Example sentences of "[indef pn] so [adj] as [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 2 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 3 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 4 | The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin . |
| 5 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
| 6 | Astonishing is a bureau-bookcase of the 1760s , by which time the cool winds of classicism had tamed Piffetti 's rococo ardour , where the marquetry resembles nothing so much as a stylish product of Parisian 1930s Art-Deco . |
| 7 | The two basic amino-terminal α-helices sit in the major groove so that they are perpendicular to one another on opposite sides of the DNA duplex ; they resemble nothing so much as a pair of short chopsticks . |
| 8 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 9 | There was a dining-room , which he said he never used , on the north side of the house , and another room which resembled nothing so much as a second-hand bookshop ; a chaos of books — shelves of books , stacks of books , piles of magazines and newspapers , and one large and evidently newly arrived parcel that lay unopened on a desk by the window . |
| 10 | Even so , I was looking forward to nothing so much as a long hot soak in the bath . |
| 11 | She closed her eyes theatrically , and resembled nothing so much as a reigning prima donna who is being pestered by her producer to act . |
| 12 | ITALIAN political life has recently resembled nothing so much as a scene from Goethe 's poem The Sorcerer 's Apprentice . |
| 13 | The system would resemble nothing so much as the ‘ democratic centralism ’ much beloved of Leninist and Maoist governments . |
| 14 | But when she quickly added a white lace fichu and a long , lacy shawl , the effect reminded her of nothing so much as the icing on her daughter 's wedding cake . |
| 15 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 16 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 17 | The act was performed with particular virtuosity when Mrs Crumwallis dosed them all with castor oil , an old-fashioned cure-all in which she had a fiendish trust : then the boys ' performance resembled nothing so much as an acted-out illustration for Nicholas Nickleby . |
| 18 | He resembled nothing so much as an old man reliving a glorious moment of his past . |