Example sentences of "done so much [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Gardiner , who had done so much to crack Newry earlier , nearly had another goal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | After she and John had done so much to guard against the enemy without , the fatal wound was to come from the friend within . |
| 4 | Even Maxton could not have worked for long with the Communists whose infiltration he had done so much to resist . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | No man has ever done so much to popularise the kite as an educational instrument . |
| 7 | His books have done so much to popularise the sport . |
| 8 | At the same time she remains ‘ isolated from the very social structure which her courage and vitality have done so much to enliven and renew ’ ( Rose , ‘ Women in Men 's Clothing ’ , 389 — 90 ) . |
| 9 | Having done so much to point up the plight of blacks in the 1960s and 1970s , Ali reduced himself to little more than a comic figure in much the same way as Johnson had . |
| 10 | Luke Rittner , secretary general of the Arts Council , said inflation had outstripped grant aid by 6 per cent , and ‘ a failure by government to recognise this situation will be a cruel slap in the face to an arts world that has done so much to adapt to the market economy of the 1980s ’ . |
| 11 | The letter says the Princess of Wales has done so much to spread love for those who are HIV positive . |
| 12 | It may be appropriate to end this section with a quotation from H. C. A. Somerset whose research on examination and selection in African schools has done so much to clarify problems and suggest solutions : |
| 13 | It could have done so much to persuade this wayward son that he was actually killing himself . |
| 14 | The former shot himself in 1800 after the disastrous breakdown of his marriage to Elizabeth Vassall , the daughter of a Jamaican planter whose wealth had done so much to preserve Webster ambitions . |
| 15 | Is not my hon. Friend the Member for York ( Mr. Gregory ) , who has done so much to encourage the arts in York , absolutely right ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , although Robert Stewart had done so much to secure David 's release and towards administering Scotland in his absence , David did not trust him and , in fact , had him imprisoned . |
| 18 | Twenty years earlier , it had been his patriotic rhetoric which had briefly rallied the nation around him and done so much to consolidate his grip on absolute power . |
| 19 | THE majority of farmers have done so much to ensure quality food , a healthy environment , a beautiful countryside and the welfare of their animals , yet too often , they are still viewed as the people who make a handsome profit producing food mountains and destroying the environment . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The meetings in Washington recaptured something of the wartime Anglo-American relationship that had done so much to win the Second World War . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Moreover , the most impressive and unusual feature of Scottish bonding , the loyalty to a single lord which had done so much to make lordship so stabilizing a factor , was inevitably diminished . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I must mention the bridesmaids who have done so much to help my wife , and added glamour to the photographs which will remind us of this very happy occasion . |
| 26 | She also paid tribute to those who have done so much to help children , and mentioned Miss Esther Rantzen and her Childline . |
| 27 | The Duchess of Richmond and Gordon has done so much to build up these fine International Dressage Championships . |
| 28 | The musical policy of the label had changed — Oldfield thought punk rock ‘ absolutely disgusting music ’ — and it was as if he was no longer important to the label which he had done so much to build . |
| 29 | Corinth , which had done so much to bring on the war by urging on Sparta , was more damaged by it , and more permanently , than any other city . |