Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 2 | If he just so much as tried to make her budge … |
| 3 | In addition there are constraints imposed by the Soviet economy itself : it is likely that , as Cole Blasier suggests , ‘ Soviet resources are still so limited as to discourage purely political use . |
| 4 | ‘ Or are you still so naïve as to believe that he just wanted a comforting kiss and a cuddle ? ’ |
| 5 | But nobody ever so much as hinted at the possibility that she might return . |
| 6 | I was terrifically embarrassed , but Karen did not once so much as glance in my direction , and after a while I began to suspect that she had made a mistake too . |
| 7 | Of the pole there is no sign , but it was originally so constructed as to act as a kind of lever in order to minimise jolting on rough surfaces . |
| 8 | The variety of management tasks is often so great as to warrant a task analysis with separate skills analyses of particular tasks or groups of tasks . |
| 9 | Burial and fossilization changes are often so extensive as to obscure the primary modifications which must be identified in order to understand the mechanisms of accumulation of the bones . |
| 10 | It says a great deal for this extraordinary organisation that it can inspire such dedication in children who , prior to joining the Horse Rangers , would never have even so much as patted a horse . |
| 11 | When the big day comes the Doom Diver prepares by strapping on his wings which he makes himself ( no Doom Diver trusts any other Goblin to make his wings and gets very angry if anyone else should even so much as touch them ) . |
| 12 | A local priest was even so bold as to call the system ‘ a home-brew democracy … . |
| 13 | There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked : |
| 14 | What is simultaneously acknowledged and denied is that ‘ wholesomeness ’ is not invaded from without so much as corrupted from within . |
| 15 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |
| 16 | " Though many ( candidates ) may have ample material they mar their chances by solecism , malapropisms , dreadful spelling and grammatical errors sometimes so gross as to obscure meaning " . |
| 17 | They were n't quite so stupid as to believe wholly their own propaganda . |
| 18 | Nothing had ever felt quite so right as finding herself in Nevil 's arms and being kissed by him . |
| 19 | Although much of the mapping is relatively straightforward to automate because it is rule based , there are exceptions and therefore the mapping in a real database application is not quite so straightforward as implied here . |
| 20 | There 's nothing quite so depressing as watching your tan fade along with the memories of that wonderful holiday . |
| 21 | From this standpoint it may be doubted whether the present image of nationalism is quite so unfavourable as has been claimed . |
| 22 | Finnis , on behalf of Aquinas , would doubtless be disposed to argue that Kelsen admits and he excludes any content whatever but if the general requirements of justice are indeed so indeterminate as to allow of even contradictory determinations then this objection falls . |
| 23 | When Harry Collyer joined Crystal Palace FC ours was a club that had not yet so much as played a 1st Division match in the Southern League . |
| 24 | Was it however so paradoxical as to have dealt a death blow to the theory ? |
| 25 | I do n't anyway , would n't care if I never so much as sniffed it again . |
| 26 | And now , even if you 've never so much as threaded a needle before , you can create beautiful items with the help of the new generation of computerised sewing machines from New Home . |
| 27 | He was invariably escorted by the SS Security Officer , and while the Nazi ogled her , the Dane never so much as looked her way . |
| 28 | Such a vision had never so much as crossed her mind . |
| 29 | She 'd never so much as set foot in a rowing boat ! |
| 30 | I stood leaning on the staff , grinning and throwing an arm in the air as he approached , but he and his companion never so much as looked as they sped back to Adrar . |