Example sentences of "was [adv] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 2 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 3 | However , one attempt to test the extent of misreporting ( Martin/Butcher , 1982 ) found that , in general , it was not so great as to be a cause for concern . |
| 4 | Under cover of buying a magazine from the stall opposite , Isabel glanced over , and then stared more persistently , for he had not seen her , was not so much as looking up from his counting . |
| 5 | The French Dragoons crossed the frontier with drawn swords , but the weapons served no purpose other than to dignify the moment with a suitable melodrama , for there was not so much as a single Dutch customs officer to oppose the invasion . |
| 6 | ‘ The actual loss of merchandise was not so much as to be catastrophic . |
| 7 | And , erm , so this , it was , in a sense it was not so much as what was repressed in his ears , the structure of his ego that led to this unfortunate consequence . |
| 8 | A further protest rose to her lips , but , since she had other more important matters to think about , she obligingly went and placed her foot on the ledge and , raising her trouser leg a little , allowed him to study her beige cotton sock where there was not so much as a broken thread . |
| 9 | In fact , Ceauşescu was not so macabre as to plan to live in his own tomb . |
| 10 | Many women died in childbirth , but it was not so dangerous as the warlike pursuits of the men-folk . |
| 11 | The symbol of race , however , was not so unambiguous as the symbol of communism . |
| 12 | All the things that bloody woman , Beth , had said were true , but his old mind was not so sharp as it once was . |
| 13 | Wesleyan support , as the Spectator observed in 1897 , ‘ was not so extensive as outsiders might gather from some inside declarations ’ . |
| 14 | In any case , his use of search was not so extensive as to merit using a large number of firms . |
| 15 | This was not so wide as the first one had been , and she bridged it safely . |
| 16 | This was not so heartless as it might seem . |
| 17 | True , it was not so spectacular as earlier assaults on it , such as the Arab-Israeli war of 1973 , so it is hardly surprising that Israeli leaders should have so contemptuously dismissed it , so patently failed to understand its revolutionary import : that , for the first time , the enemy was offering the prospect of the civilised , peaceful , negotiated settlement for which Israel had clamoured since its foundation . |
| 18 | In later experiments a brightly coloured plastic bottle was used and the blackbirds even learned to mob this object , although it was not so effective as a novel stuffed bird . |
| 19 | He was not so simple as to believe that the danger would be over when Aldhelm went home frustrated , but what followed he would have to encounter and parry when it came . |
| 20 | The Speaker of the House of Representatives , Thomas S. Foley ( Dem. , Washington ) , stated his opposition to any amendment of the Bill of Rights , however , arguing that the issue of flag burning was not so important as to make it " worth tampering with the most important repository of personal liberty that any country has ever established in its history " . |
| 21 | In practical terms , the concordat was not so important as the Hispano-US agreement . |
| 22 | In that case of Appleford ( Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 ) there was a mandamus brought , to restore him to his fellowship : it was returned , that by the statutes of the college , for misdemeanour they had a power to turn him out ; and that the Bishop of Winchester was visitor , and that he was turned out pro crimine enormi , and had appealed to the bishop , who confirmed the expulsion ; and the particular cause was not returned : I was of counsel for the college , and we omitted the cause in the return for that reason , because indeed it was not so true as it should have been . |
| 23 | Unfortunately , from the company 's point of view , it was not so competitive as that from Yarrow , but it was certainly a very responsible offer . |
| 24 | The Court appears to have taken the view that although the victim was staying overnight in the offender 's house , and therefore he had a degree of responsibility for her welfare , his responsibility was not so strict as that of a parent or other person with a longer lasting relationship with the victim , and that the degree of responsibility in this case did not justify the adoption of eight years as a starting point as opposed to the normal five years . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | The aircraft was not so manoeuvrable as the Japanese Zero , but its strength far exceeded the Zero in a dive . |
| 27 | They took five hours to get it out ; and there was a man in the next room who was not so lucky as I was . |
| 28 | Schüssler Fiorenza has shown in an impressive way in In Memory of Her that women 's contribution to the life of the church was not so marginal as has often been assumed . |
| 29 | The first part , on the promenade , was not so bad as the last lap up into the town centre where all the local talent was collected round the cinema and amusement arcade or merely loafing about the pavement . |
| 30 | The punishment was hard because Maggie would miss her visit , but it was not so bad as losing some of her pay . |