Example sentences of "so [det] [conj] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was also the practical reason to provide convincing reasons why so many men were possessed of so little or no assessable ‘ substance ’ , and in the subsidy to justify the assessments of wages which only became effective in the absence of taxable goods , and , moreover , masters were responsible for the payment of their servants ' taxes . |
| 2 | There were very few lone parents on the books at that time : so few that no separate statistics were kept of their numbers . |
| 3 | Run-up is conducted at 1800 rpm , but the instruments and controls are so few that the pre-take-off checks are minimal . |
| 4 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 5 | The present danger is perhaps not so much that an honest trustee may be unfairly penalized as that a dishonest trustee may with impunity inflict loss on the beneficiaries . |
| 6 | It is n't so much that the ultimate disappearance of the USM itself is particularly jeopardising the potential market for smaller companies . |
| 7 | Indeed , it is not so much that the invading spirit is definitively exorcized from its human host , as that the host learns to live with her familiar who may make his presence felt whenever his mistress is in difficulties . |
| 8 | He had come to the banqueting hall in order to have a look at the river from the roof ; the river had risen and widened so much that the entire countryside seemed to be sliding past and one felt as if one were standing on the deck of a ship . |
| 9 | In other words , the value of money decreases so much that the eventual outlay of £1,116 over 93 years is only equivalent to just short of £200 in 1900 's currency — weird stuff money ! |
| 10 | Sunday was always the same in the Lewis home — now that it really was the Lewis home ; for the first ten years of Jo 's life her mother had been away making films and her father had been away on business so much that the main house had been a ghost dwelling ; the Chippendale and Sheraton furniture was draped in dust sheets . |
| 11 | It would not matter so much if a Turkish president were just a figurehead . |
| 12 | It 's not so much because the Royal Family is out there , but because you are in front of so many of your peers . |
| 13 | The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin . |
| 14 | Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners . |
| 15 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |
| 16 | " The unrest of which we hear so much as a new disease exists chiefly in the minds of the agitators " , chief among whom was Havelock Wilson himself but also his associates , especially Edward Tupper , " a fraudulent imposter who , while pretending to be an enemy of Capital , was in reality a bankrupt company promoter " . |
| 17 | There is nothing Perks like so much as a good fight . |
| 18 | Nigel Lowson , however , now head of geography at the £9,150-a-year Tonbridge School in Kent , remembers Tim not so much as a staid , jolly , reliable type as a chap with a sense of humour . |
| 19 | This means that history can be theorized not so much as a contradictory process but as a concept that must enact its own contradiction with itself : ‘ this difference is what is called History ’ . |
| 20 | She closed her eyes theatrically , and resembled nothing so much as a reigning prima donna who is being pestered by her producer to act . |
| 21 | I never heard so much as a malicious word or imputation . |
| 22 | Even so , I was looking forward to nothing so much as a long hot soak in the bath . |
| 23 | She could well imagine what was going on in his mind : fickle , impulsive girl who flitted from one man to another without so much as a backward glance . |
| 24 | Without so much as a backward glance she left the room , indignation clear in the rigidity of her spine as his mocking laugh rang out behind her . |
| 25 | He walked away down the corridor , without so much as a backward look , and tears stung her eyes . |
| 26 | He stood up then and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance . |
| 27 | She stood up and walked from the room without so much as a backward glance , and Shae looked down at her hands , surprised to find they were trembling , though they 'd been rock steady just minutes before . |
| 28 | With which she stalked past him and into the hall without so much as a backward glance at Theda , standing by the desk , a look of new hope in her eyes . |
| 29 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 30 | A.agassizii is even more peaceful than most — I have two males and a female occupying an 18″ breeding tank without the non-dominant male showing so much as a frayed fin . |