Example sentences of "so [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The male body was of little aesthetic interest to him , and the female was so mutable , so much a function of its own motion , or that of light across it , that all static representation seemed to him doomed from the outset . |
| 4 | It is not so much a question of what is promised as of the attitudes of those who will implement the decisions if the Tories are successful . |
| 5 | His expression had n't changed , but suddenly she saw an underlying loss and sadness , so much a part of him that it was easy to miss — but once seen , not easy to overlook again . |
| 6 | It has become so much a part of them that they are often unaware of its existence . |
| 7 | He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | In addition , our use of our mother tongue is often so automatic and habitual , and so much a part of our individual and social identity , that help is needed to stand back and reflect on aspects of language with some degree of objectivity . |
| 12 | These characters have become so much a part of our own childhood that we almost forget their origin . |
| 13 | Someone who is so much a part of you that if you were separated you 'd no longer feel whole . ’ |
| 14 | He did not enjoy it as he had the fishing that had been so much a part of his life on La Blanquilla . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | To claim money as a major human goal is not to make any specific claim about ‘ human nature ’ ( such as its mercenariness ) since it is not so much a goal in itself but the facilitator of almost all possible human goals — expressive , artistic , acquisitive or whatever . |
| 17 | But from my own researches it became plain to me that she was very much a person of her times , as compared with Beatrice Webb who became so much a critic of her times . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Second mortgage Usually not so much a loan in itself as using the value of a home ( over and above the value of any company loan ) , usually large and now mainly for home improvements , for up to , say , seven years ; with fixed monthly repayments . |
| 20 | ( The collisions are messy , so only a fraction of their energy goes into producing massive new particles . ) |
| 21 | As for my eidetic happenings , I found them suspect as well ; they were so clearly a product of my own fervid visual imagination . |