Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's not him so much as the people he represents . |
| 2 | Hardly anything so grand as horology I expect you 're thinking . |
| 3 | She used to ask my mother too , endlessly attempting to work upon her soft-heartedness , whenever she so much as had a headache . |
| 4 | Even one so buttoned-down as Senator Al Gore trembles to consider that if he made a full-out run at Pennsylvania Avenue , every part of his private life would be scrutinized for the sort of improprieties that cause lips to purse out on the Plains . |
| 5 | So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’ |
| 6 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |