Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] much " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver was very disappointed ; he had thought about Mr Brownlow so much recently , and had always hoped to find him again . |
| 2 | The particular richness of the Mary Rose findings was not in the rare ‘ art ’ objects so much as in the wealth of objects used in everyday Tudor life . |
| 3 | And er half heatedly she decided she ought , she could n't have any more children you know she 'd , I do n't think it was money so much that she thought she 'd got enough and somebody told her about this Slippery Elm , well you could get a Slippery Elm drink , you know you know these milky foods if you 've got a poor tummy , that that can , er she bought a tin of this Slippery Elm drink , and she drunk gallons of it and it was doing her good and she thought er she thought it would n't , she 'd gone wrong you see . |
| 4 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 5 | I think Craven Arms , the thing Craven Arms actually want money so much as support . |
| 6 | The gravity of Jupiter crushes its hydrogen so much that pressures of this magnitude might occur at the centre of the planet , forming metallic hydrogen which undergoes fusion thereby generating heat within it . |
| 7 | The payoff is not in the end products so much as in the energy that can be tapped . |
| 8 | I 'm sure that young children like stories about giants so much because that 's what adults seem like to them . |
| 9 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |
| 10 | The Quorn , opposing them , had rumbled Drew 's Exocet weapon , and spent the match giving Perdita so much hassle that she only hit the ball twice . |
| 11 | His eyes were cold water and he spat , which distressed Melanie so much she did not take in what he said . |
| 12 | However , it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented . |
| 13 | Yet Lord Pugh despises sensual gratification so much , I hear , he had his taste buds excised . |
| 14 | While a strict Freudian interpretation of the function of dreaming would not necessarily imply that it preserved sanity so much as sleep , the neo-Freudians had developed the notion that during dreams conflicts were resolved , giving dreams a purpose in maintaining psychic equilibrium . |
| 15 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 16 | With that brilliant pair Torville and Dean so much in the news , Easter Course members at Walsall could n't believe their eyes when these idols appeared before them — on roller skates ! |
| 17 | Its purchase lifted her heart so much that she bought another . |
| 18 | Perhaps they did n't take things to heart so much . |
| 19 | One example : black churches , which organise services from financial credit to remedial education , carry enormous influence in poor black neighbourhoods , and offer the kinds of local leadership that Mr Kemp so much wants to nurture . |
| 20 | Sarah so much , my God it 's frightening ! |
| 21 | ‘ I am a great fan of the OU , it has broadened my horizons so much . |
| 22 | They din not allow the Spurs defenders so much time on the ball . |
| 23 | I never wanted my Mum so much in my life as I did at that moment . |
| 24 | I kept fucking your Mum so much my bollock fell off . |
| 25 | It seems that the work I do takes so much of what is essential in me that there is nothing left . |
| 26 | The painting is estimated at a mere FFr50–80 million , not because of the recession so much as the fact it must obviously stay in France . |
| 27 | I 've got ta confess , I do n't like th the expression Whitsun so much , I prefer , er the expression , what it really is , it is pentecost . |
| 28 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 29 | Really , he says , people do n't notice V A T so much , others believe income tax will have to take some of the strain , but not by putting up the rates , that would be too blatant . |
| 30 | It was n't the noise so much . |