Example sentences of "[modal v] not have [vb pp] so much " in BNC.
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| 1 | I should not have said so much . |
| 2 | He could not have done so much in so brief a time . |
| 3 | ( So Lucie could not have changed so much . ) |
| 4 | This need not have mattered so much if he had made his contextual analysis more rigorous . |
| 5 | They believe they would not have achieved so much had they tried to score points by claiming victory every time an amendment was made or a change was accepted . |
| 6 | 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 . |