Example sentences of "[prep] so [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 2 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 3 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
| 4 | He began attending evening classes in the Mechanics ' Institute and ‘ thereby developed the gifts of teaching and speaking , and habits of thought and reading , with so much success as to mark him out as one called of God ’ . |
| 5 | An anonymous seventeenth-century chorographer remarked : Robert Reyce described High Suffolk as ‘ Parts inclining to the east ’ where pasture ruled , the people ‘ contenting themselves onely with so much tillage as will satisfie their own expences ’ . |
| 6 | The Range Rover was crammed with so much food as they finally set off for Brides Haven that Leonora expressed doubt that the boat would carry it all . |
| 7 | There never was a time when so many could get about so quickly , comfortably , and with so little effort as we can now ( except when they were infants in arms ) . |
| 8 | It is particularly relevant to the present work , concerned with the role of precious substances as symbols of excellence , that is as objects of emulation , that Veblen should have specified ‘ precious stones and the metals and some other materials used for adornment and decoration ’ in so many words as being of outstanding ‘ utility as items of conspicuous waste ’ . |
| 9 | Janine Antoni gave a performance ( which took place on the opening night and can be viewed on video ) in which she immersed her hair in that inky mess familiar to so many women as hair-dye and proceeded to use her loaded as a floor mop , covering the surface of the gallery floor with the stuff . |
| 10 | But this is seen to be the reason why forces or energies are transferred or transmitted across what has continually been regarded by so many scientists as ‘ empty space ’ . |