Example sentences of "have [vb pp] so much [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My daughter has changed so much since I left . |
| 2 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 3 | It would n't have mattered so much if the nights had brought the compensations she had been led to expect . |
| 4 | This need not have mattered so much if he had made his contextual analysis more rigorous . |
| 5 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 6 | They would n't have minded so much if 63-year-old Dave had picked the right offices . |
| 7 | He would n't have minded so much if there 'd been a rise somewhere along the line — a moment of triumph , no matter how brief — but he 'd gone from children 's programmes to women 's programmes to the Devil in one slow , unspectacular but continuous slide . |
| 8 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 9 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 10 | That 's why yields have grown so much because there 's been a certainty of relatively high and growing prices , and therefore , in , in order to , to maximize their income , farmers are , er , maximizing yields . |
| 11 | Completing this task outside the ERM will be more difficult , but it would be a betrayal of those who have sacrificed so much if the task were to be abandoned . |
| 12 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |
| 13 | Things have changed so much since I lived there . |