Example sentences of "much for [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 So much for a passing game — hoof the ball into the other half and see what happens .
2 So much for a progressive education .
3 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 ?
4 So much for a daring display of primitive combat !
5 Thank you so very much for a lovely evening on Friday , it really was delightful .
6 ‘ Been waiting all the morning for a bit of attention from my only daughter , not much for a sick mother to ask , is it ? ’
7 So much for a romantic myth that has given Hollywood scriptwriters a nice living .
8 So much for the general account for how ( as I see it ) meaning is achieved in the natural use of language .
9 So much for the ancestral sources of signals : let us consider the evolutionary process by which they are modified from ancestral behaviour to elaborate signal .
10 So much for the new cars .
11 so much for the new man … what about his partner … what made Glenn Hoddle leave Swindon
12 So much for the normal life cycle of the virus in nature .
13 So much for the melodic line .
14 So much for the elementary properties of pencils .
15 So much for the self-inflicted handicaps .
16 So much for the third-party element .
17 So much for the perfect end to a perfect night , she thought resignedly as she walked up the path .
18 So much for the mainstream , but how successful were the left at staying afloat in , or even swimming against , this formidable rightward moving tide ?
19 That two dozen of these interiors are in buildings statutorily ‘ listed ’ for their special architectural or historic interest say much for the low regard paid to pubs in the exercise of listed building control and indeed for the listing process itself .
20 So much for the various qualities of books .
21 Not much for the young .
22 So much for the radical conscience .
23 So much for the simple carbohydrates .
24 So much for the diplomatic niceties .
25 So much for the paperless office : Microsoft Corp claims that , stacked up , the manuals for the 100m copies of MD-DOS it has sold would reach to the moon and back — 10 times .
26 So much for the jerk-off theories put forward by the police , in which I figure as an adulterous version of George Joseph Smith — not the brides in the bath but the wittol in the water .
27 so much for the Italian job Gloucester are back home training this week and getting themselves ready for the first league match of the season … that 's against wasps at Kingsholm on saturday ( 1 )
28 And thank you so much for the beautiful card , the towel and bookmarks .
29 So much for the permissive society . )
30 There are interesting telescopic objects in Boo¨tes , but not much for the binocular observer .
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