Example sentences of "so much [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Oh my chest hurts so much every time I cough like that .
2 Mm pay so much a year .
3 and either pay it all in one I asked if I could pay it do so much , you know so much a year
4 It was n't quite so much a cliche in nineteen twenty seven , but erm , nevertheless , this is the starting point of Freud 's er , Freud 's analysis .
5 with alcohol I mean alcohol is so much a part of the establishment of Oxford .
6 What they call stand-by mo they do today , they still guarantee a day 's , it ai n't much mind you but they still get guaranteed so much a day .
7 It 's not so much a question it 's a comment .
8 They have a very fiercely competitive system , and some people say that you have to start preparing for this at nursery school erm and it 's a question of going to the right schools , going to the right training colleges , though it 's not so much a question of going to university , although you do have to have a university degree in most cases , but they have special training establishments with a tough competition to get into it , and as a result of this the people who come out are very highly selected , and think of themselves as being very professional , very competent , they have a great deal more self confidence , in some ways , than our British civil servants do .
9 the Antichrist is not so much a person as a principle .
10 My step brother , Tommy , do you know the original well Mr was a sales rep for Bokes couriers , and er his wife used to make pickles , homemade , and she us Mr used to give his friends a jar of pickles occasionally and er from that the idea of selling them , cos it ou after they 'd started distributing amongst his friends he got the idea that there was a market for it , so my step-brother Tommy er started to work with Mrs we used to call them Mrs but her name was , Street you know where Street is , well on the left hand side of Street about oh at the back of the first row of houses in Street , there was a , a small open space and Mr had a big shed put there , and er started buying the pickling onions and er all the women who wished to started skinning onions at so much a bag for Mr and er he 'd gradually built himself up but me step- brother Tommy was er working full time helping Mrs to pick the onions and , and that , that 's how Mac 's Pickles started was just from a mere fact of him being a commercial traveller and he 'd di distribute them to his friends and created the , a market for himself really ac actually they , they , they did have a van driver and a van , a van to deliver them as they gradually increased the supply and they used to deliver them all , all around the area .
11 And , and in a sense , not to be explicit , would , would have been not so much a crime , but would have been an error I think .
12 And they , the company wrote back and said it 's so much a policy and looks reasonable and I sent them a bloody cheque you see
13 You 've got ta put an offer in and pay it so much a month have n't you or something and , and , and get it paid off over a period of time ?
14 So it 's not so much a device to study in its own right , it 's a teaching aid in other words , a classroom aid .
15 Yes , it was not so much a deletion as er a reduction in the numbers because we were very mindful erm in going through the requirement erm and not making significant changes as far as the U K was concerned and we needed to make some savings in cost if at all possible and therefore we carried out a very comprehensive review of all the items of role equipment such as drop tanks er pylons , explosive release units and those type of things which had been provisionally earmarked for a very high intensive and fairly long running conflict and it was felt that if we were to make some savings then it was a sensible balance to reduce those numbers on the basis that we could save some money in the programme but at the same time many of these items could be bought later on at relatively short notice , clearly not within a conflict but in the years to come .
16 And what do you do , do you just put so much a week in a kitty for that ?
17 No Alma 's been erm keeping some money for me and I , she , I give her so much a week and she give it all today .
18 You have to pay so much a week
19 Aye , they get so much a week .
20 Well it 's , it 's not so much a suggestion it 's more that you ca n't do multiplicational area until
21 Chairman 's the person that can sit in with the group of people and is good in terms of receiving information from people and disseminating information and giving it back out again making sure that everybody 's being brought in so he 's a person really not not so much a leader but he will be a person who can keep the group together and can make sure that all the information flows around the group and that everybody 's getting a fair say a fair crack of the whip in terms of what 's going on in terms of orienting towards a task , so everything 's towards a task you need towards a task .
22 We 'll go a little , trifle slower but rather than no it 's not so much a trifle slower as steadily .
23 I do n't think it 's so much the difficulty of the matter , as the inadequacy of the manner , but erm it the main structure behind erm what I have to say at any rate revolves round these three successive ideas of time , intellect , memory .
24 Possibly not so much the cost , what other factors in the list of , of determinants could come into play now ?
25 I think one of the main points is not so much the way it 's taught but who teaches it .
26 But that 's not so much the building as th
27 Where the female chooses not so much the male as what the male 's got is erm female choice as I said when Darwin suggested was widely ridiculed , partly because i it , it contradicted Victorian prejudices .
28 Well the idea is , is it 's not so much the lead
29 It was n't so much the fact that of parking on the footpath it was the consequences of parking on the footpath .
30 Cos the important thing is is not so much the number of hours as the , the , the affecting on , the effect on the cost .
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