Example sentences of "so [adj] [noun] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ No officer living who has seen so little service as my Lord Marlborough is so fit for great commands , ’ commented William prophetically after the 40-year-old general had , in the autumn of 1690 , rapidly captured Cork and Kinsale . |
| 2 | " Nowhere " , he wrote , is there so much and at the same time so little centralization as there is in Russia . |
| 3 | There never was a time when so many could get about so quickly , comfortably , and with so little effort as we can now ( except when they were infants in arms ) . |
| 4 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
| 5 | The dichotomy between private and public sector is not so clear cut as it may appear . |
| 6 | Their victory was not quite so clear cut as that of the Kent boys but there was no doubting their overall superiority . |
| 7 | Since no firm of solicitors can ever afford to retain the services of any employee or partner whose conduct tends to reflect ill on the reputation of the practice , and since the circumstances may rarely be so clear cut as to secure withdrawal from the firm by consent , thorough consideration must be given at the outset to the conditions for expelling partners . |
| 8 | ‘ Michael Stich has definitely told us he will play and all the indications are that Boris will do so this time as well ’ said Mr Meyer-Wolden , who spent several hours on a flight back from Australia earlier in the year , putting Becker in the picture of a wide range of his views , ideas and objectives . |
| 9 | They are not so much gods as supermen and superwomen — more basking shark than Cerberus , to return to our Loch Ness analogy . |
| 10 | Such lavas resemble raspberry jam that is half pips ( or is it wood shavings they use ? ) ; they are not so much liquids as pasty mushes of solid material . |
| 11 | Adam 's face , when he saw his father , was a study in some unpleasant emotion , not so much anxiety as exasperation . |
| 12 | When nookey is in the offing bosoms do not so much swell as burst over the lace like a pair of dumplings rising to the surface of a casserole pot . |
| 13 | I grew up wanting not so much money as glamour , and when I left school at 15 I went to work in the department store , Bourne & Hollingsworth . |
| 14 | In practice , under threat of dismissal or of heavy fines , or even of just not making so much money as they might , many dealers succumb to the temptation of exaggerating short-term prospects . |
| 15 | The seats , upholstered in dark red leather , held you high above the surface of the road and shed a certain dignity on your journey ; you did not so much travel as process . |
| 16 | Today it is not so much fluoridation as nitrates and pesticides which generate international conflict over water quality . |
| 17 | Close up , he looked softer and less fit than I had thought , not so much rugby as darts . |
| 18 | What principally affects the environment of management is not so much turbulence as the wave upon wave of not very closely related demands and pressures from public and governmental sources . |
| 19 | ‘ It was not so much consideration as intuition , for something tells me that you visit me with some strange intelligence . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Not so much problems as surprises and difficulties . |
| 21 | The rest is not so much history as anti-racist herstory . |
| 22 | Or rather , they do not so much dance as cling to one another , rocking drunkenly with the tide . |
| 23 | What stopped people surfing Pipeline was only in part the wave itself — not so much perpendicular as concave , bent over like the hook of a question mark or a twitching scorpion 's tail . |
| 24 | alright , whatever you say , right there does n't seem to be so much mess as usual |
| 25 | He was small , with wide , staring eyes and a way of raising and turning his head which suggested not so much caution as a kind of ceaseless , nervous tension . |
| 26 | I like it better with not quite so much ginger as last week . |
| 27 | He has not so much brain as ear wax , ( Troilus and Cressida ) — to anyone slow on the uptake . |
| 28 | We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us . |
| 29 | At the last minute , however , when the terms were being finalised at the papal court , the French withdrew : the making of such concessions , which involved so much principle as well as territory , could not be countenanced . |
| 30 | Because of this , what we see on the screen seems not so much acting as existing . |