Example sentences of "[prep] nothing so [adj] as " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities .
3 Passing swiftly over the visual arts bit — a series of paintings of living artists by Zsuzsi Roboz suggestive of nothing so much as chalk drawings on the pavements of Charing Cross Road — Mr Roosen is also offering ‘ complementary and holistic programmes for use in the private and corporate sectors worldwide ’ .
4 The grey ovoid , some distance away , expanded and contracted in a movement which reminded Ace of nothing so much as chewing , although there was no way that she could see whereby the fruit could have been transmitted from one part of Legion to another .
5 But when she quickly added a white lace fichu and a long , lacy shawl , the effect reminded her of nothing so much as the icing on her daughter 's wedding cake .
6 He spoke of nothing so much as his guilt at having depended only upon his own staff for security .
7 But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church .
8 There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) .
9 The entire organisation , with its membership of eccentric senior officers and local groups of para-military ladies on the look-out for the Red Menace , seems like nothing so much as raw material for a comic novel of post-war manners .
10 Making all due allowance for the return of historical tragedy as farce , watching this soporific monolith of the virtuous rise out of the debris of a liberating movement is akin to nothing so much as witnessing Bureaucracy emerge from the ashes of Revolution .
11 Even so , I was looking forward to nothing so much as a long hot soak in the bath .
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