Example sentences of "[adv] so great as " in BNC.

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1 His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation .
2 In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 So the man is not so great as his art ?
6 " 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 .
7 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 .
8 The variety of management tasks is often so great as to warrant a task analysis with separate skills analyses of particular tasks or groups of tasks .
9 prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops .
10 When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus .
11 He corrected an error in Riemann 's work and showed by an ingenious example that the scope of the new theory was not quite so great as some had claimed .
12 By contrast equatorial forests lack extreme seasonal variation ; where productivity varies little during the year the resource fluctuations are never so great as in savannah or temperate regions .
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