Example sentences of "[adv] so [adj] as [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise .
2 However , they 're not so stupid as to allow the adventurers to forge such a document right in front of them and get away with it .
3 When you are making these settings , go for levels which give good , solid recordings but are not so high as to overload the tape on signal peaks .
4 An " optimum " rate of population growth could be considered one which while it increases the labour supply , is not so fast as to outgrow the supportive powers of the economy and prevent income per head from rising .
5 However , he is not so undiplomatic as to resist the horrendous hospitality of overindulgent underdeveloped countries .
6 The high regard with which the instructor force was held was best summed up by the comment that , ‘ Instructors are good professionals but not so sophisticated as to bemuse the trainees ’ .
7 The top end cuts through while the bass is not so fat as to mask the octave strings , but retains enough warmth to sound smooth and chunky on power chords .
8 Burial and fossilization changes are often so extensive as to obscure the primary modifications which must be identified in order to understand the mechanisms of accumulation of the bones .
9 A local priest was even so bold as to call the system ‘ a home-brew democracy … .
10 There may even have been a certain temperamental affinity between Baden-Powell 's Scouting philosophy and the restless energies of Hooliganism , and he was even so outrageous as to recommend the Hooligans to the National Defence Association as ‘ the best class of boy ’ : Predictably , his remarks invited the characteristic reversal of the problem , when a member of the National Defence Association asked :
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