Example sentences of "[adv] much that it " in BNC.
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| 1 | The danger to an investor would be if the investment trust 's net asset value fell so much that it could not afford to meet its commitments to the zero dividend preference shareholders . |
| 2 | Our social mores have changed so much that it is easy to single out as personal characteristics those which were actually held in common by neatly everyone . |
| 3 | He has raised the reputation of the Chelsea Garden so much that it excels all the gardens of Europe for its amazing variety of plants of all orders and classes and from all climates , as I survey with wonder and delight , this 19th July , 1764 . |
| 4 | ‘ If you love somebody so much that it hurts then you are loving too much . |
| 5 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 6 | It did well , in a truncated version , but had cost so much that it did n't earn the studio a profit , and consequently Thalberg fired the profligate Stroheim during the filming of Merry-Go-Round . |
| 7 | I got on to the roof : the upper levels of mortar had crumbled so much that it was doubtful if the stack would survive the next gale . |
| 8 | His Edinburgh roots are freely attacked by the other members , who call the city 's fabulous medieval showpiece Spam Castle , claiming that the building cost Edinburgh so much that it could n't afford anything worth having . |
| 9 | The animal may have been wounded or simply have deteriorated so much that it is no longer able to catch deer and other prey . |
| 10 | Transport cost so much that it was virtually impossible to make a profit by importing anything that could be produced locally ; although salt cod was brought across the Atlantic , in general nothing but luxury goods like gold , silver , furs , and spices would yield a reasonable return after paying for a costly ocean voyage . |
| 11 | However , puberty affects values and beliefs so much that it may not be until the mid-twenties that we can ask realistically what career priorities a person has . |
| 12 | The significance of this event was not so much that it was government interfering in artistic freedom , as liberal would-be martyrs would have it , but that it showed how frightened the President was of the populist , anti-intellectual feeling which has developed in the US over the last few years . |
| 13 | Living too far away from things : a ) does n't do anything at all , b ) extends the nose so much that it sags and closes down , c ) allows the nose to examine other things which are too close and therefore blunts it again . |
| 14 | The reason for this is not so much that it was beyond some people 's capacity to do imposition and so on ; but rather that it cost employers money to train people to do such tasks . |
| 15 | The frog relies on its fly detectors so much that it probably can not see a motionless insect , and will starve rather than eat one . |
| 16 | The argument that public sector employment has expanded so much that it has absorbed too much labour and it has thus had an adverse effect on the national economy will be examined in the next chapter . |
| 17 | What it meant was that matter could curve a region in on itself so much that it would effectively cut itself off from the rest of the universe . |
| 18 | Not all the people who have been called structuralists have been happy to accept the label , but this suggests not so much that it has been over-enthusiastically applied , but that far from being a school or a doctrine , structuralism is indeed a generalized revolution in ways of thinking . |
| 19 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 20 | If it is sloping to the right so much that it is nearly parallel with the diagonal it will never be completed unless drastic action is taken . |
| 21 | They bashed hell out of it so much that it bust wide open , and we had to use all our reserves to hold them . |
| 22 | If it is sloping to the right so much that it is nearly parallel with the diagonal it will never be completed unless drastic action is taken . |
| 23 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 24 | When successive instabilities have reduced the level of predictability so much that it is appropriate to describe a flow statistically , rather than in every detail , then one says that the flow is turbulent . |
| 25 | She wanted to believe him , wanted to believe that note of compassion in his voice was real so much that it hurt . |
| 26 | She loved him , so much that it seemed impossible that she had lived her life this long without him , impossible that he could n't know it from her response . |
| 27 | She sat with her back against the log and busily set about finding the Thermos of water with hands that shook so much that it took every ounce of her control not to spill a drop of the precious liquid as she raised the cup to her lips . |
| 28 | Smiths claims the record companies are charging so much that it 's having to offer large discounts . |
| 29 | It 's not so much that it |
| 30 | the Health Service is deteriorating so bad , and they said no not so much that it 's that they 're not , they 've got enough staff but they 're not being managed correctly |