Example sentences of "[noun] so [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think Craven Arms , the thing Craven Arms actually want money so much as support . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ’ . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 7 | Ruth was shaking , not with fear so much as protest ; she 'd lost control of this situation . |
| 8 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 9 | 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 ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | A passion so intense , a caring so complete as to make all other feeling insignificant . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 16 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 17 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 18 | Even those committees so bold as to demand to see papers and witnesses are unlikely to receive the cooperation they require . |
| 19 | Only the feeling of mute resistance , the chill sense of acquiescence so grudging as to give pain . |
| 20 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |
| 21 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 22 | We are not concerned with any bridges being built in South Africa so much as ensuring that our own are not destroyed . |
| 23 | A multiplicity of small early termini was replaced in 1914 by Tokyo Central , a station so vast as to vie with Howrah in Calcutta , though other mainline termini , Ueno and Shinjuku , survived . |
| 24 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 25 | But selectivity so planned as to celebrate randomness . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ If Sugar so much as points a finger in our direction , I 'll snap it off . ’ |
| 29 | But Summers , anxious to keep the former Argentinian international at The Hawthorns , is quoted as saying : ‘ If Sugar so much as points a finger in our direction , I 'll snap it off . |
| 30 | 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 . |