Example sentences of "[be] so [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the work of Bottomley and Coleman ( 1981 ) criminal statistics are so much a function of highly variable administrative practices that they seem almost incapable of telling us anything about anything . |
| 2 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 3 | Once more , such a situation is not necessarily incestuous but since love and sexual partnership are so often a matter of emotional dependence it is often hard to differentiate it from a quasi-marital partnership . |
| 4 | He did not enjoy it as he had the fishing that had been so much a part of his life on La Blanquilla . |
| 5 | ‘ The Nightingale ’ provides a record of one of the evening walks shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths which had been so much a part of their lives together . |
| 6 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 7 | Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her . |
| 8 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 9 | Thus , it has been suggested that ‘ [ s ] hort-termism may not be so much a product of the mispricing of assets , … but more a reflection of contractual failures in securities markets in part brought on by the takeover process . |
| 10 | Those activities were so evidently a waste of spirit that Louisa had never understood how men were so easily lured by them . |
| 11 | As for my eidetic happenings , I found them suspect as well ; they were so clearly a product of my own fervid visual imagination . |
| 12 | Street-fighting and village brawls at football matches were so much a part of ‘ traditional ’ society that we tend to forget how relatively civilized modern social life has become . |
| 13 | It may be hard to reconcile the ideals of chivalry at Edward 's court with the burning , looting and killing which were so much a part of the campaigns the nobles fought in France , and difficult to argue that the idea of chivalry had any substantially mitigating effect on the horrors of war . |
| 14 | The lulling cushion of blood-heat saline solution I floated on did help me to neglect those bodily fears that were so much a part of me . |
| 15 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 16 | People thronged in the several outdoor cafés , while others sat in groups on the paving stones , enjoying the music , cans of Coke at their feet , slices of smørrebrød in their hands , while neatly stacked against the railings of the old houses with their terracotta- and gamboge-painted façades were the ubiquitous bicycles which were so much a part of the Danish travel scene . |
| 17 | A dull , cold , rainy day does not literally mean ‘ sadness ’ — it is possible to be happy on such a day — but it is so obviously a metaphor for sadness that when it appears in writing it has become a cliché , intended to trigger a predictable response . |
| 18 | The human element which is so much a part of the informal approach must be standardized if a team is to operate as a unit . |
| 19 | In 22 the Poet is so much a part of the Friend that he can not age , himself , ‘ So long as youth and thou are of one date ’ . |
| 20 | Brushing your teeth is so much a part of daily routine that it is sometimes easy to forget the importance of doing it properly . |
| 21 | And the word ‘ Glory ’ in verse 21 is so much a part of the language of our worship that it easy to overlook the significance of the phrase that Paul uses there . |
| 22 | Someone who is so much a part of you that if you were separated you 'd no longer feel whole . ’ |
| 23 | It is another pointer to that ambiguity which is so much a characteristic of his life and work , in which the essential orderliness and formal morality of his upbringing clash with his more libertarian — and sometimes libertine — impulses and imagination . |
| 24 | Even the most casual visitor can not fail to notice the quality of homesteads , the increased personal incomes , the efficiency and comfort of transport systems and the pride in culture and heritage , which is so often a reflection of economic security . |
| 25 | She looked the sort of girl who is so often a trademark of California — a girl who could dance all night , yet play tennis or golf , ride or swim the next day without the slightest effort . |
| 26 | You do n't need to be a programmer ; there 's no code to write , and you do n't even have to adopt the programmer 's mindset that is so often a prerequisite for building advanced database applications . |
| 27 | This concern is so often a feature of social service intervention ( O'Hagan , 1986 ) . |
| 28 | Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ? |
| 29 | She started to say that to her this sounded more like Khrushchev , and she stopped herself again ; the line was so clearly a proffering of comfort . |
| 30 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |