Example sentences of "[vb -s] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 2 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 3 | it 's back again to the old fashioned set , I mean I think nothing looks so untidy as to joined writing |
| 4 | There is nothing a woman wants so much as to be in love , and the odds are very much against two ‘ right ’ people ever finding each other . |
| 5 | There is nothing the House loves so much as a personal attack , involving a personal explanation . |
| 6 | And in a game nothing matters so much as the spirit in which it is played . |
| 7 | it is not just what motivates so much as what motivates and how it might be achieved . |
| 8 | Musically this is very nearly correct , but not one recording includes so much as a single word of Gilbert 's spoken dialogue . |
| 9 | She knows that even something that seems so simple as giving a wash has to be thought about and done in a sensitive way . |
| 10 | ‘ Of course , ’ said Pooley , ‘ it is conceivable that it was the work of some servant or ex-servant with a grudge against the committee , but it seems so unlikely as to be hardly worth considering . |
| 11 | In its brief comments on the securitisation of revolving assets , the ASB is proposing a framework that is likely to render the securitisation of credit card balances so onerous as to be unworkable . |
| 12 | No commercially-made version gives so much as a hint of its true nature . ) |
| 13 | The tragedy of the whole affair becomes so pathetic as we realise that Coleen does love him and only a delay of post cost him his life . |
| 14 | Due to the variety of natural forms there is a tendency to introduce more and more subdivisions until the classification becomes so unwieldy as to be useless . |
| 15 | Such an agency generates a repulsive force which eventually becomes so strong as to halt the contraction of the object and to make it ‘ bounce ’ . |
| 16 | Add to them the cohorts of civil servants patiently drafting and redrafting sackfuls of international Green verbiage , and whole planeloads of whingeing journalists and television crews , and the whole shebang becomes so big as to overwhelm the senses of the vast majority of the aboriginal citizens of Planet Earth . |
| 17 | That is not to say it is the recommended method , once you have started the latch tool method of working ribs it becomes so fast as to make you wonder why you did n't try it before . |
| 18 | One reviewer of the present state of the debate ( J. L. Marx 1980 ) ably summarises all the points of failing in the collection of data and their interpretation , but makes so bold as to write : |