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 . |