Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I think Craven Arms , the thing Craven Arms actually want money so much as support . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | However , it is not necessarily the immediate reply which influences decision so much as the well-considered facts succinctly presented . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ’ . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | However , it he takes as souvenir so much as a blade of grass the entrance to this charming kingdom will close forever more . |
| 11 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 12 | I do n't know if it 's fear so much as a matter of getting along with objects better than people . |
| 13 | Ruth was shaking , not with fear so much as protest ; she 'd lost control of this situation . |
| 14 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 15 | I 've never felt the mystery of the future so much as here . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | ‘ Dot so lovely as you might thick , whed there 's dobody to play od theb ! ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 22 | She says that her concern is not with raising consciousness so much as approximating , in performance , to the public turmoil and private suffering caused by Aids . |
| 23 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |
| 24 | In 1911 , the year in which their intimacy was at its greatest and their work so close as to be often almost indistinguishable , Picasso and Braque spent the summer months together at Céret , in the Pyrenees . |
| 25 | A person or persons ( draughtsman , craftsman , or apprentice ) who worked at Leicester could have worked in the west country , but nowhere in the Leicester mosaics is their evidence for work so unaccomplished as that of the Gloucester pavement . |
| 26 | A passion so intense , a caring so complete as to make all other feeling insignificant . |
| 27 | On an issue so important as that of the death penalty I feel that the House is entitled to expect a lead from the Government ; we fail in our duty unless we give the view of those responsible for maintaining law and security for the citizens . |
| 28 | A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting . |
| 29 | In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " . |
| 30 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |