Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] as [pron] " in BNC.

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1 He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility .
2 Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’
3 On the other hand , neither did the faithful military figure so much here as it did in the political activities of the Smolensk party organization .
4 It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be .
5 There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over .
6 But that 's not so far off as I am , I thought you were much younger than I .
7 And then er then I mean er , was n't so big then as it is now .
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