Example sentences of "so [adj] [noun pl] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not so much gods as supermen and superwomen — more basking shark than Cerberus , to return to our Loch Ness analogy . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Not so much problems as surprises and difficulties . |
| 4 | These are not so much movies as big-budget episodes of Crimewatch UK . |
| 5 | The sides were not so much planks as squares of wood stuck on apparently at hazard . |
| 6 | The snow , the ice , the frost , the winter winds , the wolves , might be not so much facts as symbolic images with which Irina sought to disguise what was innately disturbing about our childhood during those years before the war . |
| 7 | This book is concerned primarily with business secrets and so such issues as marital confidences and privacy are not considered even though they may occasionally have commercial value . |
| 8 | But this is seen to be the reason why forces or energies are transferred or transmitted across what has continually been regarded by so many scientists as ‘ empty space ’ . |
| 9 | The 1959 Act ( s.32 ) enabled a licensing court to grant licences for the sale of alcoholic liquor to " such and so many persons as the court shall think fit . " |
| 10 | He was celebrated at court for the eloquence of his sermons , and in 1683 Lord Dartmouth , who commanded the large fleet which was to visit Tangiers and evacuate its garrison , implored him ‘ For God 's sake , and as I am to answer for the preservation of so many souls as he hath put under my care ’ , to join the expedition as his chief chaplain . |
| 11 | Janine Antoni gave a performance ( which took place on the opening night and can be viewed on video ) in which she immersed her hair in that inky mess familiar to so many women as hair-dye and proceeded to use her loaded as a floor mop , covering the surface of the gallery floor with the stuff . |
| 12 | Now breathing , breathing in erm poisons , we 'll go over this in more detail erm , there 's so many things as we 've already gone through that can cause us asphyxia , one of them 's poison in itself is n't it ? |
| 13 | Partly this was explained by the location of the papacy on the borders of France , at Avignon , and partly by the fact that so many cardinals as well as popes were French . |
| 14 | She saw affection and concern in his eyes , but imagined that the love was gone , the intensity of the gaze , that knowingness that she had shared for so many years as they had fought to find this place through the forest . |
| 15 | She says the students wo n't be able to afford to buy so many books as well , so they 'll be more dependent on the library . |
| 16 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 17 | It is particularly relevant to the present work , concerned with the role of precious substances as symbols of excellence , that is as objects of emulation , that Veblen should have specified ‘ precious stones and the metals and some other materials used for adornment and decoration ’ in so many words as being of outstanding ‘ utility as items of conspicuous waste ’ . |
| 18 | Notice that there will not be quite so many trajectories as points on the top face of B since trajectories will , in general , intersect this plane in a large ( possibly infinite ) number of points . |
| 19 | It is no wonder that the judges in Star Chamber condemned ‘ so foul matters as we think have seldom appeared in any man ’ . |