Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was obviously so happy and content in himself and his vocation that he had no real worry about being himself — even in the pulpit . |
| 2 | An attitude of fatalism may be seen in typical phrases from traditional low-income black American subculture such as ‘ I 've been down so long that down do n't bother me ’ , ‘ I was born under a bad sign ’ and ‘ It 's an uphill climb to the bottom ’ . |
| 3 | Probably the most decisive argument for the free personal social services is that most of their recipients are already so poor that charges bring little revenue . |
| 4 | The Three Valleys are bound to be in there too , with Charlotte 's vote probably going to Meribel because it 's in the central valley of the three and not what is invariably described as a concrete jungle ; Val d'Isere because the skiing is just so brill and Tignes is , well , a concrete jungle really . |
| 5 | ‘ Children are not so serious as grown-ups and they love to laugh . ’ |
| 6 | But she was not so sure that Rab was right . |
| 7 | He 's not so sure that ideas can make the difference between the two . |
| 8 | The ‘ teacher ’ was one of the younger army wives — not so classy as Mrs Goreng but not bad . |
| 9 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 10 | The chairs we have now were actually designed with our chat show in mind , not so low that knees come up to chins and reveal too much sock , nor so wide as to encourage fidgeting , with an upright back to prevent slouching , and arm rests to give the nervous something to grip . |
| 11 | Others were not so convinced that John Gould , ‘ a mere museum man ’ , was up to the challenge . |
| 12 | She is young but not so young as Chela , who says she is 18 but looks 16 at the most . |
| 13 | ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me . |
| 14 | I enjoyed all my years at Primary School although some events were not so good as others . |
| 15 | However , he said , even a cursory look at the figures showed that what really happened was not so much that Scotland had gained but the rest of the country was now becoming stuck in the kind of economic mess that Scotland had endured since 1979 . |
| 16 | The criterion for admission was not so much that traditions vindicated an apostolic authorship as that the content of the books was in line with the apostolic proclamation received by the second-century churches . |
| 17 | However , it is important to note that PNP provided the resources and framework for the considerable expansion and diversification of such courses between 1985 and 1990 : it was not so much that PNP was submerged as that PNP and primary provision became synonymous . |
| 18 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 19 | The main significance claimed for the market for corporate control as an efficiency- inducing device is not so much that companies are actually taken-over and inadequate managements displaced , though of course this does happen and is regarded as a valuable effect of the mechanism , but that incumbent managements fear take-over and hence will do all they can to make the company efficient and the share price correspondingly high . |
| 20 | Perhaps it is not so much that police behaviour has deteriorated as that public expectations have risen . |
| 21 | Each one had to be made to feel that they were noticed , for as Eugénie said , it is not so much that Princes are surrounded by flatterers as that they themselves must be ever ready to flatter others : |
| 22 | The selection of documents to be saved for posterity is as essential as it has been for the last 30 years ; it is not so much that computers can not store everything ( storage capacities are continuing to develop exponentially ) , as the consideration that to conserve everything makes the past unmanageable and impenetrable . |
| 23 | For these reasons it seems that it is not so much that people are making more of a fuss about bereavement these days but rather that the traditional ways of coping with it are not readily available , so that alternative ways of supporting people have to be found . |
| 24 | The real danger facing Russia is not so much that Mr Yeltsin will lose the constitutional war . |
| 25 | Maybe it is for myself I mind , rather than for him ! 'T IS not so much that Richard is bound for sanctuary — as that I am denied such privilege . |
| 26 | It can thus be seen that both in this chapter and in the closely related one on adult education which follows , the Report addresses English professors and teaching staff not so much as professionals but as responsible public figures ; as socially concerned part-time and even voluntary preachers functioning to disseminate a national culture . |
| 27 | But there are places where the residents are seen not so much as customers but as ‘ them ’ . |
| 28 | The later , more sophisticated theories tended to view the question of salvation not so much as God winning back the world from the Evil One and reconciling humanity in himself , but in terms of a legal arrangement entered into by God and man because of the perfect death of the sacrificial Lamb : God the lawgiver lets off sinners , as it were , because of Christ 's substitution . |
| 29 | Er she had but not so much as father . |
| 30 | The answer is that it does , and that the justifications for doing so have been set out above — not so much because rape is a serious offence , but rather because ascertainment of the facts is so easy that there should be little substantive unfairness to defendants . |