Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did not seek so much to answer the questions posed from the Enlightenment onwards as to reverse them . |
| 2 | He only used spanners and gauges , scorning the runes or litanies which all other techs deemed so essential to woo the spirit of a machine . |
| 3 | A well set out manual with step-by-step diagrams , even cartoon pictures , would make all the difference , because the Multiverb has so much to offer the guitarist in terms of both quantity and quality . |
| 4 | There is nothing more important than that we should stick up for the system that we have inherited down the ages , and that still has so much to offer the people of our country . " |
| 5 | Here is a case where digitisation , which has so much to offer the historian , could actually lead to a deterioration in the nature of the source material available . |
| 6 | Yet nothing has in reality contributed so much to free the press from any control . |
| 7 | It is a great tribute that the Labour Party , having done so much to destroy the climate in which industry is successful , is now having to listen to what we 're saying . |
| 8 | In most countries north of the Alps wine was the luxury of the rich , even though most of the wine drunk at this time was what we should call ‘ vin ordinaire ’ ; and even communion wine ( which had done so much to foster the growth of the northern vineyards ) was drunk less and less by the laity in these centuries , until communion in one kind became the rule . |
| 9 | No man has ever done so much to popularise the kite as an educational instrument . |
| 10 | His books have done so much to popularise the sport . |
| 11 | Is not my hon. Friend the Member for York ( Mr. Gregory ) , who has done so much to encourage the arts in York , absolutely right ? |
| 12 | However , we believe that it was right that the statement should be made in the House , from which have come the decisions that , in our opinion , have done so much to encourage the IRA through the years . |
| 13 | The rise in house prices , which has recently done so much to increase the capital owned by a sizeable group of the population , has made it increasingly difficult for other people , and particularly those whose parents are poorer and who do not own a house , to join the ranks of the upwardly mobile , capital-accumulating home-owners . |
| 14 | The meetings in Washington recaptured something of the wartime Anglo-American relationship that had done so much to win the Second World War . |
| 15 | He plundered the opposition and hired Pearce Marchbank , a designer whose covers had done so much to establish the identity of Time Out on newsstands , as co-editor , along with Al Clark . |
| 16 | I could not help feeling proud of the missionary personnel who had done so much to help the fleeing refugees at Shwebo , Mohnyin and Myitkyina , and elsewhere . |
| 17 | I never really appreciated the full meaning of the word ‘ vision ’ , until the day that I had felt so powerless to change the cruel reality facing my children and people in my community in Glasgow , that I started to wish with all my heart that I could go to sleep and never wake up again . |
| 18 | Through her time of growing up , Miranda had had to talk so loud to interrupt the brawling , crying , canoodling jag that was her parent 's marriage , to entertain so insistently in order to divert them from the partying , bickering , kiss-and-make-up affair that absorbed them totally , that she had become as deaf to tremors and to nuances as her former games mistress shouting ‘ Bombs Coming Over ’ or ‘ Scrub the Decks ’ through a megaphone in the gym at the dim convent Miranda had been sent to for those three years of her childhood when the family had been in funds . |
| 19 | Teachers and schools , however well resourced and staffed , can only do so much to counter the effects of social disadvantage , and it is too easy to use them as scapegoats for the failure of political and economic policy . |
| 20 | In these schools , while national legislation will nudge staff to introduce procedures for involving and informing parents where this is required by law , it will not encourage them to go beyond such procedures to establish the kinds of voluntary open dialogue and day-to-day collaboration which can do so much to enhance the quality of a child 's education . |
| 21 | On peering through a hole in the wall I saw that Poulette was a strapping Ardennaise , performing her duties admirably , but that her poor master was having to press so hard to keep the plough in the soil that the entire weight of his body was being taken by his arms and he was advancing across the vineyards behind Poulette with his feet off the ground . |
| 22 | Indeed , one of the most disgraceful things that we have seen in the Chamber this week was the Maastricht agreement which , in terms of social policy , means that the opportunity to do so much to support the family , children and working mothers has been lost . |
| 23 | Tribute must be paid to the Restoration Committee , the Parochial Church Council , and the Reverend Paul Davies and Mrs Davies who worked so hard to raise the money for the work . |
| 24 | Finally , on your behalf , I want to express our thanks to Ian Smith and Ashley Collishaw and all the team who worked so hard to present the drama ‘ Hedda 's ’ . |
| 25 | I felt so privileged to see the semi-fractured religious edifice so beautifully linked together with sand blasted glass and aluminium supports . |
| 26 | As John Tutchin was later to ask , " Did our Fore-Fathers struggle so hard to curb the Ambition of their Kings who Invaded their Birth-Rights " , only for us to be " Oppress 'd by that very Power with which our Ancestors Defended their Liberties ? " |
| 27 | But the book is painful too simply because its figures try so hard to serve the system . |
| 28 | They took so long to repair the pipe that the ceiling was black and bits of plaster were falling off . |
| 29 | Chancellor Metternich , the reactionary old fox who did so much to determine the shape of Europe 's political advances after the downfall of Napoleon , did not like parliaments and , so far as possible , did without them . |
| 30 | All do so much to lift the spirits . |