Example sentences of "so [adv] the [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 the luxury of a crisp autumn day would provide more suitable conditions for the complete ridge traverse if snow and ice make you nervous . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | Co-curators David W. Penney , Associate Curator , Department of African , Oceanic and New World Cultures , at the Detroit Institute , and George P. Horse Capture , a member of the Cros Ventre tribe and formerly Curator of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Historical Center , tell us that ‘ art as a category did not exist in American Indian languages ’ , but their concern ‘ is not so much the issue of defining American Indian creations to fit a European definition of ‘ art ’ , but of redefining ‘ art ’ and consequently art history to include the artistic practices of American Indians , Africans , folk artists , and even the modern film industry , advertising and popular illustrations ’ . |
| 8 | The new feature that has emerged from this study of the parallelistic couplet is not so much the identification of a particular relationship of the lines of the couplet ( greater precision ) as a movement towards a statement of relationships within the poetic couplet . |
| 9 | They are also inextricably bound up with evaluations which were at the time extremely unfashionable : not so much the depreciation of Euripides , who , although the most admired of the tragic poets in later antiquity , hardly approached that popularity again until the twentieth century ( and who , in any case , had been subjected to a famous critique in the lectures of A. W. Schlegel as long ago as 1808 ) ; rather , the elevation of " primitive " Aeschylus above even Sophocles , and the disrespect shown towards Socrates and the " divine " Plato . |
| 10 | She found herself looking covertly at the bed , which had so much the air of being from a foreign country . |
| 11 | It is not so much the size of the postbag as the issues raised in the responses which should give the Cadbury Committee pause for thought . |
| 12 | It is not so much the size of the postbag as the issues raised in the responses which should give the Cadbury Committee pause for thought |
| 13 | It must have been a savage attack ; Boswell had offended Johnson 's pride and held him up to ridicule ; now Johnson retaliated with such force that Boswell says , ‘ though I can bear such attacks as well as most men , I yet found myself so much the sport of all the company , that I would gladly expunge from my mind every trace of this severe retort . ’ |
| 14 | In the Habsburg Empire in 1848 , as in Russia in 1861 , it was not so much the unpopularity of serfdom among the peasantry which determined emancipation , undoubted though this was , as the fear of a non-peasant revolution which might acquire decisive force by mobilising peasant discontent . |
| 15 | Ultimately , this poem may demonstrate not so much the frailty of Leapor 's beliefs , as the importance of Bridget Freemantle as her implied reader . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ This suggests that the audit is not so much the price of limited liability as a protection for shareholders . ’ |
| 18 | Joan of Arc 's hallucinations were not so much the voice of God as the voice of some aberrant neurons in her temporal lobes . |
| 19 | For most Greeks , a political party has long been not so much the voice of an ideology , or even of a class , as a system of social protection . |
| 20 | However , from evidence cited by Shane ( ibid ) , it is not so much the lack of legislation but the unwillingness or inability of governments to enforce existing measures adequately which is the more fundamental problem . |
| 21 | ‘ It was n't so much the shock of seeing him in a metal cage , it was the atmosphere of the place . |
| 22 | One of the reasons why it is harder to run classes in Ipswich is not so much the diversity of entertainment provided but the overlapping of cultural activity , The WEA offers a broad cultural front , and a Branch in a village is the fount of all learning , but in a large town the musicians … artists and dramatists … historians and archaeologists have respective organisations catering for their taste , even the natural scientists do … |
| 23 | It was not so much the existence of war as the manner of fighting it which aroused the criticism of an increasingly outspoken body of persons who reflected the views of society in the growing vernacular literature and poetry of the time . |
| 24 | The real problem is not so much the scale of decentralization but the selective nature of demographic decentralization . |
| 25 | In a strict sense it is not so much the content of drama which is distinctive , but the way in which it is considered ( p. 16 ) . |
| 26 | What is important here is not so much the content of what seniors convey as the process of doing so . |
| 27 | The result was not so much the realization of Ashley 's vision of national regeneration but a growing acceptance by those holding high office of the need to subscribe publicly to an upright moral code . |
| 28 | The crucial issue , union reps say , is not so much the imposition of a maximum 1.5 per cent increase in line with the rest of the public sector but the abandonment of the all-party agreement on the fire service pay formula . |
| 29 | For this reason , management is not so much the exercise of power as the empowerment of others . |
| 30 | The continuation of farming is not so much the objective of the Directive but the means to attain its objectives . |