Example sentences of "[adj] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps some of your problems are not technical so much as aesthetic . |
| 2 | Each pane has eight pairs of tiny glass oblongs set in lead , each so dirty as to be practically useless . |
| 3 | And suppose he can obtain his desire , is that so bad as cutting her throat ? |
| 4 | He may be shy at first , but after a while he will get over that : he is not half so shy as he was , of course not . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not half so keen as she is — she 's absolutely dedicated . |
| 6 | Mammoth 's not half so good as either . ’ |
| 7 | Are half so lovely as my Father 's Field , |
| 8 | He 'd faced foxes , he 'd helped to drive the Truck , he 'd flown on a goose — but none of them was half so bad as letting a human being actually touch him . |
| 9 | There 's a lot of erm , conflicting ideas about using Abbey 's rate book and , and you might look very confusing in itself , but actually it 's not half so bad as it seems . |
| 10 | ’ Not half so wild as that one upstairs , ’ came the tart response . |
| 11 | Nor the white Hawthorn half so fair as he ; |
| 12 | I would n't be embarrassed so much as angry . |
| 13 | The acceptance of discipline is probably the greatest step towards freedom a man can take , and nowhere is this so true as in smallholding . |
| 14 | It is n't that his pleasure in masculinity is suspect so much as that all that sensuous attention tells us something else about the cult of masculinity among men . |
| 15 | His face bore the marks of much , not always peaceful meditation ; the look of it not bland or benevolent so much as close impregnable and hard . |
| 16 | One of the distinctions between these two works is that Veblen 's goal is more limited ; he is not concerned with consumption in general so much as a specific type of consumption which was of particular importance in the period during which he was writing , a period which may be seen as marking the transition to the age of mass consumption . |
| 17 | To cut a long story short , they did rejoin us at lunch-time , De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty . |
| 18 | It 's no longer so unusual as it once was to discuss openly , in certain forums , the advantages ( and heavenly bliss ! ) of safer sex . |
| 19 | African so much as African vs . |
| 20 | You do not feel competitive so much as creative and co-operative . |
| 21 | NOTHING characterised the late 1980s so much as the short skirt . |
| 22 | NOTHING characterised the late 1980s so much as the short skirt . |
| 23 | This , however , would not be positive so much as negative reinforcement , ie it was nice when the pressure stopped . |