Example sentences of "[verb] so [adj] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It had got rid of this , the old order and new power relations had been established and so it should n't be regarded so much as an economic failure but as a profound political and social reform , which is an important step towards the Party 's ultimate aim of communism , and going back to the beginning of my paper that how that they had always seen industrialization as a means to an end and that how that socialism and ultimately communism could only be achieved through stages and so that , although it was an economic failure , it was a sort of a social |
| 2 | When this process was repeated several times the particles of the starting material became so small that the total surface area available for reaction was very great . |
| 3 | But the winds became so fierce that the whole forest shook . |
| 4 | But A Rapid Course is not intended so much as an elementary textbook in economics as ‘ a graded series of readings and exercises designed to prepare a student studying economics in the English language . ’ |
| 5 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 6 | This system was proving so unsatisfactory that the National Trust had declared it would take no further houses unless endowments could be provided . |
| 7 | I have even managed to persist so long that the final work on an article was dealt with by the third editor , but that owed something to my delays as well . |
| 8 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 9 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 10 | Cabinet under Mrs Thatcher is ‘ not used so much as a formal forum where there are papers saying we have this problem and here are the options for what we can do about it . |
| 11 | The risk of injury might become so great that the timid fighters , which never get hurt because they always run away first , might then be at an advantage . |
| 12 | Musically this is very nearly correct , but not one recording includes so much as a single word of Gilbert 's spoken dialogue . |
| 13 | I never heard so much as a malicious word or imputation . |
| 14 | " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " . |
| 15 | His leg swung so close that the smooth black cloth brushed against her breast , setting the nerve-endings tantalisingly on edge . |
| 16 | There appears to be little evidence that as a society we have become so rich that a substantial number of people are at this point . |
| 17 | In the twenty-first dynasty the situation in Egypt had become so unstable that the Theban priests became seriously concerned about their royal charges . |
| 18 | In local authority work today committee work has become so important that a great measure of power is given to committees . |
| 19 | When she had telephoned Robert about breakfast-time , asking to see him about an important matter , he had seemed so astonished that the only place he had been able to suggest was here . |
| 20 | It 's just that we feel the human body can take so much and the English season is a long and punishing one as it it . |
| 21 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 22 | In 1798 , General Humbert of France came over and won a battle near there , but he took so long that the nearby towns had time to refortify . |
| 23 | It has been known for Goblins to get so ambitious that the entire catapult springs from its mounts and hits the Goblin splat in the face , putting paid to the whole device . |
| 24 | Waterers Landscaping became involved in the project in September and proved so popular that the original £150,000 contract grew and grew . |
| 25 | The sand proved so soft that the overloaded lorries repeatedly bogged down . |
| 26 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 27 | A.agassizii is even more peaceful than most — I have two males and a female occupying an 18″ breeding tank without the non-dominant male showing so much as a frayed fin . |
| 28 | It did not seem so cute after a massive explosion ripped apart the pilot plant ( ironically as it was being shut down for the last time ) and killed two of Dequasie 's colleagues . |
| 29 | Eventually , when the star has shrunk to a certain critical radius , the gravitational field at the surface becomes so strong that the light cones are bent inward so much that light can no longer escape ( Fig. 6.1 ) . |