Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not the face , or the manner which struck Wilson most so much as the lithesome body . |
| 2 | He qualified at Bletchley by knocking down Hove 's Justin Murphy twice in the first round , forcing him to hold on so much that the referee disqualified the Southerner . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Where through traffic can be diverted from ‘ environmental areas ’ to distributor roads already so busy that the additional vehicles go unnoticed , this approach can clearly produce net benefits . |
| 5 | The ride followed by Marian and Allen , although not so broad as the main Highway , was lighter because the trees that flanked it , being for the most part giant oaks , had quelled the subordinate vegetation and left airy vistas between their trunks . |
| 6 | Nunzia peeled herself an orange , paring the skin close to the flesh so the padded white endodermis was stripped from the juicy red-flecked flesh , and yet not so close that the fruit spurted juice . |
| 7 | Admittedly , in recent years , top coaches such as ‘ Chalkie ’ White at Leicester and Alan Davies at Nottingham has provided a focus and created a centre of excellence which has attracted players but I am not so sure that the same parameters still apply . |
| 8 | However , in the world of Orwell 's 1984 there may be people who although sure that the events abolished by official historiography did happen , are not so sure that the experiences treasured in memory keep the value which official propaganda degrades ; they might be happier for the assurance that , in the sense that it remains true that an event happened even if universally forgotten an experience remains good even if in universally shrinking awareness there will never again be anyone capable of appreciating it . |
| 9 | ‘ It is a matter for the members of the Orange Order if they wish to build a monument but I am not so sure if the ratepayers of Belfast should be asked to foot the bill , ’ she said . |
| 10 | The symbol of race , however , was not so unambiguous as the symbol of communism . |
| 11 | It is , obviously , deeper than the light trance , but not so deep that the patient will not be aware of what is going on around him . |
| 12 | ‘ Not so good if the wife decides to drop in , ’ McLeish offered , with interest . |
| 13 | Although this is not so good as the quick sponge or madeira cake for cutting and shaping , it is ideal for the simpler shaped fantasy cakes and its advantage over the quick sponge is that it is lighter . |
| 14 | It is not so much that the culture of masculine honour is a sublimation of homosexuality , ; rather masculine honour repeatedly incites what , heterosexually , it presupposes but can not admit . |
| 15 | The issue is not so much that the LDDC was unwilling to effect democratic procedures with elected authorities in the early to mid-1980s , but rather ( as is discussed below ) that the policies proposed by the LDDC were different from those agreed by local government , and that co-operation would simply have proved impossible . |
| 16 | In general , though , it was not so much that the Radburn approach was questioned , but more perhaps that the densities at which it was increasingly being applied were inappropriate . |
| 17 | We can say that the problem being defined here is not so much that the pupils are getting the wrong education ( though they might be getting the wrong teachers ) as that industry is getting the wrong pupils ! |
| 18 | Indeed , it is not so much that the invading spirit is definitively exorcized from its human host , as that the host learns to live with her familiar who may make his presence felt whenever his mistress is in difficulties . |
| 19 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 20 | It is not so much that the Conservatives have deliberately introduced racist policies as that they have ignored the harmful impact of their policies on ethnic minorities . |
| 21 | It is not so much that the stuff itself is pink ( the stuff itself is chartreuse , as a matter of fact ) but that everything connected with it and surrounding it is : its packaging , its bottle-top , the invitations and programmes for its launch at the Opéra-Comique — its vie , if you like , is en rose . |
| 22 | Psalm 104:30 : ‘ When thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created , and thou renewest the face of the ground ’ refers to the animal creation , and may mean not so much that the Spirit created them , but , as in Genesis 2:7 , that God breathes his life into the already moulded form of animals and man . |
| 23 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 24 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 25 | It was not so much that the match was any more frantic or violent than usual , but rather that there were in evidence throughout the afternoon , a lot of faces quick to register those expressions which used to be peculiar to spoiled infants whose worn-out parents had cracked and dared to cross their wills . |
| 26 | I think really what happens when you go into the past is not so much that the laws that we now use change , but we just find that there are many more new rules and particles and things that can happen , so the things that we know are the same , but there are many , many more different types of interaction and particle in nature which we have no experience of , which we have to take into account . |
| 27 | But not so much as the readers and staff of Gandalf 's Garden . |
| 28 | This occurs not so much because the engineers are callous , but because of a blinkered approach by all parties . |
| 29 | It 's not so much because the Royal Family is out there , but because you are in front of so many of your peers . |
| 30 | These procedures can detect the disease , but they are not so accurate as the macroscopic study of a surgical specimen in determining the pattern and extension of the tumour . |