Example sentences of "so [adv] [art] [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | They make a couple of mistakes , the most regrettable being an abominable version of ‘ Ghost Town ’ , but get it so right the rest of the time it 's easy to forgive them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Hard to remember , between readings , that Brideshead and Nineteen Eighty-Four are funny books : one recalls so vividly the gravity of their themes , so little the gaiety of their prose , that a rereading can easily surprise . |
| 4 | Nowhere in the world did the railway station represent so powerfully the combination of an intrusive technical power together with the search for national identity as in Latin America . |
| 5 | So perhaps a lot of the times but I would have maybe suggested that , that we could have done and presented that as part of the package . |
| 6 | So perhaps the luxury of a crisp autumn day would provide more suitable conditions for the complete ridge traverse if snow and ice make you nervous . |
| 7 | So perhaps the sort of thing that might happen is what we found wholly by chance , in the personal interviews which we conducted with people who had been the subject of judgement summonses ( Appendix II , section 5 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was n't so much a case of thinking : he looks a lovely chappie . |
| 10 | Indeed , it is not so much a case of them accompanying the AIB team members as of them being part of the team . |
| 11 | Your selection of wayward notices ( 27th November ) reminded me of one I saw in my hotel in Frankfurt — not so much a case of bad translation , as a question of logic . |
| 12 | It is , then , not so much a case of ellipsis occurring in informal speech as of writing requiring a degree of elaboration that is not necessary in informal speech . |
| 13 | It is not so much a case of Captain Bob as of Major John and Petty Officer Newton . |
| 14 | It was not so much a case of social science theories being senseless , misguided or absurd , but more to do with their serious lack of evidential support . |
| 15 | However , jailing Shields for three months , Sheriff William Fulton told him : ‘ It is not so much a case of stealing from this house as plundering it , ransacking it and leaving it in an awful mess . |
| 16 | It was not so much a case of Glasgow getting worse as one of the rest of the country improving faster . |
| 17 | Though Masonry was always to be an element in the liberal forces — particularly in later non-socialist brands of Republicanism — it was never again , as it was from 1815 to 1820 , its chief framework ; even then it was not so much a system of belief as the only clandestine organization available for conspiracy . |
| 18 | His treatment of the " Alliterative Revival " is in some ways reminiscent of earlier treatments which argue that later alliterative writing in English reflects not so much a continuation of OE principles ( which language-change would in any case have made unlikely ) , but a re-invention from a tradition of alliterative prose-writing which began with AElfric . |
| 19 | And what was tending to happen here , as the Scottish Typographical Circular regularly reported , was not so much a division of labour between women on straight setting and men on other processes , but rather the diversion of certain kinds of typesetting from the linesmen ( male piece-workers ) to the women , who were not only paid much less but who were also considered by some employers to be actually better at it . |
| 20 | It 's not so much a lack of generosity — a real miserliness . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Punch is certainly one of the great British institutions , and has become so much a way of life as to make it impossible to imagine a world without it . |
| 23 | Perhaps not so much a way of life , but what Wittgenstein called a ‘ form of life ’ : small and privatised world-views binding on the group and consisting of accepted social practices , group norms and common languages ( by the latter I do not mean natural languages like French or English , but a nomenclature or group argot ) . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ When you travel round the world , and being brought up in a family like mine , you learn that what happens on the field is actually very important to people elsewhere , and you feel , perhaps not so much a sense of responsibility , as a sense of focus in which people identify nationally for the best kind of reasons , and are made aware of who they are and what they came from . |
| 27 | The male body was of little aesthetic interest to him , and the female was so mutable , so much a function of its own motion , or that of light across it , that all static representation seemed to him doomed from the outset . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | The degree of risk created by the bad driving should be regarded as the crucial factor ; it is not so much a question of whether the sentence should be more severe when the risk eventuates , as whether the sentence should be more lenient when the risk does not materialize . |
| 30 | When the economic crisis became severe , community mobilization became not so much a question of participation in decision-making as practical support to keep schools and education projects going . |