Example sentences of "as so [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The great unwashed ’ — the watching ( and listening ) public — are seen as so many target audiences by a ‘ biz'ness'-minded industry to the chagrin of intellectuals or ( some ) professionals who dream of what might have been . |
| 2 | He dismissed the question as so much supposition , but when he tried to give her a reassuring hug she wriggled free and went out on to the balcony to join the others . |
| 3 | In these days of dwindling research funds and increased competition , what better way of disposing of rivals than by characterising papers or proposals as so much chaff ? |
| 4 | It is not so easy to produce figures for Britain as so much porn is consumed illegally , but the trend is sure to mirror that of the States . |
| 5 | Labour 's consumer affairs spokesman Nigel Griffiths said last night : ‘ This is a matter of national concern as so much money is spent by parents and children on these games . ’ |
| 6 | Firstly Muslims ( like Christians and unlike Hindus ) have set prayers which should be said during the day , so that Christian prayers can be regarded as a threat or at least an alternative to Islam , and secondly , while Hindu and Sikh parents often regard Christian prayers for their children as so much water off a duck 's back , Muslims , again like Christians or religious Jews , object to any other religious influence on their children . |
| 7 | And about something as important as so much land and money he would speak with correctitude . |
| 8 | As so much change was , in any event , necessary this would be an ideal opportunity to reclassify , while involving the minimum of additional work for the bureaux . |
| 9 | When squirreling away the wax seals , Colley had thrown the parchments into the property wagon as so much litter . |
| 10 | It was powered , as so much grieving is , not only by the act which had triggered it , but by community memories of other griefs . |
| 11 | This poses an interesting problem ; while Marx appears to deal with ideology as so much irrelevance ( e.g. the work of idealist philosophers ) , Engels suggests here that the material process that is the object of study in Marx 's later work , can be affected by ideology . |