Example sentences of "[pron] so [adj] [conj] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't give me so much as a glance . |
| 2 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
| 3 | The two basic amino-terminal α-helices sit in the major groove so that they are perpendicular to one another on opposite sides of the DNA duplex ; they resemble nothing so much as a pair of short chopsticks . |
| 4 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 5 | ITALIAN political life has recently resembled nothing so much as a scene from Goethe 's poem The Sorcerer 's Apprentice . |
| 6 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 7 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 8 | But when she quickly added a white lace fichu and a long , lacy shawl , the effect reminded her of nothing so much as the icing on her daughter 's wedding cake . |
| 9 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 10 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 11 | Are you so inviolable that no man might dare to venture near ? ’ |
| 12 | But are they so important that the teachers should not be expected to know about technical and vocational education , about an important part , in other words , of the education service towards which many of their pupils will , in time , be moving ? |
| 13 | The very suggestion pained her so much because the company appeared uncaring and tough ; she therefore denied that such a thing could possibly have occurred . |
| 14 | When Charlotte , ‘ a delicate and capable young person ’ , was caught travelling on the Underground without a ticket , it was not the 3s 6d fine that bothered her so much as the magistrate 's warning that , in consequence , her application for naturalisation might be rejected . |
| 15 | When Arthur was sound again , I had Countryman and Lannegan , and somehow I did n't enjoy riding him so much because every time he jumped , I was afraid he 'd be lame . |
| 16 | But whatever you do , do n't give him so much as a cough sweet ! ’ |
| 17 | Well , he did n't mention Niki , he did n't congratulate him , embrace him , he did n't hand him so much as a crumb . |
| 18 | He 'd once thought of asking one of the Venetz sisters out , but they were pretty well inseparable ; a turndown did n't worry him so much as the prospect of being accepted by one and so giving offence to the other . |
| 19 | ‘ It 's not him so much as the people he represents . |
| 20 | How much longer could she go on saying no when her body was alive with a hunger for him so deep that every pulse of her blood screamed yes ? |
| 21 | The inevitable clear soup followed ( pot au feu this time ) ; the sole was served in a delicate sauce almost imperceptibly flavoured with cheese , and the dean 's daughter appreciated it so much that the Colonel 's initial peevishness began to wear off . |
| 22 | ‘ By the way , ’ she began , hardly able to credit that , when earlier that morning her car had been such a concern to her , great expanses of time should now elapse without her giving it so much as a thought , ‘ could you tell me the name of the garage where my car — ’ |
| 23 | Many women are unable to get beyond this sequence , finding It so graphic that the act of watching it becomes close to an act of violation in itself . |
| 24 | I understand — the actor talks to a non-existent character , or even a dog , on the stage , and he makes it so real that the audience sees it , you actually see Gabriel . |
| 25 | It 's it makes it so easy that the staff , one ca n't dress any better than the other . |
| 26 | It was in the pain that she found their love and tested it and found it so true that the bond would never break . |
| 27 | I had hoped that the facts would make themselves so apparent that the motive could emerge in its own good time — but it 's not looking that way at all . |