Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blow , blow thou Winter wynd , thou wert not so unkind as man 's ingratitude ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 4 | I enjoyed all my years at Primary School although some events were not so good as others . |
| 5 | Yet even the gashes were not so ugly as the expensive boat that had caused them . |
| 6 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 7 | In those days , children were not so sheltered as now from the pressures of adult life , and the exploitation of child prodigies for material gain was not frowned upon . |
| 8 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 9 | They were not so big as to require steam lifting machinery and powered saws . |
| 10 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |
| 11 | ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure . |
| 12 | So maybe that 's kept us going when the times were n't so good as they might be . |
| 13 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |
| 14 | The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck . |
| 15 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |
| 16 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 17 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 18 | However , one attempt to test the extent of misreporting ( Martin/Butcher , 1982 ) found that , in general , it was not so great as to be a cause for concern . |
| 19 | Under cover of buying a magazine from the stall opposite , Isabel glanced over , and then stared more persistently , for he had not seen her , was not so much as looking up from his counting . |
| 20 | The French Dragoons crossed the frontier with drawn swords , but the weapons served no purpose other than to dignify the moment with a suitable melodrama , for there was not so much as a single Dutch customs officer to oppose the invasion . |
| 21 | ‘ The actual loss of merchandise was not so much as to be catastrophic . |
| 22 | And , erm , so this , it was , in a sense it was not so much as what was repressed in his ears , the structure of his ego that led to this unfortunate consequence . |
| 23 | A further protest rose to her lips , but , since she had other more important matters to think about , she obligingly went and placed her foot on the ledge and , raising her trouser leg a little , allowed him to study her beige cotton sock where there was not so much as a broken thread . |
| 24 | In fact , Ceauşescu was not so macabre as to plan to live in his own tomb . |
| 25 | Many women died in childbirth , but it was not so dangerous as the warlike pursuits of the men-folk . |
| 26 | The symbol of race , however , was not so unambiguous as the symbol of communism . |
| 27 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |
| 28 | Wesleyan support , as the Spectator observed in 1897 , ‘ was not so extensive as outsiders might gather from some inside declarations ’ . |
| 29 | In any case , his use of search was not so extensive as to merit using a large number of firms . |
| 30 | This was not so wide as the first one had been , and she bridged it safely . |