Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am not so naive as to expect a blinding flash of understanding , but bit by bit I think I am beginning to see patterns of behaviour , and even — in some cases — to recognise individuals . |
| 2 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 3 | I must admit I acted with the thought that I could interest you , that some attention would not be unwelcome — I hope I am not so insensitive as to force my company on anyone without some indication on their part — and there was interest , was n't there ? |
| 4 | Do you suppose I run a rooming house , or can it be you are not so innocent as you appear ? |
| 5 | The French are not so polite as they were 15 years ago . |
| 6 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |
| 7 | ‘ Children are not so serious as grown-ups and they love to laugh . ’ |
| 8 | He denies his readers the pleasure of feeling superior , too : they must come to terms with Sylvia and her kind , who are not so rare as is commonly supposed , and a novel is a good place in which to begin the process . |
| 9 | Figures on sepulchral monuments sporting shrouds in place of customary day dress are not so rare as those depicted on memorial brasses . |
| 10 | Except that the Brits here are not so straightforward as we are , and might hang Papa for giving Havvie what he so richly deserves . |
| 11 | So , she thought , you are not so simple as you look . |
| 12 | This not only serves to give the issues all the appearance of being fundamental and crucial , but also conceals the fact that matters are not so simple as to be accurately captured by such a dualistic portrayal . |
| 13 | All men even if they are not so fortunate as to be scientists or artists have still within them the capability to transform their lives into ones of creativity . |
| 14 | The farmhouses are not so many as they were forty years ago by three fourths … |
| 15 | These two extremes are not so contradictory as they might seem . |
| 16 | These procedures can detect the disease , but they are not so accurate as the macroscopic study of a surgical specimen in determining the pattern and extension of the tumour . |
| 17 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 18 | It is comforting that requirements of condition are not so exacting as in the printed book world . |
| 19 | His speeds are not so driven as Rattle 's , the energy level is lower ; but there is a clearer sense of the cunning in the music . |
| 20 | Here the smaller aperture and higher magnification means that the images are not so bright as in the former pairs , and the field is smaller still . |
| 21 | Methods however are not so important as outcome . |
| 22 | Inside , the two-aisled , hall church is vaulted and covered by paintings , but these are not so fine as those at Lohja and Hattula . |
| 23 | County council officials have already gone on record as saying the humps are not so severe as to pose a major problem for the buses . |
| 24 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 25 | You really are not so handsome as you promised to be ; and I have long wished , by conversation like this , to do away what mischief the flattering character I gave of you may expose you to . |
| 26 | Also , it will show that we are not so parochial as to be concerned only with money and the minutiae of City affairs . |
| 27 | This means , of course , that the advantages against the sceptic are not so dramatic as was claimed . |
| 28 | In the first instance , Soviet military thinkers are not so ready as their modern Western counterparts to adopt the view that military imbalance is the primary cause of war . |
| 29 | Hard hitting criticism and savage satire can generally be successfully defended as honest comment , so long as the exaggerations are not so extreme as to indicate malice . |
| 30 | They may consider that many forms of non-consensual sexual intercourse are not so grave as to be labelled rape . |