Example sentences of "[was/were] so much [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why in 1944 , when there was so much else to think about and to do , did those three key documents appear ? |
| 2 | My sisters sent me a melon , but there was so much else , that in the end it had to be given to people in the wards . ’ |
| 3 | But there was so much else to see that , as time flew by , it was no surprise to her that , having been thoroughly absorbed , she had forgotten entirely such necessities as eating , until Ven good-humouredly mentioned , ‘ Since I did n't wish to intrude on your pleasure to suggest a coffee-break , will you permit me , at ten past one , to suggest we have a break for lunch ? ’ |
| 4 | I also admired the BBC 's old " Tonight " programme , fronted by Cliff Michelmore , which was so much ahead of its time in news-magazine terms , by its imaginative use of film and the quality of its scripts . |
| 5 | Tonight , alone and quiet after the eventful day , the shadows seemed to hold ghosts of the past , and there was so much here to remind her that this had once been Elise 's home . |
| 6 | Dr Geoffrey Pasvol of the John Radcliffe Infirmary in Oxford said : ‘ There was so much there [ in Allison 's paper ] that Ian had said to me in the summer . ’ |