Example sentences of "so [adj] [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ride followed by Marian and Allen , although not so broad as the main Highway , was lighter because the trees that flanked it , being for the most part giant oaks , had quelled the subordinate vegetation and left airy vistas between their trunks . |
| 2 | I 'm ever so sorry when the erm , master mind finished |
| 3 | However , the complications created by roots are not so acute when the tree is standing on level land . |
| 4 | ‘ I took a kick on the side of the knee and it was so unnecessary because the ball was two or three yards away . |
| 5 | But it would n't have been so funny if the robbers were n't as stupid as they were and the film would n't have been so good . |
| 6 | European race feldeggii looks smaller and slenderer than Peregrine and differs also in its browner ( but not so brown as the Saker ) upperparts , pinkish underparts , rufous or buff crown and nape and much narrower moustachial stripe ; also has longer tail and blunter wings . |
| 7 | Charles sat among Charity 's glossy acquaintances , the only uniform in the whole peculiar set of imbibers , perhaps not so peculiar as the last time he 'd dropped in when the Aleister Crowley entourage gave sinister overtones to the entire pub , the ‘ Black Magician ’ himself in his wide black hat sat surrounded by his followers in equally curious clothes . |
| 8 | If we can achieve so much before the demonstration is even held then much more is possible . ’ |
| 9 | It would not have mattered so much if the experiments described all held water , but when ( as we were encouraged to do ) I put up my hand and ventured that one experiment was not consistent , the lecturer acknowledged that this was so in the particular I questioned , but said that the results were usually found to be as would have been expected . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It would n't have mattered so much if the nights had brought the compensations she had been led to expect . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Ma Bell is prepared to pay so much because the firm 's chairman , Robert Allen , is convinced that the computer and telecommunications industries are converging . |
| 14 | This occurs not so much because the engineers are callous , but because of a blinkered approach by all parties . |
| 15 | It 's not so much because the Royal Family is out there , but because you are in front of so many of your peers . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | The class of service determines which facilities you can use , I would n't worry about that so much because the system is set up so that most people can use most facilities . |
| 18 | At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation . |
| 19 | Thus his erotic imagining of the usurping male is not the eruption of repressed homosexual desire so much as the fantasized , fearful convergence of identification and desire , precipitated by an actual convergence of their respective objects . |
| 20 | A principal medium of transgressive reinscription is fantasy — but again , not the fantasy of transcendence so much as the inherently perverse , transgressive reordering of fantasy 's conventional opposite , the mundane . |
| 21 | It is not a ‘ defence ’ so much as the negation of the elements of the crime . |
| 22 | But it was not the face , or the manner which struck Wilson most so much as the lithesome body . |
| 23 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 24 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 25 | The system would resemble nothing so much as the ‘ democratic centralism ’ much beloved of Leninist and Maoist governments . |
| 26 | More often , the establishment of a uniform language is not the motive so much as the result — and not invariably so — of national independence . |
| 27 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 28 | The emphasis in the Lincolnshire scheme and in LMS under the 1988 Education Reform Act is not merely on financial management so much as the management of the total school resource . |
| 29 | In fact it 's not that the memory is lost , so much as the person ca n't get out the facts which are stored in the memory . |
| 30 | It is not that such a fuel can not be produced , so much as the scale of production required . |