Example sentences of "[adv] much [adv] that [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ’ Natural Thing ’ does sample Pink Floyd , so much so that one D. Gilmour shares the writing credit .
2 Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries .
3 So much so that one night I actually asked : ‘ Jim , do you still love me ? ’
4 That institution , peopled by a number of well-known figures , but from which a number of others had been turned away — so much so that one of them , C. E. M. Joad , wrote that ‘ the corridors of the Ministry were hissing with the sound of deflated reputations ’ — ; proved extremely difficult to approach , still more to negotiate with and most of all to extract money from .
5 So much so that one day at Cockerton School , Darlington , Philip fell over and hurt himself and asked for his sister .
6 But also in another sense , conservation has frequently been seen as an imposition , so much so that many local people rioted , formed armed resistance and used the issue as a nucleus for organising wide-ranging political dissent in eastern Africa against the British colonial administration ( Young and Fosbrooke 1960 ; Cliffe 1964 ) .
7 Is my right hon. Friend aware that the fund-holding system has been a spectacular success — so much so that many of the more trendy , intellectual GPs who were initially sceptical of it now welcome it more and more with open arms ?
8 So much so that many people internal to Digital never bother venturing out into the big bad world of USENET for their kicks .
9 It is wise to bear in mind that similar reasoning has been used by many others — so much so that much of our supposed ‘ knowledge ’ of the history of English phonology is filtered through this kind of reasoning .
10 All five component parts react with and are interdependent upon each other , so much so that all five behave as a single living entity .
11 I was grateful to him because I was really shaking with fear , so much so that poor Dawn could hardly sit up straight on my hand .
12 some of the most successful of the small indies have achieved success largely by catering for specialist markets ( generally ignored by the majors ) and developing a good reputation for its product with the fans of particular styles , so much so that some indie labels enjoy instant sales of a new release on the strength of the quality of their past product .
13 So much so that several social services departments in the United Kingdom are now issuing their elderly and disabled meals-on-wheels customers with small freezers and a week 's supply of meals for them to store and heat up themselves .
14 While the Vale of York and the Wold country might have been reasonably fruitful , the province as a whole lived close to the margin of subsistence — so much so that periodic military activity on the Border was invariably handicapped by the need to import virtually all supplies , even of forage .
15 Others are virtually indistinguishable from the flowers with which they associate — so much so that smaller insects keep settling on them .
16 So much so that last month saw the formation of a national body for abseilers and rappellers — the British Abseil Association , which aims to act as a focus for those interested solely in abseiling , whether as an adventure activity , competitively or as a sponsored activity for fund raising .
17 He looked tired , in the bruised way that people who are physically slight do look tired , but not so much so that any of the congregation would notice .
18 This is because a large amount of lustre pottery was made in the region — so much so that any white-bodied pottery decorated with pink or purple lustre was , and sometimes still is , called Sunderland lustre , whether it was made in Sunderland or not .
19 What should have been a triumphant closing ceremony turned into an embarrassing muddle , so much so that Polish television switched to a football match .
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