Example sentences of "much so [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , the whole programme had an unsually philosophical undercurrent ( quoting , for example , philosopher Mary Midgeley ) — so much so that it sometimes seemed less like a current affairs report than an enquiry into a fundamental shift in Western attitudes to nature . |
| 2 | some of the most successful of the small indies have achieved success largely by catering for specialist markets ( generally ignored by the majors ) and developing a good reputation for its product with the fans of particular styles , so much so that some indie labels enjoy instant sales of a new release on the strength of the quality of their past product . |
| 3 | There were also problems with the semi-automatic gearbox and a broken constant-velocity joint , so much so that Mansell was eased into fourth place on the grid by a very impressive lap from his team mate . |
| 4 | Similar changes in attitude have been in evidence throughout the training of these recruits , so much so that the unenlightened diehard points indignantly to an apparent decline in discipline and general standard . |
| 5 | However , it turned out to be a very relaxed meeting , so much so that when the private session was over and the press were invited in to take photographs , the Prince said to the Pope , ‘ Let me introduce you to my press corps . ’ |
| 6 | Suddenly , great guffaws of laughter that went on and on broke the silence , so much so that people began to stretch forward to see who they were coming from . |
| 7 | So much so that they are seen as ‘ natural . ’ |
| 8 | Hatred and fear of women is not new and is overt in religions , so much so that the evolvement of codes of courtesy to the female has been felicitous . |
| 9 | During the 1980s these quasi-government agencies became a convenient means of off-balance-sheet financing ; so much so that they have now amassed nearly $1 trillion-worth of obligations underwritten by the American taxpayer . |
| 10 | Observation and experiment in order to discover the properties of things in the material world is a worthwhile activity ; so much so that Locke sometimes honours its results with the more dignified term ‘ experimental knowledge ’ . |
| 11 | She was a devout appeaser , totally apathetic about world politics , but quite positive about Charles Willoughby ; so much so that she 'd allowed him to move into her flat in the enormous new block facing south across the river to the huge but fairly new Battersea Power Station . |
| 12 | So much so that at one point she was actually investigated by the Inquisition — in its mildest form — who were however unable to discipline or control her life . |
| 13 | ’ Natural Thing ’ does sample Pink Floyd , so much so that one D. Gilmour shares the writing credit . |
| 14 | Nevertheless it all sounded pretty convincing , so much so that you came out wondering whether that persistent zit on your face was n't the result of bad diet , but actually something implanted by alien beings , determined for their own mysterious purposes to make you suffer the social embarrassment of a bad complexion . |
| 15 | So much so that supporters now have three distinct types , with inevitable gradations in between . |
| 16 | ( So much so that when , at the 1989 party conference , a delegate got up to speak in defence of Sunday as a day of worship , he was met with a chorus of boos from shopkeepers on the floor . ) |
| 17 | Above all , the flight of Rudolf Hess to Scotland gave rise to every conceivable kind of speculation — so much so that one report in Bavaria dubbed May 1941 ‘ the month of rumours ’ , as tales surfaced everywhere about the disloyalty , corruption , theft on a grand scale , and flight abroad of Reich notables such as Himmler and Ley and various Bavarian Party bosses , among them Gauleiter Adolf Wagner , said to have been caught trying to get across the Swiss border with 22 million Reichmarks he had stolen from the confiscated property of dissolved monasteries . |
| 18 | These changes show how financial pressures brought about the collapse of the early Roman coinage system ; so much so that it seems that for a time the Roman state had to fight the war on credit given by some of its citizens . |
| 19 | An oil and gas businessman , down from New York , he was one of Littledale 's ‘ bloody types ’ ; so much so that he had celebrated his donation for weapons , to the dismay of Channell 's PR lady , by going to the Hay Adams and ordering steak tartare . |
| 20 | So much so that I stopped the rehearsal at that point . |
| 21 | Physically both had changed — so much so that Jason did n't recognise Kylie at first . |
| 22 | The Ramsay Street choir was a sensation , so much so that the crowd instantly bayed for an encore . |
| 23 | She is terrified of flying … so much so that often she has to fight an inner turmoil even to step on the plane . |
| 24 | She seems to have been wholly unaware that she was in fact queen of a kingdom with a justifiably high opinion of itself — so much so that it is actually supremely ironic that Mary , brought up in one of the greatest of European countries , should have found this one , smaller , but passionately European , so much less interesting and appealing than the kingdom of England , not only Scotland 's traditional enemy , but already beginning the descent into the isolation which it was to maintain for much of the seventeenth century . |
| 25 | It was entirely unexpected , and its cause a mystery , so much so that poison was inevitably suspected . |
| 26 | So much so that , when the various category prizes were announced , he all but swept the board . |
| 27 | Albert Finney brings four-square authority to the part of Alfred , so much so that the audience is in danger of overlooking the subtleties of Stephen Moore 's performance as Michael — his plaintive vanity , the show of modest perplexity with which he explains that the situations in his plays just somehow turn out to have universal significance . |
| 28 | So much so that it has become a saw of pollsters and political commentators that ‘ election campaigns make no difference ’ . |
| 29 | Cricket lore was handed down from Yorkshire dad to lad , so much so that in the end the family history itself was the enemy . |
| 30 | In addition , the new regulations continued the pre-war advantages for university-provided liberal adult education which further weakened the relative position of the WEA so much so that the Ashby Committee reported that university income for adult education had exceeded £550,000 in 1951–52 in contrast to the WEA 's income of little more than £130,000 for that year . |