Example sentences of "so [adv] a [noun sg] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Clare testifies to the wholesale obliteration of landmarks , and the subsequent consciousness of alienation ; The Female Vagrant is not so much a poem by Wordsworth as a case-history . |
| 2 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 3 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 4 | His treatment of the " Alliterative Revival " is in some ways reminiscent of earlier treatments which argue that later alliterative writing in English reflects not so much a continuation of OE principles ( which language-change would in any case have made unlikely ) , but a re-invention from a tradition of alliterative prose-writing which began with AElfric . |
| 5 | This island seems overrun with small black pigs ( animals so much a part of Tongan life that when Captain Cook presented a pair of hitherto unknown Guernsey cows to the King they were classified as ‘ Cook 's pigs ’ , and the name has stuck for cows ever since ) , and with Australian cruising ‘ yachties ’ who use the Niuas ( as Schouten and LeMaire once did ) as the formal port of entry to the kingdom . |
| 6 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Both these lights are operative in the writings of the mystics as means by which man sees his own true nature and in doing so also a reflection of God ; it is a state in which they feel themselves to be most fully alive . |
| 9 | So far a quarter of Britain 's 27 000 schools for the under-11s have taken up the offer of cut-price computers and training material . |
| 10 | Doctors are working hard , but so far a cure for HIV and AIDS has not been found . |
| 11 | 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 . |