Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mean it 's only fair it 's not we 're not talking about huge wages but for Gwynedd which is a low wage area they were reasonable and they worked for them too you know but but they were n't complaining about the money so much as the principle . |
| 2 | The most obvious moral interpretation of the assimilation of monk and merchant does not lie in the drawing down of the merchant to the level of the monk so much as in showing the monk to be transgressing the bounds of his special profession by entering into the commercial market place to procure a whore for himself . |
| 3 | The painting is estimated at a mere FFr50–80 million , not because of the recession so much as the fact it must obviously stay in France . |
| 4 | They also know how paranoid I am ; I 'll be on the phone if the monitor so much as flickers during a thunderstorm . |
| 5 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 6 | I 've never felt the mystery of the future so much as here . |
| 7 | More often , the establishment of a uniform language is not the motive so much as the result — and not invariably so — of national independence . |
| 8 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |
| 9 | The range of choices which are made available to the child may not be determined by the adult so much as by the nature of the interactions which are jointly established between adult and child . |
| 10 | It is not magic or superstition which is at the heart of the sacrilege so much as morality . ’ |
| 11 | The sentence is not related to the offence so much as whether the defendant is homeless , jobless , or has been the subject of a care order , and this is more likely to have happened to black youth . |
| 12 | The third section ( ‘ Palestine ’ ) does not conclude the novel so much as make explicit the narrative implications of what has happened so far . |
| 13 | Sign systems do not name the world so much as order it . |
| 14 | He heard evidence from the newspaper which undermined the applicant 's evidence , and decided that there was not " a case so clear as to be beyond argument a case to answer " . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 17 | 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 ? |
| 18 | In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " . |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | A passion so intense , a caring so complete as to make all other feeling insignificant . |
| 21 | A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The statement that ‘ Britain can not afford to go it alone ’ is usually presented as a matter of fact , as a point so strong as to be undebatable . |
| 24 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 25 | A Theme so low as Mira 's simple Song , |
| 26 | Flora , always spoilt , is never lonely — until at the last she has the frightening experience of seeing herself as one pair of hostile eyes saw her : the eyes of a person so ill-conditioned as to sent her an anonymous letter , and yet a painter of distinction . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | What is most wanted in a woman is gentleness ; formed to obey a creature so imperfect as man , a creature often vicious and always faulty , she should early learn to submit to injustice and to suffer the wrongs inflicted on her by her husband without complaint . |
| 29 | It was not a collection so much as a systematized compilation and its arrangement came to influence all further compilations of importance . |
| 30 | Giorgio Armani wears navy , beige and more navy — punctuated with the occasional white T-shirt — and he has built an empire on the principle that nothing becomes a woman so much as every shade of sludge on the mud flats . |