Example sentences of "is [adv] so [adj] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There has been much ’ , he continued , ‘ which has implicitly or otherwise criticized — it is not so strong a word — criticized the foreign policy of my country . ’ |
| 2 | the Antichrist is not so much a person as a principle . |
| 3 | It is not so drastic a solution as our first all-in-the-mind theory which attributes to the wavefunction a significance purely in terms of human knowledge , for this third view takes the external world much more seriously as the origin of the chain of correlated consequence . |
| 4 | Much of this picture has been surmised from the pioneering excavation of Old Hangleton by Mr Holden : surprisingly , given the common image of medieval squalor , there was none of the rubbish which is usually so rich a ground for archaeologists . |
| 5 | That is why so small a group of internationally powerful banks are repeatedly chosen as lead managers . |