Example sentences of "were [adv] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The persons surveyed were certainly eminent , but mostly people ( even politicians ! ) whose achievements were rarely so enduring as to place them in the class apart to which we would assign the truly original thinkers in history . |
| 2 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 3 | I enjoyed all my years at Primary School although some events were not so good as others . |
| 4 | Yet even the gashes were not so ugly as the expensive boat that had caused them . |
| 5 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 6 | In those days , children were not so sheltered as now from the pressures of adult life , and the exploitation of child prodigies for material gain was not frowned upon . |
| 7 | They accepted that Massingham had gained his promotion on merit although they were not so naive as to suppose that being the elder son of a peer did any man harm . |
| 8 | They were not so big as to require steam lifting machinery and powered saws . |
| 9 | Yet his views and Kennedy 's were not so dissimilar as they seemed . |
| 10 | ‘ Some hoped to be saved by going ; others did n't care if they were damned so long as they found new fields for profit and adventure . |
| 11 | So maybe that 's kept us going when the times were n't so good as they might be . |
| 12 | Some felt that they had mellowed already and that they were n't so active as they had been before . |
| 13 | The afterdeck — of course those boats were n't so big as they are now — all where I laid , it was all over the deck . |
| 14 | Although Clare had decided to call in Meg , she did n't ; at first because in the morning things were n't so pressing as they had been at night , and then because she was too busy at the Refuge , and then because it really did n't seem fair . |