Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] as they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |
| 4 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 5 | ‘ But clever though the cruel invaders were , they were not quite so clever as they believed . |
| 6 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 7 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 8 | By night the bars can get quite lively , although not quite so wild as they get during the winter months when the skiers reenact their greatest runs . |