Example sentences of "nothing so [adj] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is nothing so soul-destroying as living from day to day with no purpose . |
| 2 | Nothing so absolute as sex . |
| 3 | ‘ Nothing so little as grace at first , and nothing more glorious afterward : things of greatest perfection are longest in coming to their growth … |
| 4 | ‘ There is nothing so fascinating as other people 's disputes . ’ |
| 5 | Even the bars and foyers are reminiscent of nothing so much as an airport lounge , an impression reinforced by the tannoy announcements of five , three and one minute calls for Casablanca . |
| 6 | But seen from within , they appear to be like nothing so much as a mirror-image of the Elizabethan world picture : a little world , tightly organised into its own ranks and with its own rules , as rigid in its own way as the most elaborate protocol at court or ritual in church . |
| 7 | Making all due allowance for the return of historical tragedy as farce , watching this soporific monolith of the virtuous rise out of the debris of a liberating movement is akin to nothing so much as witnessing Bureaucracy emerge from the ashes of Revolution . |
| 8 | From the moment he modelled himself on Mussolini , he resembled nothing so much as an actor touring the provinces in a play which someone else had made a success of in London . |
| 9 | The system would resemble nothing so much as the ‘ democratic centralism ’ much beloved of Leninist and Maoist governments . |
| 10 | There are several more groups of odd echinoderms in the Lower Palaeozoic rocks — some of them only recently discovered , like the bizarre helicoplacoids , which look like nothing so much as spinning tops ( see p. 84 ) . |
| 11 | It has long been held to look like a cello , but the elliptical window above the door looks like a beak to me , so that with the round windows above the upper façade looks nothing so much as a chick wearing a Napoleonic hat . |
| 12 | To Robyn 's eye it resembled nothing so much as a medieval painting of hell — though it was hard to say whether the workers looked more like devils or the damned . |
| 13 | The last time I had seen ‘ Reading ’ in Cammell Laird 's yard , on a fleeting autumn visit , she had resembled nothing so much as a squashed Nestle 's milk tin . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He enjoyed nothing so much as sensual pleasures , and drank and womanised to excess . |
| 16 | In another , she was a small speck overwhelmed by a vast and writhing darkness that reminded her of nothing so much as pictures she had seen on the cover of Tcherkassoff 's album Black Holes , and Other Singularities . |
| 17 | In these first few years of NME , the paper 's style recalls nothing so much as a Pathé newsreel crossed with Harry Enfield 's Mr Cholmondoley-Warner character ; stuffy , uncontentious and groaning under the weight of its own deference to the celebrities . |
| 18 | Astonishing is a bureau-bookcase of the 1760s , by which time the cool winds of classicism had tamed Piffetti 's rococo ardour , where the marquetry resembles nothing so much as a stylish product of Parisian 1930s Art-Deco . |
| 19 | Passing swiftly over the visual arts bit — a series of paintings of living artists by Zsuzsi Roboz suggestive of nothing so much as chalk drawings on the pavements of Charing Cross Road — Mr Roosen is also offering ‘ complementary and holistic programmes for use in the private and corporate sectors worldwide ’ . |
| 20 | This increasingly comes to resemble nothing so much as Sartre 's own account of History . |
| 21 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |
| 22 | The entire organisation , with its membership of eccentric senior officers and local groups of para-military ladies on the look-out for the Red Menace , seems like nothing so much as raw material for a comic novel of post-war manners . |
| 23 | President Bush has yet to be convinced that ‘ going green ’ will translate into real votes come the presidential election later in the year , and his advisers ( who enjoy nothing so much as bashing a few Greens on the media before breakfast ) have sown so many doubts in his mind about ‘ the lack of scientific evidence ’ that global warming is not seen to be one of the challenges he now faces — despite the fact that his country is responsible for nearly 30 per cent of all emissions of carbon dioxide , the main greenhouse gas . |
| 24 | The two basic amino-terminal α-helices sit in the major groove so that they are perpendicular to one another on opposite sides of the DNA duplex ; they resemble nothing so much as a pair of short chopsticks . |
| 25 | Todd had n't spoken in over a minute , but there was a harshness on the line that Ellwood knew to be his breathing , and a thin , reedy , barely audible sound behind that , which resembled nothing so much as a cry that had been buried alive . |
| 26 | There was a dining-room , which he said he never used , on the north side of the house , and another room which resembled nothing so much as a second-hand bookshop ; a chaos of books — shelves of books , stacks of books , piles of magazines and newspapers , and one large and evidently newly arrived parcel that lay unopened on a desk by the window . |
| 27 | The grey ovoid , some distance away , expanded and contracted in a movement which reminded Ace of nothing so much as chewing , although there was no way that she could see whereby the fruit could have been transmitted from one part of Legion to another . |
| 28 | Nor was Vivien Saunders , who recently won her second British Coach of the Year award , being wise after the event when she talked of how , in her teaching , she emphasises nothing so much as that a youngster should attack the hole . |
| 29 | Even so , I was looking forward to nothing so much as a long hot soak in the bath . |
| 30 | But when she quickly added a white lace fichu and a long , lacy shawl , the effect reminded her of nothing so much as the icing on her daughter 's wedding cake . |