Example sentences of "be [pron] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ There are none so blind as those who will not see ! ’ |
| 2 | Del Boy 's words of wisdom went through my mind ‘ There are none so blind as those who wo n't listen ’ . |
| 3 | Or is it that there are none so blind as those who will not see ? |
| 4 | ‘ 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 . |
| 5 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 6 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 7 | Both of them loved women and in that love as in every emotion they were inarticulate , yet in no impulse of the heart were they so tongue-tied as in this great and pure friendship of theirs . |
| 8 | There 's nothing so lonely as unemployment , even if you 're on a queue with a thousand others . |
| 9 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 10 | ‘ There is nothing so fascinating as other people 's disputes . ’ |
| 11 | Under the Net ( 1954 ) , her first published fiction , is technically speaking a memoir-novel like Crusoe or Moll Flanders , being composed as autobiography in the first person ; and The Sea , the Sea ( 1978 ) , like Crusoe , is in part a diary where the narrator — male , as usual — is himself so unaware as he writes of the astonishing end there will be to kidnapping his lost love that the reader is as surprised as he when it finally unfolds : an audacious exploitation of the fictional memoir never attempted by Defoe himself . |
| 12 | — Of all the creatures in the ocean , there 's none so terrible as … — ; |
| 13 | Nick , Salli and Steve : there 's none so queer as Suffolk … |
| 14 | There 's none so queer as Suffolk , as follicle-flowing grind merchants and Bury boys JACOB 'S MOUSE have discovered in their illustrious nine-year history since meeting at a swimming gala , aged 11 . |
| 15 | ‘ Be none so big as looks . |
| 16 | It is the essential inner spirit of the earth here — immemorial and profoundly mystical — and nowhere is it so potent as upon the edges of these curious chalk pits . |
| 17 | THERE 's nowt so queer as folk . |