Example sentences of "[adv] much [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt that his experience in the film Hello , Dolly ! had given him the confidence to do Billy , and he remained grateful to Gene Kelly , who had helped him so much during the picture 's making . |
| 2 | I 've certainly felt that again and again , not so much at the inadequacy of the politicians , as at my own inadequacy . |
| 3 | Church planting is , I sense , so much at the heart of God for this country at this moment . |
| 4 | Finally she returned to her dorm , terrified not so much at the prospect of getting caught but because she had come back empty handed . |
| 5 | They have meant that women are no longer quite so much at the mercy of their biology and may engage in sexual intercourse free from the worry of unwanted pregnancy . |
| 6 | Even compassion for a man so much at the mercy of his physical urges . |
| 7 | He wanted nothing so much at the moment as to be out of this man 's piercing sight and withering scrutiny . |
| 8 | She told him about the notes , the broken glass and spilled wine that had shaken her so much at the time . |
| 9 | And er my memories really go back to er the , probably the more pleasant things in the erm mission parties that we were invited to , the film shows in the Officers ' Mess , er going to a Glenn Miller dance erm which was held in the hangar up here erm , I do n't think we really , or I really appreciated them so much at the time as I do now . |
| 10 | Let's look not so much at the left right divide , but but at the tone of the party . |
| 11 | Certainly to respond to the gentleman who was suggesting that there 's no difference between us as adults and children , certainly there is the child in all adults erm that does respond , perhaps , in a childish way at times , but I would suggest that as adults we hopefully have gotten to a place in ourselves which we are not so much at the mercy of our immediate wishes and wants and feelings that we are able to be more measured in the way that we handle ourselves and our feelings , and therefore in a position to help our children to develop that capacity within themselves as they are growing up erm and erm I 've forgotten the other point I was going to make just following on from what Elizabeth there in the studio was saying . |
| 12 | They must have quality given to them because their varying dimensions can add so much to the design . |
| 13 | Thanks so much to the thousands of you who took the time and trouble to fill out the Pet Census in the April issue . |
| 14 | These areas of activity are dealt with in detail elsewhere in this report but I am very pleased in this foreword to highlight a most successful year of achievement — a year which owed so much to the inspiration given to use all by those who saved the Nation in 1940 . |
| 15 | After contributing so much to the proceedings in the Finnish capital , and to the 30,000 words of the final act , Romania became one of its victims . |
| 16 | The cuisine of France has contributed so much to the culinary traditions of the world that to attempt to summarise all that is good about French cooking in the space of a page or two would be impossible . |
| 17 | Along with the building and waterfront trades , garbage collection is a stronghold of the organised-crime syndicates whose nefarious activities add so much to the cost of doing business in New York . |
| 18 | For a man who has contributed so much to the world of chemistry , could we do any less ? |
| 19 | The question , then , relates not so much to the continuing vigour of the church , but as to which direction it will take . |
| 20 | Therefore considerations of safety relate mainly to operational capability to handle chemicals safely and not so much to the characteristics of the product . |
| 21 | My first car , an MG TC , was the best car I 've ever owned — it left so much to the imagination ! |
| 22 | The MG TC : ‘ Left so much to the imagination , ’ says a reader |
| 23 | To abandon them at such a moment implies that they did not , after all , mean so much to the animal — they were not a ‘ safe haven ’ in quite the way they had pictured themselves . |
| 24 | He forces you to work at controlling the character because he brings so much to the part . ’ |
| 25 | As always , Elizabeth shows herself a thoroughly English writer in her sensitiveness to the vagaries of the weather and to minor class distinctions ; and whatever Dr Johnson may say about the unimportance of the former or contemporary prigs about the latter , they contribute so much to the variety of life and conversation in England . |
| 26 | Although I have serious reservations about the methodology of most of these studies ( in that they are far too pessimistic about the ability of the business community to respond to changing circumstances following changing relative prices ) and although some of the shortages which appear are due not so much to the limits of nature as the intervention and regulation of governments , nevertheless they raise sufficiently serious doubts about such things as the effects of carbon dioxide and the present lack of adequate recycling that I believe they must be taken seriously . |
| 27 | We are lucky enough to be living during a warm period ( interglacial ) of this ice age , but our luck can not last forever ; at some time during the next few thousand , few hundred or even just few years the next cold period ( glacial ) will commence unless humanity 's pollution contributes so much to the greenhouse effect that global warming prevents the glaciers from spreading . |
| 28 | ‘ Beating Wigan in any game means so much to the St Helens club and its supporters . ’ |
| 29 | He gave so much to the side : speed , commitment , control and continuity ’ . |
| 30 | I am only one of the many who owe so much to the man . ’ |