Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] so [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All this is , of course , true for others beside old people , and it is no part of the argument to categorise old people so separately as to further stigmatise them . |
| 2 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 3 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 4 | In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable . |
| 5 | It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing . |