So-much-for Sentence Examples

To the transactions of various learned societies he contributed from first to last between three and four hundred papers, and few of his contemporaries wrote so much for the various reviews.

Thank you so much for helping, Jonathan.

Thank you so much for calling!

Who was Deidre to interfere in something that spanned so long and involved two people who cared so much for each other?

Thank you so much for taking me in and not throwing me out after what I told you.

Maybe Alex was simply burned out on raising children after giving up so much for Katie - only to have her run away.

I know you've done so much for me already, but I need to know.

Mill was earnestly opposed to the transfer, and the documents in which he substantiated the proud boast for the Company that "few governments, even under far more favourable circumstances, have attempted so much for the good of their subjects or carried so many of their attempts to a beneficial issue," and exposed the defects of the proposed new government, are models of trenchant and dignified pleading.

At the last he fought not so much for an idea as for the humiliation of an opponent by whom he had been ungenerously treated.

And not for them only; for in the school of York, founded by his pupil Archbishop Ecgberht, was trained Alcuin (Ealhwine) the initiator under Charles the Great of the Frankish schools, which did so much for learning on the continent.

Yet on the death of his king and patron in 1777, when court intrigue forced him from his high station, he who had done so much for his country's institutions was reviled on all hands.

His administration is notable, not so much for internal affairs but from the fact that he twice acted as arbitrator in disputes in which the Boer states were involved.

The two systems were nothing more as yet than two different ways of interpreting a phrase of Porphyry, and they remained unnoticed in the for nearly two centuries not so much for its dialectics S' and philosophy as for its humanistic culture.

The Franciscan friar Kacic, who did so much for the revival of popular poetry in Bosnia and Dalmatia in the mid-18th century, shows similar traces of Serbophil feeling, and the achievements of Dusan and other Serbian Tsars have bulked almost as largely in the modern literature of the Croats as of the Serbs themselves.

His chapter on the flea, in which he not only describes its structure, but traces out the whole history of its metamorphoses from its first emergence from the egg, is full of interest - not so much for the exactness of his observations, as for its incidental revelation of the extraordinary ignorance then prevalent in regard to the origin and propagation of "this minute and despised creature," which some asserted to be produced from sand, others from dust, others from the dung of pigeons, and others from urine, but which he showed to be "endowed with as great perfection in its kind as any large animal," and proved to breed in the regular way of winged insects.

Yet no other Danish king did so much for his country.

The Milanese sculptor, Ambrogio, who worked so much for Federigo, married a lady of Urbino, and was the progenitor of the Baroccio family, among whom were many able mathematicians and painters.

He worked for the good of the state because he thought his interests were bound up with those of the nation; and it was the real coincidence of this private and public point of view that made it possible for so selfish a man to achieve so much for his country.

On the other hand, a steady and increasing market was gained for the products of the British Empire, and in particular for those of India; the ports of the Gulf were made safe, not so much for the British as for the Indian trader; nearly 75% of the trade of the Gulf ports was in 1921 with India, and an even greater proportion in the hands of Indians, Persians and Arabs.

In 1821 Michael Faraday (1791-1867), who was destined later on to do so much for the science of electricity, discovered electromagnetic rotation, having succeeded in causing a wire conveying a voltaic current to rotate continuously round the pole of a permanent magnet.

Coke certainly stands out in a better light, not so much for his answer, which was rather indefinite, and the force of which is much weakened by his assent to the second question of the king, but for the general spirit of resistance to encroachment exhibited by him.

Doctrinally they stood not so much for a theology as for a refusal of theology, and, rejecting the practical liberalism of Paul, became the natural heirs of those early Judaizers who had caused the apostle so much annoyance and trouble.

No single African explorer has ever done so much for African geography as Livingstone during his thirty years' work.

The king was generally loathed, not so much for his viceswhich would have been, in this case as in others, condoned in a more popular monarchbut for the notorious meanness and selfishness of his character.

It is possible, and (not so much for any application thereof as in order to more fully establish the analogy between the two kinds of co-ordinates) important, to give independent quantitative definitions of the two kinds of co-ordinates; but we may also derive the notion of line-co-ordinates from that of point-coordinates; viz.

The avi-fauna is much richer than the mammalian, and, although wanting the 'largest birds as well as the most brilliantly coloured, comprises two hundred and sixty species, half of which are endemic. Many of the birds are remarkable not so much for their shape or colouring as for their distant relationships; many belong to peculiar genera, and some are so isolated that new families have had to be formed for their reception.

The mission of the worker-bee is work; not so much for itself as for the younger members of the community to which it belongs.

I just feel terrible that you are giving up so much for me.

Many thanks Karen bennett Thank you so much for a fantastic service.

She's written so much for the stage and screen that have so much pathos, which I find a very interesting angle.

In addition to these there is the history of St Sylvester and the conversion of Constantine, &c., all still in MS. The History of Barlaam and loasaf (see Barlaam And Josaphat) may also be mentioned here, for it appealed to the people not so much for its religious interest as for the romantic career of the hero.

Of course the vital heat is not to be confounded with fire; but so much for analogy.

Best regards, Ruth Hello Thank you so much for the oil blue fitted v-neck sweater which arrived today.

I just wanted to say thanks so much for the advice; I couldn't stop thinking about him all week and was kind of feeling down today but you guys made it so much better!!

Kevin Federline - Federline has turned out to be a knight in shining armor…for Sean and Jayden that is, not so much for Britney.

Thanks so much for your question, and I truly hope your puppy recovers.

Thank you so much for taking the time to read this.

It isn't so much for fans of the action genre as it is for fans of video games in general.

If wine was easy to make, commercial vitners wouldn't charge so much for a great bottle of wine.

Some who are interested in collectible books value them not so much for their literary significance and aesthetic appeal, but more so for their investment value.

Cost-burdened individuals and families who pay so much for housing often have difficulty providing for other necessities; food, clothing, and medical costs oftentimes cannot be adequately covered on such an income.

Thank you so much for all of the good times we've shared.