Example sentences of "so [adv] the [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 That tradition lives on at the Banzai Pipeline , not so much the Wembley Stadium of surfing as its Coliseum .
2 Not so much The Monk as Barbara Cartland .
3 So obviously the UN would not try such a strange idea — or would it ?
4 It was in station catering , so long the Cinderella , that the changed order of the 1980s made its first mark .
5 For so long the London folk had been patient and kindly helping one another , and always so cheerful .
6 Her sister Sarah , for so long the Spencer girl in the spotlight , now had to make way for Diana .
7 Local mechanics can not do the job , so once the US experts have left , the government will have the burden of spending limited foreign currency to buy spare parts from abroad .
8 So both the March hare and the mad hatter are very mad .
9 Just as Israel at times has thwarted United States ' regional objectives , so also the PLO has at times thwarted the policies of Jordan and Syria ; Egypt has reneged on its commitment to the Soviet Union and a defeated Syria was able to destroy the Israeli-Lebanese Withdrawal Agreement virtually overnight .
10 So far the Musée Rodin has kept up a pretence of knowing nothing about the case while in reality keeping an extremely close eye on every aspect of it .
11 He 's conscious that safety-critical items such as tyres and brakes must n't be skimped on , but he 's not overly concerned about sticking to the recommended 6000-mile service schedule ; so far the Sierra has on average been serviced every 13,500 miles and has never seen the inside of a Ford dealer 's workshop .
12 So far the Europe-Japan connection has been the weakest link in the triangle of cooperation between Europe , the US and Japan .
13 So far the TUC has begun a series of training seminars with Solidarity aimed at pushing it away from being a political and highly regionalised organisation into being an industrial and truly national one .
14 So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions .
15 So far the US , like the European Community , has preferred to leave the Central American leaders to work out their own solutions .
16 So far the Lyneham pilots have flown nearly six hundred thousand tonnes of food into Sarajevo .
17 Mr Foster also called on the region 's chairman Peter Carr to issue a statement clarifying the position , adding : ‘ So far the NRH has failed to provide any kind of explanation or issue any credible public statement .
18 So far the Macedonian president , Kiro Gligorov , has rejected the offer of an arbitrated settlement , saying his country has the right to choose any name it likes .
19 So far the WACC Forum Programme has concentrated only on two or three aspects under this heading , namely , communication and theology , the electronic church and the introduction of communication studies in theological education .
20 So far the EPA has taken a back seat to the Department of the Interior in shaping new environmental policy in the new administration ; Interior Secretary Bruce Babbitt has already taken action on endangered species , land management issues and reorganizing its science programme .
21 But so far the MIGs have not returned .
22 But So far the Serbs seem not to care about their world image so the MP suggests they need to be told in no uncertain terms .
23 So now the Channel Islands businessmen want to buy out what they can not beat .
24 Then Nottingham learned that Rugby had indeed beaten Harlequins so now the Beeston club have to draw or win at Orrell in their last match on April 25 and Rugby have to lose at Leicester .
25 But because he read them so often the Bookman had a little problem .
26 If this is so then the Danzig Volkstag elections of 1927 would have confirmed this opinion , since the NSDAP polled a total of 1,400 votes to obtain only one of the 120 possible seats .
27 So again the Kline of the couplet is the more precise or specific .
28 So likewise the Saturday nights here , I 'm alright I do n't have to get up in the morning .
29 So neither the UK parent nor any of its wholly-owned subsidiaries qualify as small companies in their own right as they are members of an ineligible group .
30 So therefore the Ordo Hydra genuinely was a caring organization .
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