Example sentences of "[vb -s] [adv] so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once Univel softens up the marketplace and the marketplace protests that it has only so much money and ca n't possibly buy both NetWare and UnixWare , poof , Univel is integrated back into Novell . |
| 2 | He has not so much brain as ear wax , ( Troilus and Cressida ) — to anyone slow on the uptake . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The crux of the debate , therefore , is not whether social service expenditure encourages consumption and hence economic growth but rather at what stage and under what economic conditions it uses up so much labour , capital and other resources that it ‘ crowds out ’ the manufacturing industries . |
| 5 | But touring takes up so much time that there 's no real time to sit down and work out songs . |
| 6 | I prefer being out of doors , though , that 's my trouble , and writing takes up so much time . |
| 7 | Because of this , what we see on the screen seems not so much acting as existing . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dr Colophon , consultant psychologist to the Press Council , examines why so many consultant psychologists seem impelled to spill the dirt on people like Prince Charles , Mrs Thatcher and Ian Botham . |
| 10 | None of the collaborators mobilised by Hitler 's conquests , not even Petain , evokes quite so much disgust . |
| 11 | The merit of the book , however , does not so much lie in its attempt to break the " iron curtain " that traditionally separates linguistic and literary approaches to literature , but rather in its contribution to the development of a stylistics that successfully reconciles linguistic analysis with a consideration of the socio-cultural and ideological dimensions of the production and reception of literary texts . |
| 12 | However , the main point does not so much concern the question of whether seasonal usage would be constant or not , or whether costs are rising or falling or staying constant , but that the cash payments method does not record the cost of carrying out the activities for the year . |
| 13 | The denial does not so much refute prospective criticism as pay danegeld to it . |
| 14 | Prince does n't so much build bridges between categories as create music that exceeds each category simultaneously . |
| 15 | This pattern of land distribution reflects such great disparities and brings about so much poverty that it represents one of the major problems that agrarian reform has addressed . |