Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 2 | But it was not the face , or the manner which struck Wilson most so much as the lithesome body . |
| 3 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 4 | Much better to get involved with someone who had plunged fully into the sea of life than with someone who had stood wimpishly on the edge , afraid to dip in so much as a toe . |
| 5 | ‘ — and I was placed between Harry Burrows and Piers Langley and they told me all about hunting round here and really it was so interesting that I hardly noticed what we ate , some sort of fish and pheasant I think and , oh yes , there was an ice but by that stage , you know , I did n't have the smallest corner to put in so much as a mouthful — ’ |
| 6 | I know we crea we 've created the stand up between them in so much as s she blames for what 's happened t to her . |
| 7 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 8 | Wolverton , which had been the seat of the locomotive building industry for the L & B Railway was no longer so convenient as when the northern terminus was at Birmingham . |
| 9 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 10 | If he just so much as tried to make her budge … |
| 11 | But it 's just so sexual as well , you know , for children from four upwards , I just think it 's really bad . |
| 12 | The ride followed by Marian and Allen , although not so broad as the main Highway , was lighter because the trees that flanked it , being for the most part giant oaks , had quelled the subordinate vegetation and left airy vistas between their trunks . |
| 13 | ‘ Not so fantastic as you might think , ’ said Melissa . |
| 14 | not so tall as all that |
| 15 | All of which goes to show that masculine reason and logic are perhaps not so strong as you may have supposed . |
| 16 | One might think that clause 2 is insufficient : to believe that p is not so strong as to be certain that p , and to know one must be certain , not just believe . |
| 17 | If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes . |
| 18 | Maize pollen is not so resilient as its phytoliths , but New Mexico is drier than Panama , and pollen survives well there . |
| 19 | There was the contact with friendly adults , but not so close as to suggest to the children that their real parents were being supplanted — a common resentment in foster homes . |
| 20 | ‘ Children are not so serious as grown-ups and they love to laugh . ’ |
| 21 | The potential anarchy and irresponsible policy deviation of this situation — where the local bullies and barons of federal funding set the agenda is not so apparent as might seem however . |
| 22 | The need for them is not so apparent as for the other S's , however for long term survival they all play a vital role . |
| 23 | I know it 's a lot to ask , but I 'm not so black as I once was , you know . |
| 24 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 25 | A sense of the incongruity of things is not so unimportant as some people think . |
| 26 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 27 | The ‘ teacher ’ was one of the younger army wives — not so classy as Mrs Goreng but not bad . |
| 28 | She chose a slightly flared skirt of fawn flannel , plain white silk shirt with a demurely high neckline , a jacket in soft pastel-brown tweed with a standing collar , absolutely plain but very expensive Italian court shoes and a matching handbag that was small enough to be ladylike but not so small as to seem frivolous . |
| 29 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 30 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |