Example sentences of "[adv] much [conj] [conj] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 's a psychological as aspect in some so much that if they think that a policeman is gon na walk round the corner er , they 're not so keen on doing it . |
| 2 | But to me the excitement of the job is so much that if something comes along , I do n't think twice . |
| 3 | The problem may not be so much that when we talk of God we say nothing , as that we say too much — we say things that seem to combine irreconcilable images that can never be focussed upon one ‘ being ’ . |
| 4 | We both altered so much that when we went back to Middleton , Dave Fielding saw it in both of us , ’ she says . |
| 5 | A woman he loved so much that when he wrote a legal textbook , he dedicated it to her . |
| 6 | Loved so much that when he died , his ashes , on his special instruction , were sprinkled over a rose bush he had planted in her memory at a crematorium . |
| 7 | One well in Bondgate stank so much that when it was drained the decomposed body of a three-month-old baby was found . |
| 8 | I 'm not so bothered about the windows so much cos if they break someone 's bound to hear them smash . |
| 9 | He says he says that it 's gon na stop crime so much cos if everyone can have a gun . |
| 10 | The first few strenuous bridging moves sowed the seeds of doubt — not over the route 's identity so much as whether he could get up it . |
| 11 | I have been accused of favouring Transworld in the past , so I feel I must defend myself and say that it is not that I love Transworld so much as that I admire success . |
| 12 | ‘ No , it 's not the cab , Mr Fitzroy , so much as where it 's been . ’ |
| 13 | well erm , sort of in that erm , I was asked to come and do this talk , and so I , I organise to make sure that I had access to some of Gaugin 's work and then to write poems about it , erm , so , erm , only in as much as that it was a waiting to hear this talk , but a lot of my work is through commissions and so I find myself writing about things that I perhaps do n't have any interest in particularly , erm , or I find actually in a waiting , asked to write about anything is quite er exciting and actually using my skill I think it should be , as a writer I should really be able to write about everything . |
| 14 | As it happened , Clara was wrong , but she was not to know she was wrong , and she suffered as much as though she had been right . |
| 15 | Only in as much as where we are . |
| 16 | The nice people are still there to enjoy the music , although perhaps not as much as if they 'd been allowed to express themselves and some of the nasty people are beginning to appreciate the actual music . |
| 17 | Because she was tired of looking at flats that were really bedsits , and bedsits that were really cupboards , but cost as much as if they had been flats . |
| 18 | So that in my judgment that regulation can be referred to because it is embodied in the Act itself and , having a quasi-parliamentary validity , is a good indication of the wishes of the legislature , just as much as if it were enacted in the Act itself . |
| 19 | They had ceased to be such holders , because , in effect , in their hands the document had ceased to be a negotiable instrument quite as much as if there had been on the acceptance of the draft by the plaintiffs an erasure of the writing of the signature to the note . |
| 20 | I love her every bit as much as if she were my natural daughter . |
| 21 | The voice told me it was Cawthorne as much as if he 'd said ‘ spade bitch ’ . |
| 22 | But apart from that he , he was a , he was er humorous too by nature and er he was , he was quite free in as much as if you made an approach to him , and he understood that you were n't there just for fun , he would set up a meeting and discuss it with you , er and go into details and at the same time , give you an answer at the earliest possible moment . |
| 23 | When you get a fifth of something you get twice as much as when you get a tenth . |
| 24 | That hurt him almost as much as when I slapped his face for not letting me escape . |
| 25 | She loved him so very much that if he suggested they take hands and spurt to the cliff-edge and plunge off the edge together like lovesick lemmings she would do it . |
| 26 | All the same , I doubt very much that when I was in a comparable situation I would have had the same faith and determination that Tom did . |
| 27 | And for those who liked to go to the office every morning by the 8.15 there were class rooms and classes where nobody learnt very much but where everybody thought they were doing something . |
| 28 | It looked very much as though I would have to find some other career . |
| 29 | ‘ I feel very much as though I am a curiosity , ’ says Frances Broomfield , an artist-in-residence in Ealing Hospital 's Geriatric Ward . |
| 30 | He tried to kill you and that makes it look very much as though he 's the person who killed Sabine Jourdain . ’ |