Example sentences of "no [noun] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 2 | Gross has happily classified some 3,000 under various headings : Self-Love ( ’ To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance ’ — Oscar Wilde ) ; Love , Jealousy , Libido ( ’ No woman so naked as one you can see to be naked underneath her clothes ’ — Michael Frayn ) ; Secrets ( ’ There is something about a cupboard that makes a skeleton terribly restless ’ — anon ) and Criticism ( ’ In some cases taking up the trade of critic is only an embittered form of renunciation ’ — Albert Guinon ) . |
| 3 | When it is suggested to him that it may be necessary and unavoidable to kill those who oppress mankind in the same way as it is necessary and unavoidable to hill a homicidal lunatic who threatens society , his reply is that no man is so evil as to be beyond redemption , and no man so perfect as to be justified in killing these whom he considers to be evil . |
| 4 | A thousand thousand ways we 'll find To entertain the hours ; No two shall e'er be known so kind , No life so blest as ours . |
| 5 | We can do a lot after planting , but in no way so fundamental as doing the job properly beforehand . |
| 6 | Sherlock wrote at the time of the calling of the Convention , " there are no Contentions so fierce as those about Religion … |