Example sentences of "quite so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in the period covered by this book society was not quite so hierarchical as before or after ; nor did a man 's place in the sun depend on the number and dignity of his ancestors . |
| 2 | They were n't quite so stupid as to believe wholly their own propaganda . |
| 3 | There is also the problem of breaking with tradition ; the House of Lords is accustomed to having the assistance of judgments from the Court of Appeal following full and careful consideration of detailed argument on the points of principle involved in an atmosphere which , though busy , is not quite so frenetic as that of the High Court . |
| 4 | As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant . |
| 5 | Nothing had ever felt quite so right as finding herself in Nevil 's arms and being kissed by him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 8 | In fact , Hayzen 's policy implications may not be quite so relevant as they may at first seem . |
| 9 | ‘ But clever though the cruel invaders were , they were not quite so clever as they believed . |
| 10 | In east Germany and Prussia , for example , the peasant was not quite so poor as elsewhere , but he was disciplined to the estate by legal devices which seem to have been as powerful a stimulus to rural emigration as poverty . |
| 11 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 12 | Although much of the mapping is relatively straightforward to automate because it is rule based , there are exceptions and therefore the mapping in a real database application is not quite so straightforward as implied here . |
| 13 | Nowadays theologians are n't quite so straightforward as Paley . |
| 14 | Daryl tried to imitate all they did , she was good to , but not quite so good as they were , but she was quite fearless and divide of the highest diving board and went down a chute in all kinds of peculiar position . |
| 15 | The approach to management is not quite so lackadaisical as it once was , but there is still a long way to go , particularly in employment policies within the companies . |
| 16 | ‘ So I do n't think he found me quite so ridiculous as you make out , ’ concluded Viola , with an angry smirk of triumph . |
| 17 | No nation quite so much as the British likes its art to tell a story ( witness the pictures of Victorian England ) and no nation went overboard quite like the British to buy the Vung Tau cargo ; but with French , German , Italian , Dutch and Taiwanese buyers sharing out these decorations of the age of William and Mary , we must assume that the ‘ shipwreck factor ’ in these prices appeals to more than the nation which owned the Titanic and whose schoolboys read Mr Midshipman Easy and Moby Dick . |
| 18 | Of the bronze statuary , most beautiful was the 5½ inch high Hellenistic figure of a nude youth ( around late second or early first century BC ) , which sold to the European trade for $170,000 ( est. $40–60,000 ) , though nothing excited the crowd quite so much as the Roman porphyry . |
| 19 | Nothing raises hackles quite so much as the question of access to the countryside . |
| 20 | Nothing raises hackles quite so much as the question of access to the countryside . |
| 21 | Yes , now I would n't slur those quite so much as I would make that all legato . |
| 22 | I had also never before been without a pattern to the future , and I was starting to realize that it might not all be quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 23 | Getting into the Bristol Cancer Help Centre as a resident patient was n't quite so easy as I had imagined . |
| 24 | So under a Labour government , television would probably not be quite so pro-Labour as it was pro-Conservative under a Conservative government . |
| 25 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 26 | Well , erm , I know the forecast is n't quite so brilliant as it has been , I think but |
| 27 | Miss Potts left and Mademoiselle arrived , not quite so beaming as usual because of the heat . |
| 28 | He corrected an error in Riemann 's work and showed by an ingenious example that the scope of the new theory was not quite so great as some had claimed . |
| 29 | In terms of literature , however , it was n't quite so voluminous as , say , Home Purchaser — but the very nature of the Bond meant that all of the product details could n't be confirmed until just before the launch . |
| 30 | Florence Nightingale has been the inspiration for twentieth-century nursing ; every now and then a historian attempts to point out that there may have been aspects of her life which were not quite so saintly as we believe , but this does not shatter her image . |