Sentence examples for document so much from inspiring English sources

Gina Clayton Chair, South Yorkshire Refugee Law and Justice Magna Carta was not an English document so much as a European one, debated in Norman French, written in Latin and informed by precursors from the continent as much as England (The idea of the Magna Carta is mainly myth, Editorial, 13 July).

There is a reason this document excites so much passion.

Two 30-something men looked crestfallen recently at the sight of so many documents and so much high-minded art.

Without a county salary or the ability to practice law in the state, he was unemployed and under financial stress, the documents state, so much so that the couple had tried to sell some of their old wedding gifts, including china and silverware, at a garage sale a few months ago.

Claimants need these documents because so much of the securities business is done behind the proverbial curtain.

But a few of the documents have so much news value that we think it's appropriate to publish them.

As it is, though, this muddled collage of random impressions and personal histories, emerging from last year's destruction of the Tohoku coastline by the earthquake and tsunami, doesn't document a tragedy so much as repeat a mantra.

It's not that Piranesi, an architect, couldn't do the maths: he wasn't trying to document the remains so much as translate them into a grand melancholic view.

Faced with a monumentally corrupt – and yet popularly elected – government, Indians are conflicted about whether to turn to the bulwark of their founding document constructed with so much effort by Mr. Ambedkar, or follow the new figure of Anna who reminds them in flashes of their greatest leader ever, Mahatma Gandhi.

Although this document was not so much a constitution in the sense of a blueprint for government and political organization as a set of maxims meant to serve as standards for political society, it is clearly influenced by Confucianism throughout.

QUESTION FROM DAVID P: What's your take on the claim that the Afghanistan documents are just so much raw, unedited junk?