Example sentences of "much for " in BNC.
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| 1 | That two dozen of these interiors are in buildings statutorily ‘ listed ’ for their special architectural or historic interest say much for the low regard paid to pubs in the exercise of listed building control and indeed for the listing process itself . |
| 2 | So much for the bad news . |
| 3 | So much for the basic laws . |
| 4 | So much for a daring display of primitive combat ! |
| 5 | So much for good intentions . |
| 6 | The students from that time remembered a man with a sharp sense of the ridiculous ; who ragged them but was too shy to be intimate with them though they liked him much for his friendliness and his humour ; who was famous for long , sudden , and embarrassing silences ; who was so eccentric that none of them believed that he could later be a man of distinction in England or his Church ; a man who loved theology — they never met anywhere else a man who so loved theology , and who regarded theology as the highest intellectual activity for humanity ; a fierce defender of liberty of opinion , for Marxists as for anyone else ; whose principal theme was the glory of God , and who was evidently touched by his ideas of Plato ; who did not give the impression of a mind of exceptional ability — there was not enough knife in the mind — but who gave the impression of being an exceptional person ; who disturbed other people 's prayers in chapel with convulsive fidgets and sudden face-rubbings — they regarded him as tense in his devotions and were afraid of a nervous breakdown ; who had a manifest and rare mystical sense of the immediate presence of God , a presence so brilliant that it could almost overpower . |
| 7 | So much for Clause IV . |
| 8 | So much for experience . |
| 9 | So much for the ‘ how ’ of hooliganism but what of the ‘ why ’ ? |
| 10 | So much for the asides — but how good is Lewis on the subject he sets himself — on Milton ? |
| 11 | So much for them . |
| 12 | Much for our comfort : . |
| 13 | THANK you so much for Tony Parsons ' brilliant article . |
| 14 | So much for the idea that two-tier pricing will somehow be too complicated . |
| 15 | His first sight of her was reassuringly normal : a tall , dark girl dressed in a good grey suit of the type favoured by Francesca , which acted effectively as a uniform without doing much for her . |
| 16 | So much for liberalism . |
| 17 | So much for the handwringing about the decline of the political process that goes on in Washington . |
| 18 | So much for traditional cabinet government . |
| 19 | So much for Barry boasting at school that Rebel only ate the best . |
| 20 | I have never cared much for men who are all man : they are the ones who smugly believe they must be irresistible to me , and take elaborately cautious steps to protect their priceless male virginity from what they seem to imagine will be my marauding hands . |
| 21 | She did n't care too much for other dogs but her pet hates were chickens and cats . |
| 22 | So much for Rave On Madchester . |
| 23 | I do n't care much for knocking people out — that is not the craft . |
| 24 | So much for names , so much for words . |
| 25 | So much for Leitrim 's Castle . |
| 26 | So much for Christian charity , I thought ; but then it does not do to mix God and religion . |
| 27 | ‘ Thank you so much for praying . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't think that his wife cared much for ice cream , ’ said a relative . |
| 29 | So much for those who think that the Punch of old had a magic quality we have lost for ever . |
| 30 | So much for the Clean-Up Soho Campaign . |