Example sentences of "so small as " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chances of any of her acquaintance passing at this moment and noting that she , Phoebe Petherington , was entering the evil portals of a private hospital , were , she admitted , so small as to be risible , but that did not allay her shame . |
| 2 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day . |
| 4 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 5 | The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education . |
| 6 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 7 | There is a very slight rise in death-rate in those who are mildly overweight , grade 1 , and also in those who are underweight , grade-1. but this low rise is so small as to be insignificant . |
| 8 | A survival of Second Empire technology could be so small as to be incapable of spreading its influence , or the science could have survived but not the necessary manufacturing techniques for its propagation . |
| 9 | The nett magnetic effect from contra-rotating magnetic fields can be so small as to get buried in noise . |
| 10 | She chose a slightly flared skirt of fawn flannel , plain white silk shirt with a demurely high neckline , a jacket in soft pastel-brown tweed with a standing collar , absolutely plain but very expensive Italian court shoes and a matching handbag that was small enough to be ladylike but not so small as to seem frivolous . |
| 11 | Most churches had larger windows inserted later to give greater light to the interior , but the Durham examples were not so small as usual . |
| 12 | Actually it would be fairer just to say that , in comparison with the time it would take either a monkey or a randomly programmed computer to type our target phrase , the total age of the universe so far is a negligibly small quantity , so small as to be well within the margin of error for this sort of back-of-an-envelope calculation . |