Example sentences of "[pron] so [adj] [subord] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She closed her eyes theatrically , and resembled nothing so much as a reigning prima donna who is being pestered by her producer to act . |
| 2 | Even so , I was looking forward to nothing so much as a long hot soak in the bath . |
| 3 | Astonishing is a bureau-bookcase of the 1760s , by which time the cool winds of classicism had tamed Piffetti 's rococo ardour , where the marquetry resembles nothing so much as a stylish product of Parisian 1930s Art-Deco . |
| 4 | The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin . |
| 5 | There was a dining-room , which he said he never used , on the north side of the house , and another room which resembled nothing so much as a second-hand bookshop ; a chaos of books — shelves of books , stacks of books , piles of magazines and newspapers , and one large and evidently newly arrived parcel that lay unopened on a desk by the window . |
| 6 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |