Example sentences of "[adv] [been] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 2 | If she had not been so fit as she is then I am convinced that she would have died . |
| 3 | The British Government have lagged in their support for events in Europe and have not been so enthusiastic as our European partners . |
| 4 | The Turkish forces , let's be clear about this , have used napalm against Kurdish villages inside the ‘ safe haven ’ which the rapidstrike force is supposedly on permanent red-alert to protect — yet there has n't been so much as a cheep from any of the elements who cheered the US-led forces into the Gulf War on the basis that regimes which defy international law and slaughter innocent people must be confronted , no matter what the cost . |
| 5 | I 've never been so indecisive as I am this time . |
| 6 | Whether it is viewed as a physical or metaphysical symbol , the image has never been so degraded as it is today . |
| 7 | In 1932 , for example , Mrs Q. D. Leavis had roundly condemned the cheapening and weakening influences of the popular press and popular novels which produced ‘ merely crude states of mind ’ and what she called ‘ the disintegration of the reading public ’ : ‘ The reading capacity of the general public , it must be concluded , has never been so low as at the present time . ’ |
| 8 | The need for effective communications , both with our members and others , has never been so great as in these times of significant change and development . |
| 9 | If is often said that as people get older they care less what other people think , but it has never been so true as in the last 25 years , when women who were brought up to propitiate the more powerful sex gradually realised that it was no longer necessary — or , at least , not always necessary — to do so . |
| 10 | Miss Fogerty had never been so happy as she was now , living with Dorothy and next door to another old friend , Isobel Shoosmith , who had been at college with her years before . |
| 11 | Tess had never been so happy as she was now , and perhaps never would be so again . |