Example sentences of "[is] [pron] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | There 's nothing so lonely as unemployment , even if you 're on a queue with a thousand others . |
| 2 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 3 | ‘ There is nothing so fascinating as other people 's disputes . ’ |
| 4 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 5 | — Of all the creatures in the ocean , there 's none so terrible as … — ; |
| 6 | Nick , Salli and Steve : there 's none so queer as Suffolk … |
| 7 | There 's none so queer as Suffolk , as follicle-flowing grind merchants and Bury boys JACOB 'S MOUSE have discovered in their illustrious nine-year history since meeting at a swimming gala , aged 11 . |
| 8 | It is the essential inner spirit of the earth here — immemorial and profoundly mystical — and nowhere is it so potent as upon the edges of these curious chalk pits . |
| 9 | THERE 's nowt so queer as folk . |