Example sentences of "like so [adj] [adv] " in BNC.

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1 Boulestin had found , like so many before and since , that in England the price of perfection is too high .
2 Like so much else in these cantos , the last line is midleading , since it suggests it was by an edict of Henry III that the Magna Charta was sent to all cathedrals and read four times a year , whereas Coke 's Institutes make it clear that this was on the contrary an enactment of Edward I. ‘ Selinunte ’ and ‘ Akragas ’ ( the old name of Agrigento ) are ancient Greek cities in Sicily .
3 Like so much else in music , this is a process that involves the passage of a lot of Lime : learning a work on the page and then on the orchestra ?
4 In the minority of Mary , this — like so much else — was to change dramatically .
5 Like so much else in Lebanon , it was physically possible but we never met anyone who had actually achieved this .
6 Like so much else the Romans had established , they and the villas were left to decay and collapse .
7 The episode was reported minimally in the Press , but played down like so much else during wartime .
8 That remains a mystery like so much else .
9 Yet , as they finally declare their love for each other — having been tricked into so doing — Beatrice asks one favour : It seems to me that the fact that this request comes in prose is a sign that it is not to be taken seriously , since it , too , like so much else in the play , is based on false appearances .
10 Like so much else about Paris and New York , that sounds only too familiar in London .
11 He did his deep-breathing exercises ; evidently , like so much else in his life , ritual ; then smiled at me and jumped back twenty-four hours .
12 ‘ Well , like so much else tonight , your timing 's perfect . ’
13 How could he ever admit to Maisie that the very thing that had brought them together was , like so much else in his life , a lie ?
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