Example sentences of "so [adj] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Seldom is polar vegetation so lush as subpolar or temperate vegetation , nor its productivity per hectare so high ; arctic tundra , at first glance green and meadow-like , is often the thinnest of carpets with bare rocks and shingle showing through . |
| 2 | Miss Potts left and Mademoiselle arrived , not quite so beaming as usual because of the heat . |
| 3 | Through these arguments one arrives at the position that the use of ROI need not be so harmful as academic accountants ( including me in the early 1970s ! ) and more recently academics from other fields have argued it to be . |
| 4 | So it was that when I was asked to contribute an account of Elizabeth Taylor 's novels to a book of reference I remembered these words and wrote that her motive power was Love : ‘ Not the love that is a four-letter word , nor yet anything so theoretical as Christian charity , but most certainly a great virtue . ’ |
| 5 | He enjoyed nothing so much as sensual pleasures , and drank and womanised to excess . |
| 6 | African so much as African vs . |
| 7 | No one , on this warm summer afternoon , is so much as visible at a window . |
| 8 | Perhaps some of your problems are not technical so much as aesthetic . |
| 9 | This , however , would not be positive so much as negative reinforcement , ie it was nice when the pressure stopped . |
| 10 | I am not drunk so much as queasy . |
| 11 | These minerals are relatively insoluble and act not so much as direct plant foods , but put the soil in a state that favours the buildup and activity of soil life . |
| 12 | ‘ But once the authorities had clamped down , it was not a case of political Stalinism so much as bureaucratic perfidy and complete lack of imagination . |
| 13 | I would n't be embarrassed so much as angry . |
| 14 | The entire organisation , with its membership of eccentric senior officers and local groups of para-military ladies on the look-out for the Red Menace , seems like nothing so much as raw material for a comic novel of post-war manners . |
| 15 | Yet I offer to you as much as I possess , and so much as old age has left me , with the utmost satisfaction , as being at least a testimony to the instruction and delight that I have received from your marvellous invention . |
| 16 | The mothers ' courage in going it alone does n't seem to draw on any new feelings so much as old ones . |
| 17 | Unlike their counterparts in the longue durée , they were seen not so much as steady constraints with which societies had to contend over long periods , but as patterns of change which were themselves part and parcel of social life . |
| 18 | You do not feel competitive so much as creative and co-operative . |
| 19 | Talking about him with the others , I did find out that several other people had had the same experience with him as me ; that his lovemaking was done in silence , that he never said a word ( in fact with me he hardly looked me in the eye either , just stared at his own hands as he moved them over my body , not stroking so much as seizing and kneading me , holding me down too ) ; but then later in the night you would wake to hear him talking to himself , lying there fast asleep ( O always asked the men he fucked to stay with him all night long , always ) , fast asleep and talking out loud in the night , talking in a fast , furious , hushed , hollow voice . |
| 20 | Soon though , it may not be a matter off enlightened management to tackle the stress problem , so much as commercial necessity . |
| 21 | I was not angry or upset so much as concerned by the lads going so far in the wrong direction . |
| 22 | To this end it can be quite a good idea to sit down and make a list of all the social activities you would like to enjoy if you were free to do so -such as visiting and entertaining friends , going to the theatre , cinema , concerts , evening classes , study groups , church activities and special interest clubs , as well as the occasional holiday . |
| 23 | The fundamental original units that we need to postulate , in order to understand the coming into existence of everything , either consist of literally nothing ( according to some physicists ) , or ( according to other physicists ) they are units of the utmost simplicity , far too simple to need anything so grand as deliberate Creation . |
| 24 | ‘ There is nothing so fascinating as other people 's disputes . ’ |
| 25 | They are so useful as low-fat sources of protein ( and other nutrients too ) that they are an important part of any food regime , including diets to reduce weight . |
| 26 | A spare pair of stockings or tights should always be handy as nothing looks so unattractive as laddered tights . |
| 27 | These changes themselves reflected the changing role of women and the consumer approach to marriage : ‘ If your partner does not satisfy get another ’ ; ‘ Shop around until you find what you want ’ ; ‘ Children are of course important , but not so important as sexual compatibility and personal fulfilment ’ . |
| 28 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 29 | Oh , they wo n't go for anything so crude as physical torture . |
| 30 | But as Arafat and his colleagues knew full well , the Lebanese state was not beholden to anything so exotic as parliamentary democracy . |