Example sentences of "so [adj] as [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The walls were no longer quite so solid as they had seemed , and each white-suited attendant seemed to conceal an assassin dressed in black . |
| 2 | This is not so hypocritical as it sounds for Godwin hated violence and war . |
| 3 | To backtrack a little , the case is perhaps not so monolithic as I have implied : for which we have to return to the detail of Callinicos ' ‘ No ’ to Lukács . |
| 4 | The Warden ( Vice-Chancellor ) Duff assured them that he was now not nearly so odd as he was when he had known him at the choir school of King 's College . |
| 5 | The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry . |
| 6 | All of which goes to show that masculine reason and logic are perhaps not so strong as you may have supposed . |
| 7 | The French are not so polite as they were 15 years ago . |
| 8 | This was not so heartless as it might seem . |
| 9 | He looked so frail as I watched Gavin help him out of the car , followed by the cat basket . |
| 10 | He may be shy at first , but after a while he will get over that : he is not half so shy as he was , of course not . |
| 11 | You can see so little as you blunder on that you are an easy target for any animal seeking fresh meat . |
| 12 | So it 's not so unbelievable as you think . ’ |
| 13 | At the start she is only so cruel as she is only Miss Havisham 's tool for revenge , and later she seems to have a little pity for Pip when she warns him that she has no heart . |
| 14 | We are not so sensible as we ought to be of the Providence which hourly sustains us . |
| 15 | 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 ) . |
| 16 | Lucifer 's face was so devil-like as he said it that he frightened even Izzie , a thing he had never done on stage . |
| 17 | Though interest rates have also been very high indeed , the support which North Sea oil has given sterling has perhaps tended to stop them rising so high as they might otherwise have done . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | There were weaknesses — batteries were neither so good nor so light as they are today and in any case this was the first step . |
| 22 | this frog so interesting as I inspect its most secret |
| 23 | They d they do it all , they do it throughout the year we just , we just do n't there 's just not so many of them , and we do n't read about them so much as we do before big elections . |
| 24 | Well only in so much as we do n't get big bills . |
| 25 | The changes proposed by these authors in so much as they relate to the agriculture/nature conservation conflict in the UK uplands are summarised below . |
| 26 | I think this motion is addressing the problem of Cambridge city and that the people that we feel we should be erm affiliating in so much as they need the housing . |
| 27 | Linnet — who could doubt it ? — had endured untold agonies beneath her cool , just a shade too persistent smile , finding little consolation , perhaps , but hardly so much as she had pretended , in the renewed attentions of Uriah Colclough . |
| 28 | It occurred to her suddenly that she had rarely enjoyed herself so much as she was now doing , seated in Dr Neil 's kitchen , dressed like a skivvy and eating a huge meal , rather than languidly nibbling at it , as she would have done at one of Aunt Nella 's ‘ At Homes ’ . |
| 29 | ‘ You heard so much as I did , Miss Buckley . |
| 30 | They threw me from the battlements into the sea , but the rocks were merciless and did not kill me , though I have never longed for death so much as I did then . |