Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] as the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But it was not the face , or the manner which struck Wilson most so much as the lithesome body . |
| 2 | The Woodworm Years , a compilation from more recent recordings , has its moments , but not nearly so many as the 1970 House Full and Full House re-issues . |
| 3 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 4 | Of the bronze statuary , most beautiful was the 5½ inch high Hellenistic figure of a nude youth ( around late second or early first century BC ) , which sold to the European trade for $170,000 ( est. $40–60,000 ) , though nothing excited the crowd quite so much as the Roman porphyry . |
| 5 | Nothing raises hackles quite so much as the question of access to the countryside . |
| 6 | Nothing raises hackles quite so much as the question of access to the countryside . |
| 7 | Several other offences are included in the above regulations but are not quite so common as the offence outlined . |