Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] as [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never can these songs have sounded so original , so achingly tense as here . |
| 2 | She was not so much spoilt as totally unaware . |
| 3 | No — this was still the interior of the Drum , its walls stained with smoke , its floor a compost of old rushes and nameless beetles , its sour beer not so much purchased as merely hired for a while . |
| 4 | The effluent is already so highly diluted as not to be dangerous , and the resulting near-pure water will be used in ICI cooling towers . |
| 5 | This was not least because of the respect and affection in which , as I found , Eliot was so clearly held as both a writer and a man . |
| 6 | It is just this point that is made by Lado , whose approach to language teaching is so often represented as directly opposed to the development of communicative abilities : |
| 7 | ‘ The Old English Style ’ he favoured most was seldom so well displayed as here and in the Bride Valley . |