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

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1 This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war .
2 This was not so heartless as it might seem .
3 However , the situation is not quite so clear as it initially appears to be : in some earlier studies poly 3-deazaadenylic acid was shown to form unusually stable 1:1 and 1:2 duplexes with poly U ( 13 ) .
4 I mean , twenty years ago when the volume of work was n't so high as it now , then erm every police officer was doing that , but because time has marched on and problems have become more an more , erm we we tend to have left the traditional way of policing behind .
5 One of the main planks of the CCAUK 's argument is that the Annual Percentage rate is not so high as it looks , since though most transactions are contracted for ( say ) 26 weeks , in fact they end up being repaid — with no series problem — in about 30 or 33 weeks , with no penalty .
6 Secondly , the raising of the school leaving age in 1947 meant that the difference between types of secondary schooling was not so marked as it had been .
7 The style of the figures is manifestly provincial and need not be so early as it looks at first glance , but it can hardly be after the mid century .
8 This last is not so easy as it may seem , but can be highly illuminating .
9 In actuality this relationship between managers and workers is not so simple as it may first appear to be .
10 Finally , there have been changes over time in the rates of divorce and marriage , although the significance of these for patterns of kin relations may be not so obvious as it first appears .
11 It 's no longer so unusual as it once was to discuss openly , in certain forums , the advantages ( and heavenly bliss ! ) of safer sex .
12 The fact that D'Oyly 's aristocratic informant said that the washermen should be paid for their service with money ( ridi ) may simply reflect the greater social distance which separated the aristocrats from the Hena , or it could be that , at that date , the distinction between commercial and non-commercial economic transactions had not yet become so clear-cut as it is today .
13 The next top up was n't so good as it only worked on one side and all the pain was concentrated in one place .
14 Food never tastes so good as it does after a long day 's hike .
15 My m my memories not nearly so good as it was .
16 Well , erm , I know the forecast is n't quite so brilliant as it has been , I think but
17 This conclusion is not so unsatisfactory as it might appear at first sight .
18 Assure you , my good liege , I hold my duty as I hold my soul , Both to my God and to my gracious King ; And I do think , or else this brain of mine Hunts not the trail of policy so sure As it hath used to do , that I have found The very cause of Hamlet 's lunacy …
19 In numbers , the Royal Navy was the strongest in the world , although its superiority was not so great as it was later to become .
20 Yet this love , so compelling , so fascinating as it grew despite everything , had been leading to destruction .
21 Loch 's reputation in Shropshire does not appear to have been so contentious as it was in Scotland , and the landscape he created in the Wealdmoors is now level ploughland of peat interspersed with rectangular plantations of poplar .
22 When the accompanying chords are detached , it is not necessary to make the melodic line quite so powerful as it has to be to come through a mass of sustained harmony .
23 It is unfortunate that this street Křižovnická is so busy as it is difficult to see .
24 And that 's not so daft as it seems you know .
25 But this is not so impressive as it appears .
26 Whether it is viewed as a physical or metaphysical symbol , the image has never been so degraded as it is today .
27 So under a Labour government , television would probably not be quite so pro-Labour as it was pro-Conservative under a Conservative government .
28 Below are the linked toy basins of the old fishing port , so small they are almost lost in the rocks , and a reminder that Biarritz was not always so big and so prosperous as it is now .
29 The approach to management is not quite so lackadaisical as it once was , but there is still a long way to go , particularly in employment policies within the companies .
30 As they parted , she pursed her lips and lifted her well-attended face , which did n't look quite so young as it had in the restaurant .
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