Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] an [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to the court that in its current form the civil components of the process of judicial review were so strong that an application which claimed the civil relief authorised by section 21K was to be regarded as a civil cause or matter . |
| 2 | His resignation arose not so much because an audience was to be debarred from geology , as because women were to be debarred from the audience . |
| 3 | Many now happily experienced that Christian fellowship of which they had not so much as an idea before . |
| 4 | And she names it not so much as an act of politesse but of evasion , even cowardice . |
| 5 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 6 | Without so much as an order , the line parted , one and two , and flowed on past Fred White without even breaking step . |
| 7 | When I first approached The Smiths in regard to this book , although treated with sympathy from their manager , I was waved aside without so much as an acknowledgement . |
| 8 | An actor who had written to Meredith on many occasions — always enclosing , as his wife was at pains to point out , his page number in Spotlight and a stamped addressed envelope , without ever once receiving so much as an acknowledgement in return — was unfortunately dead . |
| 9 | They saw universal , or manhood , suffrage not so much as an end in itself as the key which would unlock the door to radical or even revolutionary social and economic change . |
| 10 | Sometimes she had the oddest feeling that she would have been able to confide in Paul , to pour out to him the whole bloody silly story without causing him to bat so much as an eyelid . |
| 11 | Existing fitness centres can be intimidating places with not so much as an ounce of unwanted fat on display . |
| 12 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 13 | The situation is now so serious that an area of tropical rainforest the size of 6 football pitches is destroyed every minute of the day . |
| 14 | It is questionable whether it can become an agent to promote social work but is position is so central than an attempt must be made . |
| 15 | The importance of the machinery groups was so great that an effort was made to obtain full details of how they were organised . |
| 16 | The controversy was so deep that an appeal was made to Rome by the combatants . |
| 17 | In what follows the interpretative dimension will come alive only on the next layer of the problem , where we ask whether social rules and institutions account for the performance of social roles , or vice versa , In other words , we think international institutions too fragile to permit a fully systemic answer on the highest layer and so incomplete that an answer which favours the international units must yield to curiosity about how these units work . |
| 18 | The ice was so thick that an elephant was able to walk down it — and did . |