Example sentences of "[noun] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular richness of the Mary Rose findings was not in the rare ‘ art ’ objects so much as in the wealth of objects used in everyday Tudor life . |
| 2 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 3 | I think Craven Arms , the thing Craven Arms actually want money so much as support . |
| 4 | The payoff is not in the end products so much as in the energy that can be tapped . |
| 5 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |
| 6 | However , it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented . |
| 7 | While a strict Freudian interpretation of the function of dreaming would not necessarily imply that it preserved sanity so much as sleep , the neo-Freudians had developed the notion that during dreams conflicts were resolved , giving dreams a purpose in maintaining psychic equilibrium . |
| 8 | None of that matters to Kenneth Arnold so much as the fact that he acted selflessly at a time when he was needed . |
| 9 | Finally , the concept was a formula for expressing the fact that , in our system , ‘ the principles of private law have … been by the action of the Courts and Parliament so extended as to determine the position of the Crown and of its servants ’ . |
| 10 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 11 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 12 | The painting is estimated at a mere FFr50–80 million , not because of the recession so much as the fact it must obviously stay in France . |
| 13 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 14 | He heard evidence from the newspaper which undermined the applicant 's evidence , and decided that there was not " a case so clear as to be beyond argument a case to answer " . |
| 15 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 16 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 17 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 18 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 19 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 20 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 21 | Ruth was shaking , not with fear so much as protest ; she 'd lost control of this situation . |
| 22 | In what follows I will not be proposing solutions so much as ways of working with these problems in relation to the study of crime and its correction . |
| 23 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 24 | I 've never felt the mystery of the future so much as here . |
| 25 | The recording catches the players rather forcefully , and the balance between guitar and string quartet is not always well managed : that is not the engineer 's fault so much as Boccherini 's who did not always judge texture as well as he might . |
| 26 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 27 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 28 | ‘ Dot so lovely as you might thick , whed there 's dobody to play od theb ! ’ |
| 29 | While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 30 | Our intention has not been to present any firm typology so much as to indicate the possibilities for variations in visionary style , and to map out some important dimensions of visionary leadership . |