Example sentences of "[verb] so much [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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . " |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Yet nothing has in reality contributed so much to free the press from any control . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | No man has ever done so much to popularise the kite as an educational instrument . |
| 9 | His books have done so much to popularise the sport . |
| 10 | Is not my hon. Friend the Member for York ( Mr. Gregory ) , who has done so much to encourage the arts in York , absolutely right ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The meetings in Washington recaptured something of the wartime Anglo-American relationship that had done so much to win the Second World War . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | All do so much to lift the spirits . |
| 21 | On the field , Hastings had his problems at Twickenham after the loss of Craig Chalmers , who does so much to give the midfield defence its integrity and coherence . |