Example sentences of "quite so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had been expecting him to call , though not quite so soon as this . |
| 2 | Richard was still not allowed to speak — he was not recovering quite so fast as had been expected — and he could make little reply when Laura told him that this was exactly the kind of thing she had expected all along , and that she would see about disposing of Lord Jim immediately . |
| 3 | As one , the six typewriters began clacking again , not perhaps quite so loudly as their operators strained to hear the rest of the conversation . |
| 4 | Not quite so confidently as in Stratford ; or in Oxford , of course , where he had memorised whole sentences from the Jan Morris guide . |
| 5 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 6 | We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’ |
| 7 | Er quite so today as it used to be . |
| 8 | Chung gains too from the fact that she is not balanced quite so closely as Perlman . |
| 9 | People just did n't take themselves quite so seriously as they do at Crufts . |
| 10 | If he did not go quite so far as Eric Linklater in believing that what Mary was doing down at Kirk o' Field during the last days of Darnley 's life in February 1567 was indulging a ‘ womanly zeal for nursing ’ , he certainly had no doubt of her innocence . |
| 11 | Perhaps few of the inhabitants went quite so far as the parents of Fly-Fornication Richardson of Waldron or Small-hope Biggs of Rye in their statements of religious principle , but a dominant number of the eastern rural and urban elite found their religious and political sympathies increasingly divorced from the fumbling attempts of the Stuarts to impose their image of the monarchy . |
| 12 | The Flower of Chivalry did not go quite so far as that . |
| 13 | Again Balfour 's account is in substantial agreement , although he adds the gloss that when , at one stage in his summing up he referred to his assumption that Asquith would not serve under either Law or Lloyd George , Asquith intervened to say that he had not gone quite so far as that ; he must consult his friends before giving a final answer . |
| 14 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Fenella , who had not really been thinking in terms of armies and battles quite so definitely as this . |
| 15 | No man , nor even a dog , a monkey or a dolphin , would be fooled quite so readily as the robin , though we too react according to habituated mental patterns . |