Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] [adv] so " in BNC.
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| 1 | The credit for securing this freedom belongs not so much to the legislators ( many of whom now profess themselves appalled at developments ) but to a few courageous publishers who risked jail by inviting juries to take a stand against censorship , and to the ineptitude and corruption of police enforcement . |
| 2 | Yin and yang ; animus and anima ; the pairing turns up so often , not surprisingly it is sometimes taken for a universal principle of human thought and categorisation . |
| 3 | But though Athens ' diplomatic interest in the west goes back so early , it seems that Syracuse 's aims of conquest long preceded and are independent of any serious commitment of men or money by Athens . |
| 4 | But the major problem with the curriculum has not so much been lack of vision or aims , as a failure to translate aims in a clear and logical way into a curriculum to achieve them . |
| 5 | Normally , the ingenuity which requires protection is in the circuitry represented by the patterns formed by the conducting materials , but the regulations are wider in the sense that they will apply in situations where the ingenuity lies not so much in the horizontal patterns themselves but in the vertical arrangement of layers . |
| 6 | Once dormant , however , their metabolism slows down so much that the pineal is virtually switched off , and how they manage to rouse themselves at the correct time remains a mystery . |
| 7 | A hibernator 's metabolism slows down so much when it becomes dormant that time appears to speed by and the winter is over in a trice . |
| 8 | The ten-year programme represents not so much a strategy for growth ; it is more a guess at the government 's ability to rein in the booming provinces of the southern coast and the Yangtze delta . |
| 9 | The young horse goes through so many learning experiences with us — the discipline of being held still in our arms as a foal , acceptance of being stroked all over and having its legs picked up , learning to lead and to be tied up , and later learning to accept being rugged and lunged . |
| 10 | Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ? |
| 11 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 12 | that this conference congratulates our Bolshevik comrades of Russia on their splendid efforts to bring about a general peace , and their unflinching opposition to the brigands of international capital , though we deplore the fact that their efforts to stir the workers of all the belligerents to revolutionary action has not so far met with success , yet we promise to do all in our power to awaken the proletariat of this country to class consciousness so that a speedy end may overtake the tyranny of capital . |
| 13 | From this perspective , the remedy lies not so much in providing personal help as in attempting to reconcile the activities of women and the values of society more effectively . |
| 14 | Investment occurs in so wide a variety of assets and sectors that it must be disaggregated substantially if any close statistical fit is to be found . |
| 15 | However , if the rattle slips down so far that it is no longer visible , the infant will at once lose interest and behave as if the rattle had also slipped out of existence . |
| 16 | The return of rock means not so much a crashdown as a return towards rock , a departure from planet pop to a self-sufficiency that matches pop . |
| 17 | Water resistance : little resistance to persistent rain but the fabric dries out so quickly after shows that it 's often not worth the bother of getting out your overtrousers . |
| 18 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 19 | It is unfortunate that the talk comes quite so soon after Christmas , but I hope all members living locally will make every effort to come and I know that they will be glad they did . |
| 20 | As the heart speeds up so does the rate of intake of oxygen to supply the blood |
| 21 | Waiting in a traffic jam the engine turns over so silently Dominique has to rev to make sure the car has n't stalled . |
| 22 | The second contrasting sceptic offers not so much an argument or a question but rather an attitude . |
| 23 | In ‘ The Sunday Morning Fuddle ’ the insufferably sentimental parlour ballad ‘ Before the Bells Did Ring ’ is given new words which turn it into a comic epic about Sunday morning boozing , in which the hero ends up so ‘ fuddled ’ he is arrested ( Ex. 1.10 ) . |
| 24 | Because our winter closes in so sharply , whatever we sow for overwintering must go in earlier , and that means August . |
| 25 | Perhaps it 's because the sport seems ironically so urban that I find it less than thrilling . |
| 26 | Rather one must teach criminal law jurisprudentially and the circumstance that criminal law throws up so much grist for the jurisprudential mill fits it rather well for the role of an introductory course . |
| 27 | It 's not often that sponsorship pays off so handsomely , and Pick-popper Sanderson Electronics Plc must be feeling pretty pleased with itself , getting to both cup finals : its local team , Sheffield Wednesday , whose players bear the Sanderson name on their breasts , will be contesting the League Cup this weekend and the FA Cup in May — against Arsenal on both occasions . |
| 28 | First , just two appear at the front end as distinct blocks of tissue and then , about each hour , another pair are added behind them and a wave of formation proceeds backwards so that at the end of a few days there are 46 somites . |
| 29 | Titian has written over their heads Ex Praeterito Praesens Prudenter Agit Ni Futura Actione Deturpit ( ‘ From the [ example of ] the past the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future ’ ) . |
| 30 | This view of assessment concentrates not so much on end of unit tests nor results in an external exam ( such as in former S.C.E. ‘ O ’ Grades ) , but on assessment as an on-going and integral part of the learning and teaching process . |