Example sentences of "[noun] so [adj] [conj] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One must stand in awe of the scientist so Promethean that a single obscenity is all that is needed to clarify and educate . |
| 2 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 3 | Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners . |
| 4 | ‘ Mandy , she 's not a bad person so much as a sick one . |
| 5 | It was not a collection so much as a systematized compilation and its arrangement came to influence all further compilations of importance . |
| 6 | Bomb hoax — placing imitation bomb in shop — whether offence so serious that a non-custodial sentence for it can not be justified |
| 7 | Such conditions could occur in a very big hydrogen bomb : the physicist John Wheeler once calculated that if one took all the heavy water in all the oceans of the world , one could build a hydrogen bomb that would compress matter at the center so much that a black hole would be created . |
| 8 | Ruth was silent , gripping the phone in both hands so hard that a dull ache started up . |
| 9 | If the money is available fitted carpets are a good investment , particularly those that are patterned in a mid-shade of the colour most favoured by the elderly person , as this will not show either marks or dust so much as a plain light- or dark-coloured carpet does . |
| 10 | With Maisie still keeping the regulation distance between the two of them , he almost ran after the headmaster , swinging his arms crazily and taking strides so long that a casual observer might have been forgiven for assuming that he , too , was practising the art of Islamic dancing . |