Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | 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 . |
| 32 | Mr Sims , if that was his real name , dressed not so much snappily as very cleanly . |
| 33 | Dada accepted all the changes at Deer Forest , not so much apathetically as with genuine indifference . |
| 34 | And take so much off and pat it up and then then wrap it , very nice and neatly . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | Not so much now because of ill health but she used to . |
| 38 | Not so much now because it 's mainly the youngsters that go there . |
| 39 | Erm the only problem is well , even s even , not so much now because because the er a bit better . |
| 40 | 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 . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | Perhaps it is because the fishermen have been demonstrating so much recently that they have not been catching so much fish . ’ |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | ‘ This is a great mystery , ’ declares the apostle Paul , for it is so much more than two people getting together . |
| 45 | The proportion of out-of-wedlock births has increased so much mainly because the number of births to married couples has sharply declined . |
| 46 | So violent sometimes that they can not stand up but lie perfectly exhausted . |
| 47 | alright you do n't ne , actually you do n't need your hood up , because it 's ever so warm even though it 's dull |
| 48 | How can you now suddenly decide that this is the truth when you were so convinced before that I was guilty of every form of unscrupulous dealing possible ? ’ |
| 49 | It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be . |
| 50 | Stoppard 's stage directions are so explicit here that we do not have to watch the TV production in order to appreciate the impact of Anderson 's action . |
| 51 | The playing is so fine here that the notoriously ‘ unsatisfactory ’ ending makes complete sense . |
| 52 | One librarian felt so hard up that she had begun looking for bargains at car boot sales — ‘ Adrian Mole in mint condition for 20p ’ — a practice which raises many questions about funding our schools . |
| 53 | Dr Johannsen told us all about the work you do , about how you would n't take payment for it , and you so hard up and all . |
| 54 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 55 | he can be so stubborn sometimes and , and you know the other |
| 56 | So straw-burning rather than using straw for animals is something which is bad for the environment and for welfare . |
| 57 | She was so tense now that her muscles were beginning to quiver . |
| 58 | ‘ No , ’ she answered quietly , and felt so guilt-ridden then that she could n't look at him , but turned her head and stared out of the side-window . |
| 59 | United not so good away but you never know … |
| 60 | Be so good now as to march these miscreants to Mutton House . |