Example sentences of "so [adj] as [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He did not refer to anything so vulgar as payment , of course , because the Gnomes would not expect it .
2 His speeds are not so driven as Rattle 's , the energy level is lower ; but there is a clearer sense of the cunning in the music .
3 Nothing so absolute as sex .
4 Not so violent as war surely ?
5 I understand the hon. Gentleman 's frustration , but it is not so easy as Opposition Members keep asserting .
6 Well , go on , do n't stop there , I 'm sure the rest is just as fascinating — presumably that , yes , you knew Ryan , but when you flew over to find out why the hell he could n't get something so simple as planning permission you decided to do something about it yourself , and there was gullible little Hilary , all ready and waiting to fall into your arms .
7 Personal virtue , he went on , was indispensable , for " nothing is so dangerous as intelligence when it is guided by a corrupt heart " .
8 What is most wanted in a woman is gentleness ; formed to obey a creature so imperfect as man , a creature often vicious and always faulty , she should early learn to submit to injustice and to suffer the wrongs inflicted on her by her husband without complaint .
9 It seemed to me that he was colder now , disappointed that I should have been found to have anything so hostile as escape equipment in my pockets .
10 Fashions change , and the hulk-like diesels that were so unwelcome as steam replacements twenty-five years previously were given a massive send-off from the new generation of enthusiasts .
11 There is no form of advertising so valuable as word of mouth .
12 ‘ Why are Catholic churches here not so good as Church of Ireland ones ? ’ the man asked me .
13 Hardly anything so grand as horology I expect you 're thinking .
14 It 's not so rough as some things , it 's not so rough as rugby but perhaps you do n't mind being a bit rough do you ?
15 There 's nothing so lonely as unemployment , even if you 're on a queue with a thousand others .
16 I do n't think Sophie had ever felt anything so complicated as guilt , so she must have done these things because she was fond of him .
17 Methods however are not so important as outcome .
18 The streets may not have been nearly so safe as nostalgia for ‘ Old England ’ suggests , but it is likely that if working-class youths had been firing off guns throughout London , then we would have heard a little bit more about the matter .
19 Blow , blow thou Winter wynd , thou wert not so unkind as man 's ingratitude !
20 Discussions do take place within this Government — we are not so Stalinist as Labour 's national executive committee in these matters .
21 This almost utopian-sounding conclusion — that niceness and forgivingness pay — came as a surprise to many of the experts , who had tried to be too cunning by submitting subtly nasty strategies ; while even those who had submitted nice strategies had not dared anything so forgiving as Tit for Two Tats .
22 If training and competing were exacting , they were not nearly so exacting as plantation work .
23 In his message to the nation of 31 December 1950 , Franco admitted that " the rhythm of resettlement is still a long way below our ambitions " , but immediately excused this by saying that a sector so vital as agriculture would be damaged by " erroneous or precipitate reform " .
24 The US Federal Trade Commission is still trying to put together a case against Microsoft Corp that will win support from its commissioners , US PC Week reports , and will be collecting final depositions this week : the complaint is now expected to be drastically simplified in an effort to make it acceptable to at least three of the four voting commissioners , and the latest depositions are primarily focused on allegations that Microsoft intentionally built incompatibilities into its software so it would n't work well with offerings from competitors — a complaint set off by Novell Inc , which alleged DR DOS would n't work with Windows 3.1 because Microsoft deliberately added incompatible code ; Microsoft said it had ‘ never developed a product to be intentionally incompatible with some other product ’ ; the Commission is also expected to address the manner in which Microsoft disseminates technical information to developers , and the manner in which it has capitalised on operating system monopoly to build applications sales ; if at least three of the four commissioners agree with the complaint , the case will go to administrative court and Microsoft will be sued by the federal government for anti-trust violations , but the company is not expected to be asked to do anything so drastic as sell units .
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