Example sentences of "a [noun] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He heard evidence from the newspaper which undermined the applicant 's evidence , and decided that there was not " a case so clear as to be beyond argument a case to answer " . |
| 2 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 3 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 4 | In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " . |
| 5 | " You 'll take some treacle tart , " she told Daniel , the set of her pugnacious jaw warning him that she was not asking a question so much as issuing a command . |
| 6 | A passion so intense , a caring so complete as to make all other feeling insignificant . |
| 7 | A rose stem is not very thick , and it does not look very nice to use a stake so thick as to be out of proportion to the stem it is supporting . |
| 8 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 9 | The statement that ‘ Britain can not afford to go it alone ’ is usually presented as a matter of fact , as a point so strong as to be undebatable . |
| 10 | The TAZ is not a place so much as a mobile event compressing punk nihilism , neo-paganism and radical information . |
| 11 | A Theme so low as Mira 's simple Song , |
| 12 | Flora , always spoilt , is never lonely — until at the last she has the frightening experience of seeing herself as one pair of hostile eyes saw her : the eyes of a person so ill-conditioned as to sent her an anonymous letter , and yet a painter of distinction . |
| 13 | A multiplicity of small early termini was replaced in 1914 by Tokyo Central , a station so vast as to vie with Howrah in Calcutta , though other mainline termini , Ueno and Shinjuku , survived . |
| 14 | What is most wanted in a woman is gentleness ; formed to obey a creature so imperfect as man , a creature often vicious and always faulty , she should early learn to submit to injustice and to suffer the wrongs inflicted on her by her husband without complaint . |
| 15 | It was not a collection so much as a systematized compilation and its arrangement came to influence all further compilations of importance . |
| 16 | Giorgio Armani wears navy , beige and more navy — punctuated with the occasional white T-shirt — and he has built an empire on the principle that nothing becomes a woman so much as every shade of sludge on the mud flats . |
| 17 | Part of the oddness of her appearance , he realized , came from the fact that she did n't look like a woman so much as a rather inept female impersonator . |
| 18 | How could one not admire a woman so clear as to her needs that she did not care whose flesh she carved her way through , who did not care whose sleep she shattered in the small hours of the dawn ? |
| 19 | Composers scored their music for the forces that were available , and David Wulstan is surely correct in perceiving that the recognition of evolutions and innovations in the performing medium may contribute to the establishment of a chronology for a composer so long-lived as Byrd . |
| 20 | Then he paid his fare , added a tip so meagre as to be barely decent , and shuffled across the pavement , through the front gate , and down the path to his semi-detached residence . |
| 21 | A sight so curious as B.P. |
| 22 | Whereas Marx is usually thought to have envisaged a classless society in which people will no longer be deluded by false consciousness , Althusser has posited a determinism so strong as to be inescapable . |
| 23 | The judge had warned the jury not to award " Mickey Mouse money " , by which he apparently intended to refer to a sum so large as to be unrealistic ( such as 1.5 million ) . |
| 24 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 25 | The Family illness is perhaps not a cross-addiction so much as an addictive relationship and a mirror-image of the various primary illnesses . |
| 26 | In Holy Trinity Church Nicholson abounded in anecdotes , vulgarity , rudeness , emotional appeals , a dogmatism so dogmatic as to frighten . |
| 27 | A material so light as to be virtually indistinguishable from natural slate . |
| 28 | His fellow judges disagreed with Lord Denning and his opinions probably do not reflect the law , though the emergence of such views from a source so eminent as Lord Denning demonstrates clearly the common law 's culture of uncertainty , within which repressive rules can emerge without embarrassment . |