Example sentences of "so [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So perhaps a lot of the times but I would have maybe suggested that , that we could have done and presented that as part of the package . |
| 2 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The headlights — so much a feature of the E-type — will be rounded and unusual in design again , though details are sketchy . |
| 5 | These ways have become so much a part of the fabric of dance that they are used almost unknowingly by teachers and dancers . |
| 6 | The idea of ‘ theory ’ has now become so pervasive , so much a part of the terms of current debate , and so visibly incorporated into institutions , that I shall not resist using it . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | By 1945 , German ‘ solutions ’ in the east had become so much a part of the German view of the world and ‘ German historic destiny ’ that the Russians and the Poles , who had played human safety-valve to German ambition throughout their long joint histories , saw dismemberment of German territory in the east as the only possible long-term solution . |
| 9 | Even the presence of the very famous actor indeed who had undertaken the part of Macbeth was hardly noticed ; after all he was so much a part of the English scene as to be , very nearly , taken for granted , though his performance was , as always , brilliant . |
| 10 | What strange quirk of the heart made me feel so much a part of the life of this place ? |
| 11 | 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 ’ . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | That epicanthic fold over the eye , which seemed so much a part of the android 's ‘ difference ’ — its machine-nature — was here , on the natural man , quite attractive . |
| 14 | We then start to read the familiar stories of ward closures and idle operating theatres which have become so much a part of the New Year celebrations and which the reforms were supposed to eliminate . |
| 15 | These are directed to control conflict — though in fact they make it so much a part of the formal structure of the organisation that they tend to legitimise and even perpetuate it . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As usually happens , the ‘ sponsorship role ’ of the Electricity Division led to Murray becoming not so much a controller of the industry as an honest broker between the BEA and the Whitehall machine in general . |
| 20 | Hence the mink is not so much a threat to the muskrat population as a direct competitor with muskrat trappers . |
| 21 | There was n't so much a noise as a change in the type of silence . |
| 22 | The Bentley Turbo R is n't so much a hero as the entire cavalry . |
| 23 | The new competition is not so much a contest among the strong and the weak all obeying Queensberry rules ; it is now just as much a contest among competing strategies . |
| 24 | By the end of The Order of Things , however , he revises this somewhat conventional thesis to suggest that what was involved was not so much a move from a static to a historical view of things as the break-up of a common , unified historical time-scheme in which every phenomenon had had its place in the same space and chronology . |
| 25 | Helmut was going to transfer so much a month into a bank account for me and I could draw it out at an office in the Champs-Elysées . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He was n't so much a boyfriend as a boy who was one of my friends . ’ |
| 28 | He could not allow himself to fall in love with a girl so obviously a part of the world of wealth and consequence which he had abandoned . |
| 29 | As its rival has acquired new functions , the Home Office , so long a repository for a bewildering assortment of responsibilities , has been losing them . |
| 30 | Are there steps through which we can begin to learn again what was so clearly a part of the New Testament church 's experience ? |