Example sentences of "[adv] so [det] that [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The plane was loaded down so much that it had difficulty in skimming the tops of those large mountains , but I was not troubled , thinking that the pilot was a well-trained American , until after an hour of this mountain hopping a small Chinese face appeared at the cockpit door and said , ‘ Is you all all-lite ? ’ |
| 2 | It 's been a bit of a pity , really , that rugby has taken over so much that I have n't been able to continue playing football . |
| 3 | What is remarkable about the text-books ( which describe the chemical structure of the various chains in loving detail ) is not so much that they do not explain the discrepancy but that they do not even notice it ; nor are they apparently interested in the fact that the work of fracture for a material like Polythene or Nylon is at least a hundred times higher than it is for most of the thermosetting plastics . |
| 4 | It 's not so much that they undersell themselves in the UK , but they have to really pull their fingers out in the US . |
| 5 | I pointed out that I did not limp or at least not so much that anyone had previously noticed . |
| 6 | It was not so much that she took things from the house — though his racial fear of the poorhouse or famine was deep — but that she left the house at all . |
| 7 | It was not so much that she distrusted banks as the bother for the visit . |
| 8 | It was not so much that she did not trust him as that she had been inhibited by her clerical superiors , Gilbert included . |
| 9 | As you pick up the flesh , squeeze it and apply as much pressure as you can tolerate , but not so much that you bruise the area . |
| 10 | And often , says Penny Mansfield , it 's not so much that he falls in love with another woman but he 's at a stage in life where he wants some diversion . |
| 11 | It was not so much that he had anything against people in general , more that he saw no purpose in deliberately setting up occasions on which you stood around trying to think of something to say . |
| 12 | Constant change was worse still ; in the words of one satirist , the scandal of the player was not so much that he disguised his real self in playing ; rather he had no self apart from that which he was playing : ‘ The Statute hath done wisely to acknowledge him a Rogue and errant , tor his chiefe essence is , A daily Counterfeit … |
| 13 | There was some smoke there but not so much that he required to use his goggles . |
| 14 | The amazing thing about this second ‘ Carry On ’ was not so much that it succeeded at all , but that it outgrossed the first in the series . |
| 15 | Not all the people who have been called structuralists have been happy to accept the label , but this suggests not so much that it has been over-enthusiastically applied , but that far from being a school or a doctrine , structuralism is indeed a generalized revolution in ways of thinking . |
| 16 | One important part of the citizens charter is not so much that it contains many individual ideas and proposals for change , but that it is intended to change the entire attitude of public servants and the way in which citizens approach them . |
| 17 | Emotions towards the skipper must be mixed : his runs are obviously needed , but not so many that he presents an unanswerable case for a Test recall . |
| 18 | She wanted to believe him , wanted to believe that note of compassion in his voice was real so much that it hurt . |
| 19 | If he lifted a piece of chalk or opened a book , it usually tired him out so much that he spent the rest of the lesson dozing . |
| 20 | ‘ What saddened me about the reviews , ’ said Crawford , ‘ was n't so much that they had a go at the play , but they did n't recognise all the work done for me by the rest of the team . |
| 21 | It was n't so much that he had confirmed her fears , it was his tone she found infuriating . |
| 22 | It was n't so much that she looked old and wrinkled ( if you could discount the gleaming white halo of hair ) since her complexion was as smooth and pink as an infant 's . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps it was n't so much that she wanted to leave home . |
| 24 | They grow in clusters in woods and gardens and there are sometimes so many that they look like one huge blue carpet . |