Example sentences of "nearly so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his evidence does not read to his discredit nearly so much as to the discredit of the committee . |
| 2 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 3 | It is clear from this , he said , that the connection between an insurer or insurance broker and his client is not nearly so firm as , for example , that between a solicitor and his client . |
| 4 | The Woodworm Years , a compilation from more recent recordings , has its moments , but not nearly so many as the 1970 House Full and Full House re-issues . |
| 5 | My m my memories not nearly so good as it was . |
| 6 | Overall , they are not nearly so trendy as articles about architecture which let the fortuitous effect of individual photographs lead the text into exaggeration and bombast . |
| 7 | Fishes ' ’ songs ' , one should note , do not seem to be nearly so complex as those of birds , perhaps reflecting their lower position on the scale of consciousness and intelligence . |
| 8 | You will find it is n't nearly so bad as you expected ! |
| 9 | Parker smoked and drank his beer and it was not nearly so bad as he had first supposed . |
| 10 | If training and competing were exacting , they were not nearly so exacting as plantation work . |
| 11 | The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter . |
| 12 | This description is not nearly so condescending as that produced by Hannah More . |
| 13 | Human beings he found , yet again , were not nearly so interesting as animals and besides , his bare legs had been stung by the nettles that grew thickly round the boathouse . |
| 14 | A bold statement , but not nearly so bold as Kingsley Amis , who admires Lonsdale 's whole project , and Leapor in particular . |