Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb pp] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | No ruler of a large State , however , could afford the luxury of uncritical adherence to an ideology , even one so loosely defined as that of enlightened government . |
| 2 | But the many complex descriptions of the real social practice of literate and oral modes that are now becoming available suggest that literacy and orality are not so vastly differentiated as these writers claim . |
| 3 | Rarely , however , have these two benefits been so effectively combined as in the new DOUBLE PAYOUT PLAN from Reader 's Digest . |
| 4 | Clever , witty and articulate , he came from the intellectual elite which McCarthy so effectively attacked as responsible for many of America 's problems . |
| 5 | Amongst the vast range of savoury snacks there is just one entry for crisps , and I felt that the huge variety of chocolate biscuits or wavers , toffee , caramel , nuts and muesli etc that are so widely eaten as snacks are under-represented . |
| 6 | A similar result was avoided in The Lisboa where the clause was so widely drawn as to suggest that even proceedings for execution of the award were prohibited ; as such an interpretation would lead to the clause being null and void by virtue of section 8 of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1924 , the Court of Appeal adopted a more limited interpretation under which proceeds for execution or to obtain security , including security by means of a Mareva injunction , were allowed . |
| 7 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 8 | She was not so much spoilt as totally unaware . |
| 9 | As a spin-off of the Channel 4 series of the same name , this book is not so much written as compiled . |
| 10 | He was furnished with a big drum and plenty of liquid refreshment meant that before long he not so much marched as fell around the city . |
| 11 | Creamy crab cocktail was fine , but the smoked fish pie it 's only meat pies we 've given up for Lent was n't so much smoked as immolated . |
| 12 | The whole matter was not so much solved as channelled in another direction by the sudden love match between Mary and her first cousin Henry , Lord Darnley , whom she described as the ‘ properest and best proportioned long man ’ she had ever seen . |
| 13 | She was free of Ferdinando , towards whom her feelings had not so much changed as vanished , and of Mrs Browning who still troubled her so . |
| 14 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 15 | Q2 's designer , Mike Pocock , was n't so much chosen as self-appointed through a combination of admiration for Mary 's enthusiasm and a clear understanding of what the owner wanter Q2 to be . |
| 16 | No — this was still the interior of the Drum , its walls stained with smoke , its floor a compost of old rushes and nameless beetles , its sour beer not so much purchased as merely hired for a while . |
| 17 | This crisis was not so much averted as won by the progressives , but only after Pope Paul had taken a hand and , on the issues that Suenens had wished to put to the vote , the progressives won a clear majority on 30 October . |
| 18 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 19 | From all these activities women were not so much excluded as absent by definition . |
| 20 | The effluent is already so highly diluted as not to be dangerous , and the resulting near-pure water will be used in ICI cooling towers . |
| 21 | Available goods are so highly priced as to be out of reach for people on average incomes . |
| 22 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 23 | Charles II took a personal interest it , matters relating to mining and it is reported that he united the old Mines Royal and the Soc. of Mineral & Battery Works which had for so long run as separate enterprises . |
| 24 | I think I would n't of thought they 'd be so thick skinned as to turn away help , that so much help , I just ca n't see it |
| 25 | Rarely can St Augustine 's dictum that bands of brigands are but petty kingdoms without justice ( City of God , iv , 4 ) have been so easily comprehended as in the eleventh century . |
| 26 | Samuel Johnson , who was something of a hero of the new school , once remarked that a man is seldom so innocently employed as when he is making money , and that celebrated remark might serve as a slogan for much of modern British fiction . |
| 27 | Russia 's envy is understandable when , under communist government , the state 's doctors were so slightly rewarded as to make illegal private practice inevitable . |
| 28 | The case highlighted the difficulty facing a mortgagee when a person other than its borrower lives at the mortgaged premises , for such person , as confirmed by this case , may have rights or interests in that property ( although the principles of the case are not being so strictly applied as was first thought — see Bristol & West Building Society v Henning [ 1985 ] 2 All ER 606 and Midland Bank Ltd v Dobson ( 1985 ) NLJ 26 July , 251 ) . |
| 29 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |
| 30 | What is actually meant is that the world is no longer so clearly divided as it was in the 1950s and 1960s into two armed camps of allies , with China , after 1960 , causing something of a schism in the Russian camp . |