Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1	He is not so light-hearted now as he used to be — too much responsibility .
2	In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week .
3	Perhaps because something called a stoup in a church was not so interesting enough as he had thought . ’
4	It is probably a fact that few people have ever thought about , but a fact nonetheless , that nights are not so dark now as they used to be .
5	All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf .
6	Be so good now as to march these miscreants to Mutton House .
7	The excellence attributed to precious substances which made them so useful both as symbols of successful emulation and as expressions of love and regard extended to other matters of keen interest to individuals .
8	There had been little birdsong in the devastated places I had come from and I think it was the striking on my ear of the calling of a blackbird , so meaningful somehow as it sounded out clearly from the delicious chatter in those trees that made me feel the war was over .
9	But that 's not so far off as I am , I thought you were much younger than I .
10	This is a small town of some character , a historic strong point standing up above the Gave , in which there are competitions in summer to catch the surviving salmon , no longer so abundant here as in the good medieval days .
11	And then er then I mean er , was n't so big then as it is now .
12	How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people .
13	At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart .

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