Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] [adv] so [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Why is it that a cup of tea goes down so well ? |
| 6 | Labour has not so much won the battle of ideas as deserted the field . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It is worth speculating on whether , from the locals ' point of view , the proliferation of village organizations reflects not so much a flourishing of community life as a symbol of its downfall . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | But the relief of the husband from the obligation of maintenance continues only so long as she voluntarily remains absent . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Waiting in a traffic jam the engine turns over so silently Dominique has to rev to make sure the car has n't stalled . |
| 16 | The second contrasting sceptic offers not so much an argument or a question but rather an attitude . |
| 17 | Because our winter closes in so sharply , whatever we sow for overwintering must go in earlier , and that means August . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The figure recedes , the circle dims , the piano plays softly so far away … |
| 20 | Incompatible therefore though a Co-operative sector would be with the Webbs ' version of the fully Socialist economy , the incompatibility has not so far become obtrusive in the United Kingdom because Labour Governments , which incidentally have had the support of the Co-operative Party as the political arm of the Co-operative Consumer Movement , have carried western Socialist Empiricism to the point of settling for the mixed economy ; and any central planning has been indicative — and , some would say , ineffectual — rather than mandatory . |
| 21 | It is my impression that the Department of Transport has not so far been sympathetic to the potential plight of some of the preserved railways in Scotland . |
| 22 | Marshall has n't so much tampered with Aotearoa education as launched a phalanx of studies and reviews which are now landing with thuds . |
| 23 | Bowe poses not so much a riddle as two straightforward questions : Does he have the heart , stamina and experience to match Holyfield 's over 12 rounds ? |
| 24 | As Nawal El Saadawi points out so clearly in her report from Cairo , it was in fact George Bush 's insistence on the withdrawal of Iraqi troops from Kuwait which destroyed the very basis for negotiations . |
| 25 | Lucker sits down so heavily , the mattress buckles . |
| 26 | However , this relationship has not so far been sufficiently investigated to ensure that a given design will be stable in fast forward flight . |
| 27 | one 's hurting the other and the other hurts back so instead of maybe looking at one another , they just do n't work hard ! |
| 28 | With him art does not so much represent nature as human nature creates through art . |
| 29 | It is no coincidence that the Oddbins ' name comes up so often . |
| 30 | Even in the new Latin America , it seems , the commitment to free trade goes only so far . |