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

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1 So much so that we took out insurance er if it went over twenty percent we were covered .
2 This motif was used on the air every day and we rang all possible changes on the ‘ we 're being done in by the big bogey-man ’ theme , so much so that we had some of our faithful old lady listeners actually in tears .
3 Coordination and balance will be severely affected so much so that we hold ourselves rigid in order to avoid falling over .
4 Our yachts are well maintained , so much so that we offer generous guarantees of compensation if rare failure immobilises you for a day .
5 ‘ It 's just like a piano and so much so that we have n't even got one at home and I did n't practice on one before the competition I can just switch to playing it instead of a piano , ’ said Lisa .
6 The newspaper became embarrassed ; so much so that they ran a follow-up feature called ‘ Lest We Forget ’ .
7 Her parents remained adamant , so much so that they consulted Granny Patin concerning the wording on their daughter 's tombstone .
8 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 .
9 Those values and that conception of society have permeated the American consciousness , so much so that they have largely gone unstated .
10 She was all but out of the door on her way to Oxford Street when , incredibly , she found herself shaking , so much so that she went back into the tiny bedroom and lay down .
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 At school , compensating , she had worked and worked and worked , so much so that she had finally made the two A's and a B necessary for medicine in her A levels .
13 And as they come , as Naomi comes back to the place where she went astray so God starts to bless , so much so that she does n't know whether she 's standing or sitting !
14 ‘ So much so that she told the entire matinée audience of a Noel Coward play !
15 Outside , running the water into the misshapen saucepan , Sally-Anne found the stench indescribable , so much so that she began a desperate burst of coughing to prevent herself from vomiting .
16 She needed a little experience here in the provinces first , of course , just enough to give her finesse and confidence , not too much so that she became jaded , and then …
17 She was very relieved , so much so that she felt weak .
18 The extreme cruelty of his words threw her totally off balance , so much so that she lost all colour , as , half dizzy , she turned away to hide her shock .
19 Mrs J. was a dominant person , so much so that she ended up in hospital suffering from malnutrition , as she had refused to eat .
20 So much so that she remembers trying to wriggle her face away from it without success .
21 So much so that she decided to call the police and give them my registration number , just in case I made a habit of kerb-crawling .
22 At times the loneliness of her position has brought her to the edge of despair , so much so that she has made a number of suicide attempts , some more half-hearted than others .
23 That 's why sprinters when they cross the line very often collapse many of them , because they 've used up their oxygen so much so that there 's not got enough and their brain switches off momentarily and they collapse .
24 Sun Microsystems Inc , as reported ( CI No 2,118 ) has formed a new software subsidiary that is noticeably more distant from itself than its orbiting planets , so much so that it does not even rate a Sun tag .
25 This was a mood that did not last ; the secular spirit is natural , it is more than ever clear , to modern industrial states — so much so that it invades even the clergy .
26 So much so that it inspired Sophie to give several children 's classes in Norwich .
27 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 .
28 So much so that it has become a saw of pollsters and political commentators that ‘ election campaigns make no difference ’ .
29 Human language is much more powerful — so much so that it has been suggested that the ability to speak is what really distinguishes people from animals .
30 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 .
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