Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] so [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Edward Thomas may not have known that he was also making an ecological point when he pinned down so precisely the atmosphere and feel of these places : |
| 2 | Ultimately , this poem may demonstrate not so much the frailty of Leapor 's beliefs , as the importance of Bridget Freemantle as her implied reader . |
| 3 | ‘ I would like ’ , he said , ‘ to meet not so much the Viceroy as the man in you . ’ |
| 4 | For example , it is arguable that the qualitative change which engendered an environmental movement in the early 1960s involved not so much the presence of environmental destruction as the fact that the new forms of pollution and disruption became much more difficult , if not impossible , to avoid . |
| 5 | At the moment publishers fear not so much the literary efforts of retiring politicians but those of MPs who have lost their seats . |
| 6 | Heavy industry produced not so much the industrial region as such as the company town , in which the fate of men and women depended on the fortunes and goodwill of a single master , behind whom stood the force of law and state power , which regarded his authority as necessary and beneficial . |
| 7 | For more than an hour , rockets exploded across the sky — an extravaganza that for many Peking residents recalled not so much the glory of the revolution as the tracer bullets and machine-gun fire of early June . |
| 8 | The All Blacks won a sterner Third Test against the World side , almost went base-over-apex in the First Test against Ireland , then came back so powerfully the Second Test was a 59–6 mis-match . |
| 9 | On the contrary , few aspects of the social sciences show quite so clearly the importance of value in explanation as the capacity of social science theories , whether middle range or general , to return in modified guises after apparently destructive attack . |
| 10 | And and it was like a tin ladle which I can remember ever so well the tin ladle . |
| 11 | However , in my opinion , the best parts of it are those which present not so much the strictly emotivist thesis as a more general attitudinist thesis which is more convincing when detached from the former . |
| 12 | It was getting late so then the friend went home |
| 13 | If you can do this after an informal interview or visit then so much the better . |
| 14 | Karen could n't believe I got back so quickly the other day . |
| 15 | But it is undoubtedly dangerous and often cruel , stirring not so much the boxers but the crowds who watch them to a pitch of savagery quite incompatible with the notion that boxing is ‘ the noble art of self-defence ’ . |
| 16 | Others have chosen to describe not so much the sound , as the use — to harangue , to interrupt , to hold the floor , to declaim . |
| 17 | Let it heat through so neither the cabbage nor the pineapple lose their bite . |
| 18 | ‘ She was on edge , talking not so much the hind leg off a donkey as off an African elephant . |
| 19 | A letter of 1871 gives a vivid sense of the convictions which impelled her throughout her life : ‘ As I have grown older the terrible sufferings of women of my own class for want of good elementary training have more than ever intensified my earnest desire to lighten ever so little the misery of women brought up ‘ to be married and taken care of ’ and left alone in the world destitute . |
| 20 | The bicycle was a powerful symbol of social change in this era , summing up so easily the fears brewing around popular freedoms and popular amusements , and it seemed to touch a brittle nerve of the process of democratisation . |
| 21 | She jacked out so quickly the tutor 's office swam around her before she knew what it was . |