Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | This increasingly comes to resemble nothing so much as Sartre 's own account of History . |
| 2 | The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units . |
| 3 | The profusion of newer universities have taken to offering franchised versions of their courses at further education colleges , while breaking with the tradition that it was unbecoming for a university to do anything so crass as advertising its wares . |
| 4 | This was an ordeal which , like all others , would eventually end and although she had made up her mind to suffer it , nothing obliged her to accord it so much as one shred of thought ; or memory . |
| 5 | It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets . |
| 6 | The fundamental original units that we need to postulate , in order to understand the coming into existence of everything , either consist of literally nothing ( according to some physicists ) , or ( according to other physicists ) they are units of the utmost simplicity , far too simple to need anything so grand as deliberate Creation . |
| 7 | With a joy to his flight that evidently surprised and alarmed them he turned and stooped towards them at speed , not to attack them so much as show them that he was a golden eagle and could fly where he pleased . |
| 8 | The court was adamant in its rejection of fanciful interpretations of the clause so as to make it so wide as to be unreasonable . |