Example sentences of "much [adv] [adv] that [pron] " in BNC.

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1 In addition to these issues which arise from the nature of professional occupations and the control of professional courses , there are two other issues which lie at the heart of professional education , so much so indeed that they can be taken as defining characteristics of it .
2 When she first came she ate so much so often that I thought she had worms , but she settled down to a very moderate appetite , so the worming tablet the vet .
3 ‘ However , we would like to have ours up and running much sooner so that we can iron out the teething problems before it becomes law . ’
4 John Wayne may be fresh-faced as the Ringo Kid in Stagecoach ( 1939 ) but , a scant decade later , he was prematurely playing old men in She Wore A Yellow Ribbon ( 1948 ) , much more convincingly that he would 20 years later on as a real old man in the indulgent True Grit ( 1967 ) .
5 Haran has suggested however that in a few cases " the intended number is the first of the two " ; 29 but in Job 33.14 and Ps 62.12 , which he cites , it can be maintained much more convincingly that it is the second number that is " intended " or the more precise .
6 More massive stars would need to be hotter to balance their stronger gravitational attraction , making the nuclear fusion reactions proceed so much more rapidly that they would use up their hydrogen in as little as a hundred million years .
7 The diesel engine burns its fuel so much more efficiently that its hydro carbon and carbon monoxide emisions are low enough to dispense with a two way catalytic converter .
8 The very mention of her name awoke old pains ; it was only much later on that he began to wonder how Thomas knew about Alice atte Bowe .
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