Example sentences of "so [adv] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other organisms show evidence for muscular activity and so presumably a nervous system , as well as the inferred presence of a circulatory system . |
| 2 | Well absolutely , I mean we 've got together a little earlier this year to make sure we did n't have the same problem as last year , and obviously that 's a good thing to get all the problems out of the way so early and so we can all plan ahead for next year without facing any problems that , you know , just before the season starts like we did this year , so altogether a good thing , yes . |
| 3 | Thus it becomes clearer why the Law Society is anxious to distinguish between professional services and business , to promote so vigorously an altruistic conception of the lawyer/client relationship . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | And so this is something that is going to touch an awful lot of people if it does turn sour , so all the more reason for me to be able to explain how I see it , and as I say , to hear how , what people think about the crisis . |
| 6 | On several occasions the ‘ correct ’ response was not the obvious one , so perhaps a wider variety of inputs could 've been catered for . |
| 7 | ( Though it was in fact close by the high altar steps , so perhaps a little logic came into it too . ) |
| 8 | So perhaps the first thing to say is that , as with the story , there is a considerable art of the pacing of humour . |
| 9 | So perhaps the first thing about that continuum is that none of them are right or wrong we all dis-represent the ways of behaving and it 's very much a personal choice which one will use at one stage . |
| 10 | So perhaps the total inventory of species during warm times is , in practice , as high or even higher than in cooler times . |
| 11 | So perhaps the underlying philosophy is I win you lose yeah ? me , I 'm gon na win and gon na be loud and be aggressive , I 'm gon na stand over you , I 'm gon na stand very close to you , I 'm gon na point my finger at ya , I 'm gon na stare at you . |
| 12 | To summarise this conception : for both Marx and Braverman the developed form of the division of labour within the capitalist enterprise is not so much a technical division of tasks — as in early manufacture — but a socially determined structure , reflecting the exigencies of the production of surplus value . |
| 13 | In some variants of reported speech where the speaker is only implicitly identified , the words may be not so much a straight transformation of what was said as a summary or paraphrase of it . |
| 14 | From Deleuze and Guattari , Lecercle picks up the idea of the potential violence of the institution of language which , as they point out , is not so much a neutral entity that can best be analysed by looking at " normal " ( i.e. declarative ) sentences as a series of other people 's slogans organised into a system of power-relations . |
| 15 | But , as the editor Andre Fontaine explains : ‘ It is not so much a new layout as a new presentation . |
| 16 | It was not so much a new view as an old view applied to new problems . |
| 17 | The Council of the Law Society has power to grant waivers in appropriate cases , eg where additional accommodation is not so much a separate office as an annexe to the main place of business , and will as a matter of practice take soundings from the local law society before reaching its decision . |
| 18 | Indeed , I think that the onslaught of modern consumerism is not so much a slavish addiction to fashion as a capitulation to hedonism . |
| 19 | Gluing is not so much a skilled job as a responsible one and a large number of mistakes are available to a determined man , all of which can have dangerous results . |
| 20 | With 13,000 acres of rolling Northamptonshire farmland , more than 100 tied cottages , a valuable collection of paintings , several by Sir Joshua Reynolds , rare books , and seventeenth-century porcelain , furniture and silver , including the Marlborough collection , Althorp was not so much a stately home , more a way of life . |
| 21 | Not so much a staring role ; more part of the support cast . |
| 22 | This is where the spectacular forms of regeneration that characterised the 1980s ( Harvey , 1989 ) were not so much a postmodern discontinuity as a logical extension of the tradition of symbolically rich , effectively marginal , policy palliatives that were offered to the urban crisis from the 1960s onwards . |
| 23 | This time it was n't so much a reflex action , an attempt to remove something nasty somewhere down his windpipe , as a deliberate social signal . |
| 24 | Here , you are at the very heart of this beautiful city , staying in not so much a conventional hotel , as a comfortable home from home where your welcoming hosts are Signor and Signora Farnetani . |
| 25 | This is because even a so-called tangible asset represents not so much a physical item as the rights to use that physical item , which in turn derive from ownership or other rights . |
| 26 | The ‘ battle between voices ’ in the above passage is not so much a semantic opposition as a fight for rhetorical supremacy . |
| 27 | This is in clear contrast to the divergence model in Indo-European studies , and as a result of this contrast , the shape that emerges from historical language description ( from ancient times to the present day ) is not so much a pyramidal shape ( with gradual convergence at the top ) as a funnel shape ( the kind that is used for pouring liquids ) , as in figure 3.1 . |
| 28 | Thinking of Giles Carnaby , of course , was not so much a considered process as an involuntary twitch . |
| 29 | BRIAN Johnston is not so much a ball-by-ball cricket commentator , more a national institution . |
| 30 | To criticise language for being ‘ misleading ’ as to the state of affairs in the real world is to tilt at windmills , because language is not so much a limpid pool through which we are to glimpse the truth as a muddy pond full of the debris of history and ideology . |