Example sentences of "[not/n't] [vb infin] so much " in BNC.
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| 1 | It does not arise so much when the doubt lies between ( a ) consent and ( b ) no decision . |
| 2 | If you know that a dessert is likely to be particularly rich but it is something you relish , then do not eat so much of the main course ; you will then be hungry enough to enjoy the dessert without feeling sick or bloated . |
| 3 | You may not want to get up and run a race immediately after eating but you should not eat so much that you find it difficult to climb a flight of stairs . |
| 4 | You should not eat so much . |
| 5 | You should not eat so much . |
| 6 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 7 | And you yourself made it clear to me that you would not stomach so much as one more day , if we could but be induced to open a way of escape for you . |
| 8 | He did not seek so much to answer the questions posed from the Enlightenment onwards as to reverse them . |
| 9 | On the social issue , Hughes notes the recent concern that girls may not benefit so much as boys from using computers . |
| 10 | This would not matter so much if Pound had not been a great technical innovator in verse writing . |
| 11 | Today it did not matter so much that he was different . |
| 12 | This might not matter so much in relation to a skill such as " estimating " as for a concept such as " area " or " place value " . |
| 13 | Each hand drilled hole had to be carefully positioned in order that it might have greatest effect , but it did not matter so much with machine holes . |
| 14 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 15 | If the hon. Gentleman sincerely believed that , he would not show so much artificial outrage . |
| 16 | Kvaerner Govan is now a small and efficient satellite of its parent across the North Sea , concentrating on specialist chemical , refrigerated and gas tankers , which do not generate so much competition from Korean and Japanese yards . |
| 17 | Angel was glad to be at home , and yet he did not feel so much part of the family as he used to . |
| 18 | John Wallace , one of the magistrates of the burgh of Arbroath , explained his reasons for seeking a sinecure appointment worth £50 or so for his son , by emphasising his fear that ‘ the lad will turn out but indifferently qualified for business otherways I should not give so much trouble in asking something for him … |
| 19 | I think erm I think is quite fair maybe if concessions could be raised to one fifty or two pounds but overall I think that people who can afford it spend such a lot of money on the raffle and we therefore give raffle tickets to those who can afford it could jealousy and on the raffle generally about a hundred pounds is made and if there , if there was more charge for tickets , people might not give so much for the raffles and also if you give but if you charge them a nominal sum and then shove other things at them on their options they might be more willing to give to optional choices like a raffle . |
| 20 | He found himself struggling on his back with the stifling presence of the flag wrapped round him like a shroud ; the strange thing was that as he weakly continued to struggle ( for the staff lay across his legs , pinning him down , and the lanyards had somehow trussed his elbows to his sides ) , he recognized the sensation immediately : this was a nightmare he had had on the night they had taken refuge in the Residency , and repeatedly since then throughout the siege ; when the Collector , cursing , had at last fought his way out of the flag , it was such a relief to escape from his nightmare that he felt he did not mind so much about the sepoys . |
| 21 | The hill he does not like so much . |
| 22 | The skilled reader does not guess so much as eliminate alternatives by the most efficient route . |
| 23 | Elephants are cheaper than machines , too , and do not cost so much to run . |
| 24 | It is simpler for golfers , of course , because there is an over-50 competition , besides which golf does not depend so much upon eye and agility and by using the wrinkles picked up over the years a player may still be competitive in his 50th year , as Raymond Floyd conclusively proved in the Masters at Augusta . |
| 25 | The problem we 've got with Greenpeace they might not have so much in the way of merchandise and they just have the stickers and |
| 26 | In Ernest and Elizabeth 's awful old kitchen , which had last had a re-fit in 1926 and in which Cecilia herself would not have so much as peeled a potato , though nothing would have made her say so , Tina was baking a birthday cake for Bienvida . |
| 27 | He was quite outrageous and she knew she should not have so much as smiled , but she found herself laughing with him . |
| 28 | I tried to get most of my work done today so that I would not have so much to do on the weekend . |
| 29 | She could see more easily how he had dazzled Jenny , who , after all , did not have so much experience of the world and who was young and trusting . |
| 30 | 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 . |