Example sentences of "so [adj] as it " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 2 | This was not so heartless as it might seem . |
| 3 | However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) . |
| 4 | I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind . |
| 5 | One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty . |
| 6 | Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been . |
| 7 | It is n't a lack of the amorous , perhaps , so much as it is a completely different sense of the amorous to that which post-Christian man contains , to that which … the likes of Duncan , say , or myself may feel . |
| 8 | I mean your examination work , for in your other work you need no encouragement , for you like it so much as it is yourself finding expression in words . ’ |
| 9 | A somewhat different case is García Márquez 's One Hundred Years of Solitude which recounts the history of the small town of Macondo , not so much as it actually happened , but as its inhabitants experienced and interpreted it and as it was transmitted by popular oral tradition . |
| 10 | TV missed the end of Empire , except for little bits like the Argyll Highlanders ' steamy evacuation from Aden in 1967 , but it caught the Vietnam War , the Nigerian Civil War , and so much as it was permitted in the Falklands . |
| 11 | It did n't hurt so much as it did with my Dad passing away . |
| 12 | But comparing depression to a cold is misleading in so much as it implies that the condition is not only common , but mild . |
| 13 | Beating Malta was one thing , in so much as it sustained the national team 's hopes of qualifying for the World Cup finals . |
| 14 | But having h done that and having gone off his toe , he the wardrobe was n't in front of him so much as it was down there by now , and he 'd still got hold of it you see , so because of the momentum , of going that way down two steps and one further one he shot forward and went right over the edge of the wardrobe . |
| 15 | The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century . |
| 16 | This last is not so easy as it may seem , but can be highly illuminating . |
| 17 | In actuality this relationship between managers and workers is not so simple as it may first appear to be . |
| 18 | Finally , there have been changes over time in the rates of divorce and marriage , although the significance of these for patterns of kin relations may be not so obvious as it first appears . |
| 19 | It 's no longer so unusual as it once was to discuss openly , in certain forums , the advantages ( and heavenly bliss ! ) of safer sex . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place . |
| 22 | Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike . |
| 23 | My m my memories not nearly so good as it was . |
| 24 | Well , erm , I know the forecast is n't quite so brilliant as it has been , I think but |
| 25 | This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight . |
| 26 | Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy … |
| 27 | In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become . |
| 28 | Yet this love , so compelling , so fascinating as it grew despite everything , had been leading to destruction . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | When the accompanying chords are detached , it is not necessary to make the melodic line quite so powerful as it has to be to come through a mass of sustained harmony . |