Example sentences of "so [adj] as it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact that D'Oyly 's aristocratic informant said that the washermen should be paid for their service with money ( ridi ) may simply reflect the greater social distance which separated the aristocrats from the Hena , or it could be that , at that date , the distinction between commercial and non-commercial economic transactions had not yet become so clear-cut as it is today . |
| 2 | My m my memories not nearly so good as it was . |
| 3 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 4 | Loch 's reputation in Shropshire does not appear to have been so contentious as it was in Scotland , and the landscape he created in the Wealdmoors is now level ploughland of peat interspersed with rectangular plantations of poplar . |
| 5 | It is unfortunate that this street Křižovnická is so busy as it is difficult to see . |
| 6 | Whether it is viewed as a physical or metaphysical symbol , the image has never been so degraded as it is today . |
| 7 | So under a Labour government , television would probably not be quite so pro-Labour as it was pro-Conservative under a Conservative government . |
| 8 | Below are the linked toy basins of the old fishing port , so small they are almost lost in the rocks , and a reminder that Biarritz was not always so big and so prosperous as it is now . |
| 9 | With the soft detergents now in use , this trouble is not so bad as it was a few years ago , but appreciable quantities still get into some rivers , even though the bulk is removed in sewage-purification treatment . |
| 10 | Not so bad as it was then in those days . |