Example sentences of "[adv] much [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We say someone has AIDS when the virus has weakened the body so much that certain new illnesses are developing . |
| 2 | Fortunately , most of them try one flight and dislike it so much that they avoid flying again . |
| 3 | And was out every night , so much that Lucy actually said : I 've called you ! , her glorious eyes questioning , troubled green , burning brown . |
| 4 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 5 | They are aware of the need to improve their length so much that they put in the extra line so they are looking at a 1 or 1.5m ( 4 or 5ft ) area . |
| 6 | The problem is to produce a high quality insulator , without heating the substrate so much that the substrate itself suffers . |
| 7 | Unfortunately , Bergman has decided not to direct his own script , but has instead put it in the hands of the Danish director Bille August , who made Pelle the Conquerer , which won last year 's Palme d'Or at Cannes and which Bergman is rumoured to like so much that he has already seen it six times . |
| 8 | ‘ A girlfriend made me a wonderful big , bright red jumper which I liked so much that I asked her to knit me another . |
| 9 | Parallel computing has matured so much that users and manufacturers are beginning to discuss standardisation . |
| 10 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He befuddled them so much that we just ended up paying them off . ’ |
| 13 | Constant change was worse still ; in the words of one satirist , the scandal of the player was not so much that he disguised his real self in playing ; rather he had no self apart from that which he was playing : ‘ The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledge him a Rogue and errant , tor his chiefe essence is , A daily Counterfeit … |
| 14 | It is not so much that the culture of masculine honour is a sublimation of homosexuality , ; rather masculine honour repeatedly incites what , heterosexually , it presupposes but can not admit . |
| 15 | But to me the excitement of the job is so much that if something comes along , I do n't think twice . |
| 16 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 17 | Not so much that here on a fine June morning a man lay murdered , but that he , Wexford , had found him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The Chinese used their belts so much that the metal buckle came off . |
| 20 | Arguably , she is already on the screen so much that further appearances only supplement the passionate irritation which she provokes even among those who have voted for her . |
| 21 | It was no longer just go out and do a gig with your equipment — there were lighting men , dancers , singers , — there was so much that I think no-one could handle it and he was wanting more and more to make the show very good . |
| 22 | By the end of 1959 , the economy had improved so much that his oft quoted quip ‘ You 've never had it so good ’ had a ring of truth about it . |
| 23 | Exports , which used to be the engine of growth , are down and imports are way up — by so much that in 1990 Korea experienced its first current-account deficit in five years . |
| 24 | If so , then where the Aristotelians go wrong is not so much that their procedures do not get us knowledge , as that they have a restricted or incorrect notion of what knowledge actually is . |
| 25 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 26 | Procter 's anger at this annoyed Lloyd so much that he told his captain he was going to hit him over the pavilion ; and he did just that — next ball . |
| 27 | Willey held things together for a while and the total reached 252 , helped by no fewer than 52 extras since the ball was moving around so much that Murray had a very hard time behind the stumps . |
| 28 | I love you so much that Christ is the means of reconciliation . ’ |
| 29 | He wanted to be with her so much that he could hardly breathe . |
| 30 | The thought appalled him so much that he went into the attic and slid back into bed without saying anything more to either of them . |