Example sentences of "so much [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , in the first place , a world not so much consisting of factories , employers and proletarians as one transformed by the enormous progress of its industrial sector . |
| 2 | These papers were not so much creating a new market as servicing an established public interest . |
| 3 | Adding to the ‘ are they or are n't they ’ downsizing dispute , Hewlett-Packard Co 's UK marketing manager , Nick Earle , claims users are not so much ditching their mainframes wholesale as running core applications on mainframes and installing others on mid-range systems . |
| 4 | Johnston and Pattie ( 1988 ) claim that people no longer vote so much according to their class , or social , position , but rather are increasingly referrent to their spatial location . |
| 5 | Not since I saw Talking Heads doing Yardbirds covers here in 1976 ( This is Earth CBGB 's ? — Ed ) have I enjoyed myself so much watching guitars being played . |
| 6 | Bentham was also clear what the Panopticon would mean for those who had to occupy it , subjected as they would be to " … an authority so much exceeding anything that has hitherto signified as despotic " ( Works , IV p 63 , emphasis in original ) . |
| 7 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 8 | With so much riding on their personal success , they can feel under considerable pressure to aim for the top . |
| 9 | ‘ I just think it 's great to play in big game with so much riding on it , ’ he said . |
| 10 | In suggesting that the idea of higher education is hinged on self-criticism , I am not so much developing a personal concept of higher education , therefore , as drawing to the surface our common ( though largely hidden ) understanding of higher education . |
| 11 | In dividing behaviour into inherited and learned , he was not so much trying to explain how behaviour develops as how it comes to be adapted . |
| 12 | Meanwhile Jackson himself , a gangly six foot four , with a hairline not so much receding as speeding flat out towards his neck , was easily slotted in with the other unlikely pop stars , taking their surly revenge on the conventional way of doing things . |
| 13 | To them , the danger is not so much receding as increasing : but that is because their definition of what constitutes danger is very different from ours . |
| 14 | Advocates of each conception of contracts have failed to recognize that they may not be so much disagreeing as attempting to answer different questions . |
| 15 | My problem in Dalmellington was not so much getting a drink , but in actually devising a means of drinking it . |
| 16 | In her case , perhaps , it was not so much leaving a group that hurt as leaving a stage . |
| 17 | with so much spilling |
| 18 | ‘ It 's hard to see someone you love so much fading . |
| 19 | With old people , the physical condition has so much bearing on the mental state . |
| 20 | Yes , the copying music , what I 'm asking for is not so much copying there , ag it 's it 's the old friend transposition , well it 's partly copying , but it 's mainly transposition of erm horn , trumpet and clarinet parts |
| 21 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 22 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 23 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 24 | We 're not so much looking to Wembley . |
| 25 | She wondered if she would have let herself get involved had she known in advance that it entailed so much messing with entrails . |
| 26 | Well I think Yeah we could put it up to three a day we 'll got cos there is n't quite so much messing about you know . |
| 27 | At the recent JANE 'S ADDICTION gig at The Marquee , people were not so much holding onto their ears as trying to stop their eyeballs standing out on stalks , so plenteous were the glittering celebs out to cheer the visiting Americans on . |
| 28 | The great challenge is not so much describing the physiological and anatomical properties of the cells in these streams but understanding their functional significance . |
| 29 | There had never been so much ‘ In Years Gone By ’ copy set , or so much waiting to be set . |
| 30 | It seems likely that the Settlement Laws were not so much preventing migration as inhibiting distance . |