Example sentences of "so [det] [conj] [vb -s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 2 | I mean , there 's so much that goes on in prison that people do n't know about , which they should . |
| 3 | However , so much that needs to be done requires professional lobbying and political change , and I question whether a well-meaning group of amateurs can do much beyond counselling and sharing information . |
| 4 | Two arkie surveys have produced almost nothing , and yet Mr Coombs — an elderly man — has been threatened with jail if he so much as uproots a tree in his own garden . |
| 5 | ‘ If Sugar so much as points a finger in our direction , I 'll snap it off . ’ |
| 6 | But Summers , anxious to keep the former Argentinian international at The Hawthorns , is quoted as saying : ‘ If Sugar so much as points a finger in our direction , I 'll snap it off . |
| 7 | If he so much as bruises a finger without good reason , I 'll come for you . |
| 8 | If an ant , searching the twig for food , so much as touches the barrier of infertile eggs with its antennae , it recoils violently and may even lose its footing and fall . |
| 9 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 10 | That 's going to be hell on earth if you keep dissolving into a mushy heap every time he so much as looks at you . ’ |
| 11 | For reasons best known to the fuel companies , the Gulf crisis never turned into an oil crisis , although petrol prices generally leap up and down quicker than a Tory backbencher during a Neil Kinnock speech if a dealer on the Amsterdam spot market so much as sneezes over his computer screen . |
| 12 | In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities . |
| 13 | Anyone who so much as hints at a ‘ third way ’ between communism and capitalism is considered naive ; there is simply no time to try more experiments . |
| 14 | The Prayer Boat do n't write songs , so much as swells of piano and guitar which float the peculiar Mike Scott-like voice of Emmet Tinley . |
| 15 | She gives out so much and has so much to teach us . ’ |
| 16 | Even affable John , one of nature 's gentlemen , can only take so much and has now stopped being polite because when the police recognize him , as they do , they seem to take a particular delight in grilling someone famous . |
| 17 | Or the person who 's trying not to drink so much and beats themself up when they slip back and get drunk ! |