Example sentences of "of [adj] [noun] so [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But once the authorities had clamped down , it was not a case of political Stalinism so much as bureaucratic perfidy and complete lack of imagination . |
| 2 | This certainly makes room for the many capitalist configurations found in history But some of Poulantzas ' critics have complained that , instead of creating a theory , all he has provided is an overblown list a set of descriptive categories so various as to be applicable to any social formation , and lacking any explanatory bite . |
| 3 | The highest valleys and plateaux of this region disappear into a strange , glittering mist of raw magic so strong it becomes visible even to those without the wizard sight . |
| 4 | While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 5 | The 1980s have seen an increasing North-South regional polarisation , a de-industrialisation of the old heartlands of British industry so great that one can understand why it has been said that the working class have a nostalgia for industry , a decline in welfare provision for those most in need , a redistribution of taxation in favour of the well-off and — as distressingly revealed during the miners ' strike of 1984–5 — the growth of a national paramilitary form of policing acting on behalf of a government determined to weaken trade unionism while British capitalism restructures itself . |
| 6 | In the open intellectual milieu where Catholic exegetes and theologians now move among colleagues of other traditions of faith or of none , the traditional term ‘ hermeneutics ’ ( the art and the principles of interpretation ) has been taken over for a mode of philosophical discussion so technical that its products are usually baffling even to a well-educated reader . |
| 7 | Each party 's entitlement of seats should be proportionate to its share of the total constituency votes received by candidates of all parties , and it would be met by the award ( if necessary ) of a number of additional seats so calculated as to " redress the distorted results in the constituencies " . |
| 8 | Nor is the case of information-based services so clear-cut , as most involve some form of tangible documentation , for example , off-the-shelf insurance policies , legal briefs , or even this text ! |
| 9 | It is important to note that a presupposition of this sort of sampling is that each stage is composed of similar sub-units so that sampling at each stage will not result in unrepresentative samples . |
| 10 | In support of the proposition that the development of the nouveau roman corresponds to the transition from modernism to postmodernism , it can certainly be shown that the early productions of the nouveaux romanciers are susceptible to readings which to some extent meet the criteria of psychological realism so important in modernist aesthetics . |
| 11 | This is an area of human emotion so fraught with difficulty that attitudes to it are poles apart . |
| 12 | Once they 've served any kind of custodial sentence so much damage is done … ’ |
| 13 | It is perhaps ironical that while the decision by Britain to apply for EEC membership implied a tacit acceptance of the supranational principle inherent in the Treaty of Rome , the Gaullist design for Europe , which de Gaulle called the ‘ Europe des Patries ’ , was very similar to the kind of traditional scheme so popular in the past with British politicians — an alliance sustained primarily by frequent conversations between national governments , in which national sovereignty would not be compromised . |
| 14 | The whole subject of the relation of sea levels to Pleistocene events is so confused and the possibility of new information being obtained by the botanical study of interglacial beds so important , that it is better to leave the question open at the moment . |
| 15 | Village hoardings are covered with adverts for Astra margarine — a product made of saturated fat so hard that it stays solid even in tropical heat . |
| 16 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |
| 17 | That crust of yellow butter so important to the true English potted meats and pastes as opposed to the Franglais and the factory-produced versions , does perhaps need a little more explanation than the late Major Connolly , who refers to it throughout his little work as " melted butter " , thought necessary to clarify . |
| 18 | But it is not clear that the declining overall effectiveness of the police and of criminal justice is because of internal failings so much as because of the overwhelming growth of work-load due to growing social and economic inequality coupled with moral deregulation . |
| 19 | The bare hills behind Agadir in the west are built of blue limestones so hard that they ring under the fossil-hunter 's hammer . |
| 20 | ( Why do some women find the murderers of other women so attractive ? ) |
| 21 | The ‘ Spinario ’ is clearly based on a genre figure , one of the studies of everyday life so popular in the later Hellenistic era , but his hair and features reflect fashions in Claudian portraiture . |