Example sentences of "[pron] so [adj] [conj] [art] [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 . |
| 7 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 8 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |
| 9 | The present squeeze on resources of all kinds in CMEA economies has made them so taut that the short-term consequences of market-orientated measures ( inflation , unemployment ) are bound to be sharp and widespread . |
| 10 | HOW TO WRITE A LETTER to Feedback ( R4 ) , rule one : always be incandescent with rage about something so minor that a normal person would not even notice it , let alone write to complain . |
| 11 | It emphasizes that what is important is not the fecund earth-mother herself so much as the dependent relation of the child to her and to her nutritive , sustaining functions . |