Example sentences of "[indef pn] so [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 2 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 3 | The grey ovoid , some distance away , expanded and contracted in a movement which reminded Ace of nothing so much as chewing , although there was no way that she could see whereby the fruit could have been transmitted from one part of Legion to another . |
| 4 | After a buffet rijstafel of gargantuan proportions-thirty dishes concluded with a chewy sweet much beloved of the malais which resembled nothing so much as toenail pie — the Colonel served Tia Maria which he and his wife thought the last word in cosmopolitan sophistication . |
| 5 | In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities . |
| 6 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 7 | Making all due allowance for the return of historical tragedy as farce , watching this soporific monolith of the virtuous rise out of the debris of a liberating movement is akin to nothing so much as witnessing Bureaucracy emerge from the ashes of Revolution . |
| 8 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |
| 9 | It was as if I 'd only just found him , except that now I 'd start to wail like a baby if someone so much as knocked my little finger . |
| 10 | ‘ Be none so big as looks . |
| 11 | No one so much as raised an eyebrow in their direction . |
| 12 | But I find it hard to believe in a second exceptionally heavy wash from a boat in the same morning — one so heavy as to carry the body off again . ’ |
| 13 | That , as may be said in tones suitable to the objection , is the conception of something so complete as to necessitate by itself its effect . |
| 14 | ‘ When we arrived here , ’ said Fenella , and spared a thought for the absurdity of these words , because the manner of their arriving had been something so remarkable as to defy explanation or description . |
| 15 | ‘ Well , I think I 'll have one , ’ said Brian , and Scarlet saw that things were even worse than they seemed , for now his tone was artificial : he was making conversation about something so trivial as pouring himself a drink . |
| 16 | I felt naked and horribly vulnerable , like a snail with its shell off ; every nerve was close to the surface ; I thought if anyone so much as touched me , I 'd scream . |
| 17 | Twomey 's niece had prepared what she considered " a nice meal " for the travellers , but Twomey would not allow anything so unfitting as sharing a High Tea with Sir Dermot . |
| 18 | Leo was probably fun to be with , a great companion , a good friend , she thought , then gave a wry chagrined smile as he turned towards her as though he 'd been aware of her presence all along — and she might have known he would n't do anything so obliging as to walk off . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | In a country where anything so conspicuous as reducing food subsidies courts trouble , cut backs in the health sector may seem a safer bet ( in 1977 7.7 per cent of GNP was devoted to health care , down from 9.5 per cent in 1955 ; in comparison , proportions in the United States over the same period rose from 8 per cent to 11 per cent ) . |