Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] as make [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education .
2 Particularly in the early period , moreover , the number of usages one comes across is so low as to make definition a hazardous business .
3 A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers — the variety is so large as to make description impossible .
4 The use of prose for mockery in Much Ado about Nothing is so widespread as to make illustration superfluous .
5 Enter Ulrich Zwingli ( 1484–1531 ) , one of the most zealously dedicated of all the religious reformers , a man whose opposition to traditional beliefs and practices was so extreme as to make Luther ( with whom he quarrelled ) look mild .
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