Example sentences of "not so great as " in BNC.
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| 1 | His attachment to classical principle was not so great as to deter him from practical innovation . |
| 2 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 3 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 4 | However , one attempt to test the extent of misreporting ( Martin/Butcher , 1982 ) found that , in general , it was not so great as to be a cause for concern . |
| 5 | So the man is not so great as his art ? |
| 6 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 7 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |
| 8 | prove that this technology was n't so great as one would have thought it was without the ground troops . |