Example sentences of "so [adj] as [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | not so tall as all that |
| 2 | It is different from hers , but not quite so different as some suggest . |
| 3 | Anything that I can do to point out that technology is not so high-risk as many think will be in the UK 's interests . ’ |
| 4 | True , there are the remarkable exceptions : Burt 's quarter century escapade in wholesale duplicity is a real shocker — though it may prove nothing so much as that psychology , or at least intelligence testing , has no claim to scientific respectability . |
| 5 | Besides , it was not the general 's assassination so much as that of the emperor a year later which was vital . |
| 6 | there are some … that travell with me in the same birth ; yet are not able to bring forth their conceptions , for so much as many times , the Truth suffers by a weake delivery ; and for their sakes have I held this Glasse before them , that so they may be the better able to describe themselves to others ; and to help them to bring forth that out of their mouths , which perhaps may lye in the bottome of their hearts . |
| 7 | She would not be taken for a fool , either , not when it mattered so much as this . |
| 8 | There was another rustle of branches as the buffalo ran off without so much as another snort . |
| 9 | U-turning , he drove off in the direction of the distant city , without so much as another backward glance . |
| 10 | Vasey 's were not the be-all and end-all , she decided , then realised that , with not another word coming from her brother Sebastian , not so much as another postcard , much less a banker 's draft with his share of the mortgage , they were the only firm around that paid the sort of money she was earning . |
| 11 | The novel does not question the concept of ‘ theory ’ so much as those theories which refuse to acknowledge the fact that they are ‘ fantastic structures ’ in the mode of the hypothetical , and that their status as autonomous systems will always be compromised by their relation to their object . |
| 12 | ‘ Oh yes , they would pour out their music for something so magical as this . ’ |
| 13 | While its report is not so comprehensive as that of Readability Plus , it might be valued for a more succinct appraisal . |
| 14 | Since the blend of the wind-group is not so perfect as that of the strings , owing to the greater uniformity of tone of the latter , passages of which the texture can be resolved into its component patterns , each of which suits the individual character of some particular instrument or small group of instruments , ‘ come off ’ best on the wind . |
| 15 | What can be so easy as this when the critic has to be responsible for nothing ? |
| 16 | Inside , the two-aisled , hall church is vaulted and covered by paintings , but these are not so fine as those at Lohja and Hattula . |
| 17 | So amorous as this lovely green . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know when I 've seen anything so heavenly as that gesture of welcome she made , that smile that she mirrored . |
| 19 | She ai n't so quick as some of the others , but she 's real good at swimming . |
| 20 | A person or persons ( draughtsman , craftsman , or apprentice ) who worked at Leicester could have worked in the west country , but nowhere in the Leicester mosaics is their evidence for work so unaccomplished as that of the Gloucester pavement . |
| 21 | been organized , in many instances , on the same principles as the factory or office production line , and ’ … staffed by serried ranks of detail workers whose pay scales , if they are better than those of factory operatives or clerical workers , are perhaps not so good as those of craftsmen , and who dispose of little more working independence and authority than the production worker . |
| 22 | Mammoth 's not half so good as either . ’ |
| 23 | That she has less strength at work and has more broken time owing to bad health and especially should she be married , domestic duties and that her output is not so great as that of a man . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Fishes ' ’ songs ' , one should note , do not seem to be nearly so complex as those of birds , perhaps reflecting their lower position on the scale of consciousness and intelligence . |
| 26 | This large-scale homogeneity of the universe makes it very difficult to believe that the structure of the universe is determined by anything so peripheral as some complicated molecular structures on a minor planet orbiting a very average star in the outer suburbs of a fairly typical spiral galaxy . |
| 27 | We have had losses , but not so many as some . |
| 28 | A sense of the incongruity of things is not so unimportant as some people think . |
| 29 | Almost half the book is concerned with ‘ applications ’ , but these are theoretical applications of quantum mechanics , and this book is not so useful as such classic works as C. A. Coulson 's Valence . |
| 30 | It 's not so rough as some things , it 's not so rough as rugby but perhaps you do n't mind being a bit rough do you ? |