Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 31 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 32 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 33 | However , one attempt to test the extent of misreporting ( Martin/Butcher , 1982 ) found that , in general , it was not so great as to be a cause for concern . |
| 34 | So the man is not so great as his art ? |
| 35 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 36 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |
| 37 | However , they 're not so stupid as to allow the adventurers to forge such a document right in front of them and get away with it . |
| 38 | In marginal cases , the court will have to be convinced that a substantially limiting disability exists but that , as a result , the individual is not so disabled as to be unable to perform the job in question . |
| 39 | The symbol of race , however , was not so unambiguous as the symbol of communism . |
| 40 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 41 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |
| 42 | She is young but not so young as Chela , who says she is 18 but looks 16 at the most . |
| 43 | Not so young as I had thought |
| 44 | " I " m not so young as I used to was " is wrong , except that when Somerset Maughan makes a Cockney landlady say it , it makes perfectly good sense . |
| 45 | ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me . |
| 46 | In fact the staff student ratios of the early 1980s are not much different from the pre-expansion figures , though they are generally not so good as in Britain or the US . |
| 47 | been organized , in many instances , on the same principles as the factory or office production line , and ’ … staffed by serried ranks of detail workers whose pay scales , if they are better than those of factory operatives or clerical workers , are perhaps not so good as those of craftsmen , and who dispose of little more working independence and authority than the production worker . |
| 48 | ‘ NOT SO good as ‘ Charming Man ’ say some , but I 'd say better . |
| 49 | I enjoyed all my years at Primary School although some events were not so good as others . |
| 50 | Although this is not so good as the quick sponge or madeira cake for cutting and shaping , it is ideal for the simpler shaped fantasy cakes and its advantage over the quick sponge is that it is lighter . |
| 51 | ‘ If you 'll pardon the correction , not so much as a million , ’ said one of the lady lodgers . |
| 52 | They had n't been hurt , not so much as a graze on them , yet when the all-clear sounded , they came out of their buildings and stood on their street with blank eyes that seemed to stare inwards . |
| 53 | Under cover of buying a magazine from the stall opposite , Isabel glanced over , and then stared more persistently , for he had not seen her , was not so much as looking up from his counting . |
| 54 | Doctor Tinsley , my old medical man , absolutely forbade me to lift any kind of weight , not so much as a shopping basket . ’ |
| 55 | I have gone through this procedure in some detail , not so much as a practical guide as to how to make the arrangements , but to demonstrate how much practical activity surrounds someone 's death . |
| 56 | But by this time the Crown was assessing the royal forests , not so much as hunting preserves but as sources of timber , especially for ship-building . |
| 57 | They did not so much as consider that their physical safety could be at risk . |
| 58 | For there grow no Trees , no not so much as a Shrub on St. Kilda ’ . |
| 59 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 60 | In this context , regulations were , in the main , perceived not so much as serving the public interest but as representing ‘ capture ’ of the economic system by specific groups serving their own self-interest , reducing economic welfare and inhibiting economic development . |