuals who are benefitting . |
| 5 | The reason for this is that so much of the guesswork can be removed , certain weather conditions demand certain tactics . |
| 6 | The point is that so much economic growth in Latin America , from the enclave economy to contemporary multinationals , has been brought about by foreign concerns , which has denied the local entrepreneurial groups their historic role in leading , organising and financing this process . |
| 7 | The beauty of working on location is that so much is experienced , there is the constant interaction with the people and environment , and a constant stream of information filters into the subconscious and builds up an intuitive feeling and empathy for the country , culture and language , which ultimately influenced my drawings . |
| 8 | The danger is that too much reliance can be placed on intellectual exercises with resulting works only comprehensible to those studying the same theories . |
| 9 | Another standard complaint of engineers is that too much government R&D money goes into defence — nearly half , compared with 36% in France , 13% in Italy , 9% in Germany and none in Japan . |
| 10 | What Gandhi may be suggesting by the statement that the road one takes is unimportant provided the goal is achieved is that too much importance can be attached to particular religions , especially when it might result in exclusivist claims being made on behalf of those religions . |
| 11 | One of the things that 's wrong with British shipping is that too much of it is in the hands of ancient mariners , dyed-in-the-wool shipping families that have n't had a new idea since the days of sail . |
| 12 | Do not think that your horse will do better if you add more than the recommendations , the fact is that too much is more harmful than too little . |
| 13 | A second characteristic of the collaboration in these classrooms was that so much of it appeared to arise spontaneously . |
| 14 | 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 . ’ |
| 15 | The other major lesson was that as much information as it is possible to validate should be validated . |
| 16 | An example in the past was that too much butter had been produced . |
| 17 | A second , and deeper , cause of the depression was that too much of the income from the prosperous 20s was going into too few hands . |
| 18 | The main problem , at least on the first night , was that too much of the dialogue was overplayed — Lochhead recognises that you do n't need to soup up the Scots speech to make it funny , or poignant or significant : it 's all already there in the words , but if they 're spoken too self-consciously they end up sounding like rather forced one-liners . |