Example sentences of "so [adj] as [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 2 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 3 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 4 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 5 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 6 | You can see so little as you blunder on that you are an easy target for any animal seeking fresh meat . |
| 7 | So it 's not so unbelievable as you think . ’ |
| 8 | Lucifer 's face was so devil-like as he said it that he frightened even Izzie , a thing he had never done on stage . |
| 9 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 10 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 11 | this frog so interesting as I inspect its most secret |
| 12 | it is not just what motivates so much as what motivates and how it might be achieved . |
| 13 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 14 | Well only in so much as we do n't get big bills . |
| 15 | The changes proposed by these authors in so much as they relate to the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands are summarised below . |
| 16 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 17 | Linnet — who could doubt it ? — had endured untold agonies beneath her cool , just a shade too persistent smile , finding little consolation , perhaps , but hardly so much as she had pretended , in the renewed attentions of Uriah Colclough . |
| 18 | Er in so much as I mean I must admit with these increases , I appreciate your need to get the extra profits and I 'm looking at the ones where I think we can push them to get a bit more . |
| 19 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 20 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |
| 21 | Not so much as he thought he was . |
| 22 | Beating Malta was one thing , in so much as it sustained the national team 's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals . |
| 23 | But comparing depression to a cold is misleading in so much as it implies that the condition is not only common , but mild . |
| 24 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ But clever though the cruel invaders were , they were not quite so clever as they believed . |
| 27 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 28 | not so easy as you think getting jobs |
| 29 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 30 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |