Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
| 2 | Thus his erotic imagining of the usurping male is not the eruption of repressed homosexual desire so much as the fantasized , fearful convergence of identification and desire , precipitated by an actual convergence of their respective objects . |
| 3 | this frog so interesting as I inspect its most secret |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | What is required in such a scenario is an insurrectionary appropriation so radical as to be also necessarily perverse : Fanon uses Hegel , Freud , and Sartre but in each case simultaneously contests and perverts fundamental principles of their thought . |
| 6 | This comes as no news to anyone who has ever tried to render into English verse so much as a strophe of Horace . |
| 7 | He knew that boys of twelve did not have French tests so important as to prevent their seeing their fathers . |
| 8 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 9 | 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 " . |
| 10 | He had added to the crumbs of education thrown to him by his father an ambition of his own focused on Samavia — not , to him , a real place so much as a symbol of satisfying large issues to take him out of a drab world . |
| 11 | However , once you understand what the lace carriage does you will realise that it is n't a separate mechanism so much as a supplement to your knitting carriage . |
| 12 | At the same time , and as we have already seen , ‘ homophobia ’ is an inadequate term to describe all this since what is at issue is not personal phobia so much as the recurrence in mutated form of structures integral to cultural identity and social formation . |
| 13 | For , as we noted , the association of particular accents ( realized by proportions of phonological variables ) with particular social or geographical communities is generally not part of an intentional message ( Labov ( 1972a ) argues that such variables are only very partially under conscious control ) , nor are such social significances associated with linguistic forms by arbitrary synchronic convention so much as by regular historical and social process . |
| 14 | " If you give that little rat so much as a teaspoonful you 're the one who 'll know all about it when she soars into the air with buck , lep and kick . |
| 15 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 16 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 17 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 18 | ‘ But once the authorities had clamped down , it was not a case of political Stalinism so much as bureaucratic perfidy and complete lack of imagination . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The explanation for such divergent viewpoints may lie not in Osred 's reign as a particularly inauspicious period so much as in the dynastic rivalries of this time , accompanied by a failure to sustain Aldfrith 's silver coinage under Osred or his immediate successors . |
| 24 | Even those committees so bold as to demand to see papers and witnesses are unlikely to receive the cooperation they require . |
| 25 | On its own terms , his argument is virtually irrefutable : since grandeur was not a definable objective so much as a means of keeping the flame of national ambition alight , it could never really fail . |
| 26 | At the same time , successive items on the test do not measure changes in a child 's linguistic ability so much as the development of conceptual abilities which underlie the acquisition of abstract vocabulary items . |
| 27 | By this I do n't mean the need for physical help and practical advice so much as the longing for emotional reconciliation , a bonding with her . ’ |
| 28 | Seldom is polar vegetation so lush as subpolar or temperate vegetation , nor its productivity per hectare so high ; arctic tundra , at first glance green and meadow-like , is often the thinnest of carpets with bare rocks and shingle showing through . |
| 29 | Not for professional historians so much as for people who really did want to have a version of England 's past which makes some sense sort of sense now . |
| 30 | Yet preparation is not always a case of in-depth research so much as systematically thinking through what may be faced in the real life negotiating position . |