Example sentences of "so [verb] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isaac Walton , Donne 's biographer , relates the tale : ‘ Several charcoal fires being first madde in his large study , he brought with him into that place a winding sheet in his hand , and having put off all his clothes , had this sheet put on him , and so tied with knots at his head and feet , and his hands so placed as dead bodies are usually fitted , to be shrouded and put into their coffin , or grave … with his eyes shut and with so much of the sheet turned aside as might show his lean , pale and death-like face . ’ |
| 2 | God 's Gift Mine , it was recognised , lay conveniently near to the Brigham smelters enabling ore deliveries to be maintained throughout the winter months whereas the other ores " further distant , can not be brought to the said smelting house , but in the sumer only … you may therefore consider how farr forth those Mynes soe farr distant may bee sett upon with good strength in sumer and what number of kibbles will weekly be gotten and towards winter when that will faile , to drive those pickmen from there to work in Gods gift , if the winter shall not hinder untill we may be furnished either out of Germainie or our own Nation with a sufficient number of pickmen to man all the works thoroughly & withall to consider whether the Myne of Gods Gift be not so plentifull as some other new Stolnes ( G. Stollen — tunnel , adit etc. ) or head ( possibly a forerunner of our word " heading " ) may be driven thereby to gitt the like weekly pportion ( proportion ) as hath formerly been gotten there . " |
| 3 | The chariot is itemised as wheels , car , people standing in car ; but the two horses that draw it are allowed to overlap , so shown as one body with two necks and heads and eight legs . |
| 4 | In recent years members of Darlington Lecture Association have heard some remarkable stories but it is probable that few have been so remarkable or so moving as that which John Hawkridge will tell on Monday . |
| 5 | It may simply be used as a taunt which is deemed provocative and so portrayed as one of several triggering actions for the killing . |
| 6 | Although not so thronged as any assembly addressed by Eliot would later have been , the room was full . |