Example sentences of "so [adj] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was , in the first place , a world not so much consisting of factories , employers and proletarians as one transformed by the enormous progress of its industrial sector . |
| 2 | Johnston and Pattie ( 1988 ) claim that people no longer vote so much according to their class , or social , position , but rather are increasingly referrent to their spatial location . |
| 3 | With so much riding on their personal success , they can feel under considerable pressure to aim for the top . |
| 4 | ‘ I just think it 's great to play in big game with so much riding on it , ’ he said . |
| 5 | With old people , the physical condition has so much bearing on the mental state . |
| 6 | All this is said so nonchalantly , with so much gazing across the water and into the cloudy sky , that a spectator might be convinced we really did bump into each other in our lunch break . |
| 7 | ‘ What you are saying is that I am not so much searching for Harry , rather , Harry is winding me in , like a fish on a line — ’ |
| 8 | We 're not so much looking to Wembley . |
| 9 | All too often , shrubs , including roses , conifers and the like , are planted not for their intrinsic beauty , not for an attractive combination of colour , but because they do not need so much looking after as plants that have to be lifted before the frost , and replanted fresh each year' . |
| 10 | She wondered if she would have let herself get involved had she known in advance that it entailed so much messing with entrails . |
| 11 | At the recent JANE 'S ADDICTION gig at The Marquee , people were not so much holding onto their ears as trying to stop their eyeballs standing out on stalks , so plenteous were the glittering celebs out to cheer the visiting Americans on . |
| 12 | There had never been so much ‘ In Years Gone By ’ copy set , or so much waiting to be set . |
| 13 | Skógafoss is a sixty-seven metre monster , so wide and so tall , and so much falling in a single sweep that clouds of spray are produced . |
| 14 | So you actually write down questions so much going on you ca n't be expected to remember everything and if you 've got just you know sort of questions written down the page like what is your name , it 's simple as that it gets you to do , what ? |
| 15 | There 's so much going for the self-contained freestanding format that we 've put our best designers to work on our range . |
| 16 | A school enjoying high status compared with its neighbours , located in a solid middle-class area , housed in relatively new buildings and already in receipt of other resources ( e.g. Technical and Vocational Education Initiative ( TVEI ) ) would be felt to have so much going for it already as to be less sympathetically considered than other schools . |
| 17 | She had so much going for her , why had she felt the urge to destroy herself ? |
| 18 | But I came to terms with all that because the house has so much going for it in other ways . |
| 19 | She says there 's so much going for it , especially for the young . |
| 20 | We 've got so much going through the big wire , put another little wire on as well . |
| 21 | Thus progression means not so much going from before to after , as from the more immediate to the more remote circumstances which impinge on the central character 's consciousness . |
| 22 | We are therefore not so much talking about a single meaning as a true one versus all the others which are false . |
| 23 | That 's why it was so great working with Freddie and the band ; there was always something unusual to work guitar into , and usually it was in some weird key as well . |
| 24 | It 's so irritating having to constantly stop and put your kagoul on , and then stop 40 seconds later to take it off again . |
| 25 | Do n't you remember the last time it was so beautiful going across across at home . |
| 26 | he 's going , so busy looking on what 's going on behind the question that 's being asked , that you never answer the question that you 're being asked in the first place . |
| 27 | I 'm not sure between her and Tony , Tony 's so busy looking into |
| 28 | They could go into the chapel , and the Adam library , and the red drawing-room , and with a bit of luck they 'd be so busy looking at the Chippendale and the Hepplewhite they would n't notice the holes in the rugs . ’ |
| 29 | You 're sometimes so busy looking at the wood that you do n't smell the trees are rotten . ’ |
| 30 | I was so busy looking at the coach . |