Example sentences of "so much [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My main concern is , that I think that over the years , as people have lived longer and as they became retired , we 've tended to neglect them , not so much financially and in terms of their conditions , though I think there 's always arguments about that ; I think we 've actually neglected their role in the community . |
| 2 | But perhaps you 've got a long drive ahead , ’ he said , not so much hesitantly as enquiringly . |
| 3 | But a certain failure , distressing to themselves , to be like other people , caused them to sink back , with so much else that drifted or was washed up , into the mud moorings of the great tide-way . |
| 4 | Little kids eat you alive , they want so much physically and emotionally . ’ |
| 5 | She found it unnerving to be made aware that she could want a man so much physically when her mind was totally against it . |
| 6 | On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization . |
| 7 | The problem was that I think David was moving so much away and into this trip of actually doing music with a message — of actually delivering something on stage which meant something to other people of his age . |
| 8 | Socially mobile within the middle class we were going not so much up but sideways , heading towards sub-cultures , which as yet did not exist , and which we could envisage only hazily . |
| 9 | Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly . |
| 10 | Dada accepted all the changes at Deer Forest , not so much apathetically as with genuine indifference . |
| 11 | And take so much off and pat it up and then then wrap it , very nice and neatly . |
| 12 | An ’ I 'm aware of them so much now that I 'd do anyfink in my power to do somefink to them to get self-satisfaction . |
| 13 | Shutting his eyes , he stopped and was there the one he always remembered from his childhood polish , dust , though not so much now as the smell of books . |
| 14 | Not so much now because of ill health but she used to . |
| 15 | Not so much now because it 's mainly the youngsters that go there . |
| 16 | Erm the only problem is well , even s even , not so much now because because the er a bit better . |
| 17 | And so quite a big job has been cutting reeds back around the islands and the banks , and also we 've had what they call blooms of blanketweed , not so much recently but , apparently it 's more common with new ponds and I had a tremendous bloom of blanketweed the first year after I made it . |
| 18 | It numbed the mind of one woman so much recently that she left her baby to suffocate inside her car while hoping to hit the jackpot , a bucketful of balls , which can be exchanged for jars of coffee or pairs of tights . |
| 19 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 20 | With every hot day in July worth so much more than one in the mists of September , the later start threatens to take the gloss of what , at first glance , seems set to be a good harvest . |
| 21 | ‘ This is a great mystery , ’ declares the apostle Paul , for it is so much more than two people getting together . |
| 22 | The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined . |