Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | A person or persons ( draughtsman , craftsman , or apprentice ) who worked at Leicester could have worked in the west country , but nowhere in the Leicester mosaics is their evidence for work so unaccomplished as that of the Gloucester pavement . |
| 2 | A principal medium of transgressive reinscription is fantasy — but again , not the fantasy of transcendence so much as the inherently perverse , transgressive reordering of fantasy 's conventional opposite , the mundane . |
| 3 | Finally , though , because his style resembles not a force of nature so much as a medium of measurement or response ( response to pressure , atmospheric pressure ) , I settle on something less personal : Barometer Barnes . |
| 4 | Only the feeling of mute resistance , the chill sense of acquiescence so grudging as to give pain . |
| 5 | Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy … |
| 6 | The fact that one has a clear conscience is not always a sign of right responses to the trials and temptations of life so much as an appropriate response to sin and guilt . |
| 7 | Occasionally , and this was such an occasion , Elisabeth Danziger experienced a feeling of disorientation so powerful as to render her environment totally unfamiliar . |
| 8 | There is no form of advertising so valuable as word of mouth . |
| 9 | Although such an incestuous fixation usually means genital inhibition for the individual in adult life , resulting either in perversion or neurosis or both and invariably in some unhappiness , incest in itself does not threaten the foundations of culture so much as the consequent erotic and aggressive antagonism to which it gives rise . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Ruth was shaking , not with fear so much as protest ; she 'd lost control of this situation . |
| 12 | He did not take his readers back into history so much as bring Thomas Paine , William Hazlitt , Sir Arthur Conan Doyle , Sir Walter Scott [ qq.v. ] , and others forward , as if they had suddenly walked in from the street . |
| 13 | The values of the ruling class were essentially military , and war was not incidental to life so much as its raison d'etre . |
| 14 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |