Example sentences of "so [adv] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Houghton convinced himself he was searching so avidly for the match that he was almost willing himself to find it . |
| 2 | His preparing himself so keenly for a new and final phase of the war , and then not seeing even the beginning of it , was the final irony . |
| 3 | I would have been killing myself laughing if the team were n't battling away so furiously for a winner and the whole place going mad . |
| 4 | However fraught the relationship with their mother , how could she have cared so little for the older woman as to send notice of her intentions through another teenager ? |
| 5 | But how did it happen that the Davy miner 's lamp worked out so well for the owners and so badly for the miners ? |
| 6 | So much for a daring display of primitive combat ! |
| 7 | So much for a tradition whose origins may be traced back to early classical times ! |
| 8 | So much for a few of the perils — what are the pleasures ? |
| 9 | So much for a blatant attack , but what about the friendly stranger who suddenly comes too close for comfort in the car park outside the local pub ? |
| 10 | So much for a weekend break on Alpha Centauri ! |
| 11 | So much for a progressive education . |
| 12 | So much for a passing game — hoof the ball into the other half and see what happens . |
| 13 | So much for a romantic myth that has given Hollywood scriptwriters a nice living . |
| 14 | So much for the bad news . |
| 15 | So much for the basic laws . |
| 16 | So much for the ‘ how ’ of hooliganism but what of the ‘ why ’ ? |
| 17 | So much for the asides — but how good is Lewis on the subject he sets himself — on Milton ? |
| 18 | So much for the idea that two-tier pricing will somehow be too complicated . |
| 19 | So much for the handwringing about the decline of the political process that goes on in Washington . |
| 20 | So much for the Clean-Up Soho Campaign . |
| 21 | So much for the objection . |
| 22 | So much for the diplomatic niceties . |
| 23 | So much for the mainstream , but how successful were the left at staying afloat in , or even swimming against , this formidable rightward moving tide ? |
| 24 | So much for the rivers themselves . |
| 25 | So much for the death of St Pierre . |
| 26 | So much for the younger generation and their attitude to the new technology . |
| 27 | So much for the matter of tracing . |
| 28 | So much for the third-party element . |
| 29 | So much for the adult assessment of the total output of Enid Blyton . |
| 30 | So much for the various qualities of books . |