Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 2 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 3 | But this is not so impressive as it appears . |
| 4 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 5 | So it 's not so unbelievable as you think . ’ |
| 6 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 7 | not so easy as you think getting jobs |
| 8 | So , she thought , you are not so simple as you look . |
| 9 | And that 's not so daft as it seems you know . |
| 10 | GERMAN MEASLES is not so harmless as you think |
| 11 | GERMAN MEASLES is not so harmless as you think |
| 12 | Do you suppose I run a rooming house , or can it be you are not so innocent as you appear ? |
| 13 | This little old lady is not so innocent as she seems . |
| 14 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |
| 15 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 16 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 17 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 18 | Debussy 's answer to a journalist who asked if he was familiar with heaven — ‘ yes , but I do n't natter about it with strangers ’ - is not so silly as it sounds . |
| 19 | I 'm getting so expert with my chopsticks now that I can almost eat my soup with them — actually , that 's not so silly as it sounds , as the soup often contains large lumps of meat and veg . |
| 20 | In retrospect , wrote Ali in Street Fighting Years , ‘ it was not so bad as we thought ’ , but it ended up in the incinerator , rather than on the streets . |
| 21 | ‘ Tucker again ; Exeter , 4 January : Come if you can but it 's not so bad as it seemed . ’ |
| 22 | If the worst of it all , he often thought , ended in a place like this , then nothing was ever so bad as you pretended . |
| 23 | ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure . |
| 24 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 25 | You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected ! |
| 26 | Mr , er I as so far as I got , Not impossible for development to occur with these constraints . |
| 27 | His words indicated that he was n't so young as he looked , and she said , ‘ Very well . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ Or , at least it is n't so long as we avoid that bit of road . ’ |
| 29 | But it is n't so bad as it sounds , really it is n't . |
| 30 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |