Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] be so [det] " in BNC.

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1 The overall shift has not been so much from agriculture to manufacturing but rather a steady rise in the service industries , and a fall in primary industries .
2 THERE has not been so much breast-beating in the cinema since Bernadette .
3 This is largely because there has always been so much more speculation than information about the personal stability of Perry Farrell .
4 Perhaps it has really been so much hot air .
5 The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost .
6 Experts say there has never been so much free time available to so many people .
7 Setting off for home on the bus has never been so much fun for the children of Grange Junior School in Swindon .
8 In the event it had not been so much religious ‘ discrimination ’ as the limits imposed by lack of money and of land in over-built ancient towns and villages .
9 There had n't been so much of that though the last few years .
10 See th history of the union is I mean er but er you know it 's a it 's a process is n't it in in a way the management have are probably really kicking themselves now for what 's happened you know I mean , their li latest statement is er , Well if there had n't been so much ou outside interference I 'm sure we 'd have been able to settle .
11 There had never been so much ‘ In Years Gone By ’ copy set , or so much waiting to be set .
12 I have n't been so much involved in it as perhaps some other people and I do n't pretend to be an expert .
13 Public tastes and current architecture have never been so much at odds .
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