Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The particular richness of the Mary Rose findings was not in the rare ‘ art ’ objects so much as in the wealth of objects used in everyday Tudor life . |
| 2 | The payoff is not in the end products so much as in the energy that can be tapped . |
| 3 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 4 | As one is encouraged to endorse broad humanitarian concerns , one is also expected to respond not so much to specific songs or artists so much as to generic types of music . |
| 5 | But it was not his opinions so much as their force of expression that caused his hearers to stare at him in awe on these occasions . |
| 6 | ‘ My dear deluded child , ’ said Gay , who had a disconcerting habit of answering , not one 's words so much as the thought which had prompted them , ‘ you do n't imagine we 're wrestling with the torments of jealousy , do you ? |
| 7 | Not the words so much as the culture which produces them . |
| 8 | In what follows I will not be proposing solutions so much as ways of working with these problems in relation to the study of crime and its correction . |
| 9 | They said of Dr Barnard that from fragments so minuscule as almost to deceive a magnifying glass he could reconstitute a bomb to the point of identifying the factory that made its components and the man who assembled it . |
| 10 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 11 | All the children have had measles , all five , you can not imagine what hard work it is , day and night and their poor eyes so sore as well as the rash and the fever . |
| 12 | We can accept the possibility that reception of cultural products is not always as passive as Adorno suggests , that it is often class-differentiated , that consuming subjects are not necessarily unitary conformists so much as sites traversed by conflicting interpretative schemas . |
| 13 | And where Freud has been integrated with , with the social sciences , interestingly enough , what 's been integrated is not the black books so much as Freud 's writings on child development and other issues , apart from those in these books . |
| 14 | She can write lines so strong as to be almost terrifying … |
| 15 | Each party 's entitlement of seats should be proportionate to its share of the total constituency votes received by candidates of all parties , and it would be met by the award ( if necessary ) of a number of additional seats so calculated as to " redress the distorted results in the constituencies " . |
| 16 | This is that the policy was not an attack on the universities so much as a defence of their interests — whether or not correctly understood by officials and ministers . |
| 17 | But it is not clear that the declining overall effectiveness of the police and of criminal justice is because of internal failings so much as because of the overwhelming growth of work-load due to growing social and economic inequality coupled with moral deregulation . |
| 18 | But ideas so uncompromising as this could hardly be voiced , at least on the eastern shores of the Atlantic , until after the French Revolution had broken out . |
| 19 | Nothing improves plants so much as a pleasant setting — I have a large lump of tufa , a porous limestone rock , planted up with saxifrages , as a centre piece in one of my arid corners . |
| 20 | Even those committees so bold as to demand to see papers and witnesses are unlikely to receive the cooperation they require . |
| 21 | The mothers ' courage in going it alone does n't seem to draw on any new feelings so much as old ones . |
| 22 | But predictive judgments about ability to comply are founded not upon some dispassionate analysis of economic facts and figures so much as upon characterizations of a discharger 's know-how and willingness to comply , derived from his occupation , size , experience , and reputation . |
| 23 | This would leave a difficult boundary for patients with learning difficulties so profound as to require treatment in a hospital or specialist residential home , the former being free and the latter funded by social services and means tested . |
| 24 | He used to be 100% sure of what was needed … but not only the defensive problems … things so obvious as using Deane and Whelan when he should be using Deane/Wallace . |
| 25 | He had moreover , unlike Boethius , had the experience of seeing what Viking pirates did to his defenceless subjects ; and again unlike Boethius had taken such drastic measures against evil as hanging Viking prisoners , and rebellious monks , and in all probability cutting the throats of any wounded pirates so unlucky as to be left on the battlefield . |
| 26 | And something else I learnt in Saint-Jean is that where there is one superior restaurant there will be other good ones , not rivals so much as supporters ; this in my experience is a particularly good town to dine in . |
| 27 | It is mentioned here because encounters with such forms of suffering may distress practitioners so much as to block off their own capacity to deal sensitively and effectively with the people concerned . |
| 28 | The issues on which the schism turned have often seemed to Western scholars so insignificant as to be almost laughable . |
| 29 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 30 | But what aroused resentment from people in the film industry had nothing to do with the merits of these films , which critic Raymond Durgnat reasonably characterized as ‘ sub-Ealing comedies so timid as to be positively ingratiating , ’ nor the production programme 's lack of profitability . |