Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adj] [subord] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | County council officials have already gone on record as saying the humps are not so severe as to pose a major problem for the buses . |
| 2 | I am not so naive as to expect a blinding flash of understanding , but bit by bit I think I am beginning to see patterns of behaviour , and even — in some cases — to recognise individuals . |
| 3 | The variety of management tasks is often so great as to warrant a task analysis with separate skills analyses of particular tasks or groups of tasks . |
| 4 | has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one . |
| 5 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |
| 6 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |