Example sentences of "be so much a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the work of Bottomley and Coleman ( 1981 ) criminal statistics are so much a function of highly variable administrative practices that they seem almost incapable of telling us anything about anything . |
| 2 | To confront the anger of God in the way the ancient Israelites dared to do , to face it as directed against ourselves and the society of which we are so much a part , is to escape the romantic pretence , the unrelieved jollity , or the easy , unthinking speech of so much that passes for Christian belief and worship . |
| 3 | Any would be magnificent and there is time to knit several of them for ‘ specials ’ but I have n't said anything yet about small ‘ fun ’ presents and decorations which are so much a part of Christmas . |
| 4 | He did not enjoy it as he had the fishing that had been so much a part of his life on La Blanquilla . |
| 5 | ‘ The Nightingale ’ provides a record of one of the evening walks shared by Coleridge and the Wordsworths which had been so much a part of their lives together . |
| 6 | She had been so much a part of his plans for the future that he was now thinking of countries where they could farm together . |
| 7 | Seb thought she looked thinner and seemed to have lost much of the air of confidence that had always been so much a part of her . |
| 8 | The baby is well and so am I. You have always been so much a mother that I am not surprised that you feel like a grandmother , even without ‘ legal sanction ’ . |
| 9 | Even as Acheson pondered the problem Smith argues that the US was already moving toward support of the French although it might not have been so much a matter of whose hand was on the tiller as how the compass was being set . |
| 10 | Thus , it has been suggested that ‘ [ s ] hort-termism may not be so much a product of the mispricing of assets , … but more a reflection of contractual failures in securities markets in part brought on by the takeover process . |
| 11 | Street-fighting and village brawls at football matches were so much a part of ‘ traditional ’ society that we tend to forget how relatively civilized modern social life has become . |
| 12 | It may be hard to reconcile the ideals of chivalry at Edward 's court with the burning , looting and killing which were so much a part of the campaigns the nobles fought in France , and difficult to argue that the idea of chivalry had any substantially mitigating effect on the horrors of war . |
| 13 | The lulling cushion of blood-heat saline solution I floated on did help me to neglect those bodily fears that were so much a part of me . |
| 14 | She had grown used to the tiny sounds that were so much a part of Seawitch , just as she had grown used to the boat 's continually changing motion . |
| 15 | People thronged in the several outdoor cafés , while others sat in groups on the paving stones , enjoying the music , cans of Coke at their feet , slices of smørrebrød in their hands , while neatly stacked against the railings of the old houses with their terracotta- and gamboge-painted façades were the ubiquitous bicycles which were so much a part of the Danish travel scene . |
| 16 | He is so much a scum supporter it makes me heave . |
| 17 | The human element which is so much a part of the informal approach must be standardized if a team is to operate as a unit . |
| 18 | In 22 the Poet is so much a part of the Friend that he can not age , himself , ‘ So long as youth and thou are of one date ’ . |
| 19 | Brushing your teeth is so much a part of daily routine that it is sometimes easy to forget the importance of doing it properly . |
| 20 | And the word ‘ Glory ’ in verse 21 is so much a part of the language of our worship that it easy to overlook the significance of the phrase that Paul uses there . |
| 21 | Someone who is so much a part of you that if you were separated you 'd no longer feel whole . ’ |
| 22 | It is another pointer to that ambiguity which is so much a characteristic of his life and work , in which the essential orderliness and formal morality of his upbringing clash with his more libertarian — and sometimes libertine — impulses and imagination . |
| 23 | Since political bias was so much a characteristic of the press we might expect its influence to be more apparent in terms of attitudes than perceptions , however . |
| 24 | She was so much a daughter of the vicarage in accent , manner , and appearance ( her father had been a clergyman ) that without being told I had assumed , seeing evidence in Mrs Browning 's home that someone at some time had lived in a hot country , that her husband had been a missionary . |
| 25 | He was so much a part of her that she never needed nor wanted to examine too closely the nature of her feeling for him . |
| 26 | As for his goodness , the attempt to live a Christian life was so much a part of Irwin 's public persona that the legend became current that , arriving in India on Good Friday , he ignored the official ceremonies of welcome and went straight to church . |
| 27 | Even the presence of the very famous actor indeed who had undertaken the part of Macbeth was hardly noticed ; after all he was so much a part of the English scene as to be , very nearly , taken for granted , though his performance was , as always , brilliant . |
| 28 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |