Example sentences of "so much [conj] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Like everywhere else we have tightened our belt so much that every pound has to be accounted for , ’ he explained . |
| 2 | The problem is to produce a high quality insulator , without heating the substrate so much that the substrate itself suffers . |
| 3 | His hand was shaking so much that the bottle he was holding rattled against his glass like a window in a thunderstorm . |
| 4 | The danger with regard to capital gains tax is not so much that the protector may be treated as a trustee , which is very unlikely in a properly drawn protectorship clause in the deed , but that he may de facto intervene in the way the trust is carried out so that the Revenue may argue that the general administration of the trust is not ordinarily carried on outside the United Kingdom . |
| 5 | In general , though , it was not so much that the Radburn approach was questioned , but more perhaps that the densities at which it was increasingly being applied were inappropriate . |
| 6 | What she did not know was that it was not so much that the work was difficult , but that there was so very much of it , and all tiring . |
| 7 | The Chinese used their belts so much that the metal buckle came off . |
| 8 | Gravity lightened so much that the trio almost felt afloat . |
| 9 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 10 | Psalm 104:30 : ‘ When thou sendest forth thy Spirit they are created , and thou renewest the face of the ground ’ refers to the animal creation , and may mean not so much that the Spirit created them , but , as in Genesis 2:7 , that God breathes his life into the already moulded form of animals and man . |
| 11 | He knew that it had been a joke , because when it was over his father laughed so much that the laughter was still echoing around them as they started back towards the light . |
| 12 | It is not so much that the stuff itself is pink ( the stuff itself is chartreuse , as a matter of fact ) but that everything connected with it and surrounding it is : its packaging , its bottle-top , the invitations and programmes for its launch at the Opéra-Comique — its vie , if you like , is en rose . |
| 13 | It is not so much that the culture of masculine honour is a sublimation of homosexuality , ; rather masculine honour repeatedly incites what , heterosexually , it presupposes but can not admit . |
| 14 | I mean , some films I think they 're pathetic in so much that the story |
| 15 | I think the cut-out must have no plant form then , it should be earthy or an old withered tree trunk or some such — because the dancers personify Spring so much that the stage should represent the earth . |
| 16 | The viking army also would not let the giantesses rest , but sailed away with them and set them to grinding salt ; they ground so much that the boat sank and the mill with it , though still ( adds folk-tradition ) in the Maelstrom the giantesses grind their magic quern . |
| 17 | And there arose a fierce gale of wind and the waves were breaking over the boat so much that the boat was already filling up and he himself was in the stern asleep on the cushion . |
| 18 | She and Donald had started to take risks — they wanted each other so much that the reality of other people had dimmed for them , half the time they felt cloaked in invisibility . |
| 19 | If the brightness backward mask follows soon enough after the target and is bright enough , it will reduce contrast in the target display so much that the target contours will not be discriminable from their background , and so the target will not be identifiable . |
| 20 | Once dormant , however , their metabolism slows down so much that the pineal is virtually switched off , and how they manage to rouse themselves at the correct time remains a mystery . |
| 21 | It was not so much that the match was any more frantic or violent than usual , but rather that there were in evidence throughout the afternoon , a lot of faces quick to register those expressions which used to be peculiar to spoiled infants whose worn-out parents had cracked and dared to cross their wills . |
| 22 | The inevitable clear soup followed ( pot au feu this time ) ; the sole was served in a delicate sauce almost imperceptibly flavoured with cheese , and the dean 's daughter appreciated it so much that the Colonel 's initial peevishness began to wear off . |
| 23 | Forester 's fear was not so much that the room might not have been available , but that if Hennessy had moved out the hotel might be closed down for the off-season altogether . |
| 24 | He qualified at Bletchley by knocking down Hove 's Justin Murphy twice in the first round , forcing him to hold on so much that the referee disqualified the Southerner . |
| 25 | If we can achieve so much before the demonstration is even held then much more is possible . ’ |
| 26 | It does n't matter so much if the document is to be a one-off , although it obviously helps fairly significantly if the material can actually be read . |
| 27 | Completing this task outside the ERM will be more difficult , but it would be a betrayal of those who have sacrificed so much if the task were to be abandoned . |
| 28 | When Arthur was sound again , I had Countryman and Lannegan , and somehow I did n't enjoy riding him so much because every time he jumped , I was afraid he 'd be lame . |
| 29 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 30 | The very suggestion pained her so much because the company appeared uncaring and tough ; she therefore denied that such a thing could possibly have occurred . |