Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as to suggest " in BNC.
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| 1 | We would not be so brave as to suggest that ‘ anyone ’ can build their own computer . |
| 2 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 3 | Of course , he is n't so naive as to suggest that he has some privileged hot-line to the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 4 | Hooliganism involving Dutch supporters has become so frequent as to suggest that another blanket ban of a nation 's clubs might be necessary . |
| 5 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 6 | According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ . |
| 7 | Some people were so bold as to suggest that he had now lost his grip and was writing pretty fair garbage . |
| 8 | There was the contact with friendly adults , but not so close as to suggest to the children that their real parents were being supplanted — a common resentment in foster homes . |
| 9 | Neither Boswell nor Johnson would have been so damningly ungracious as to suggest ( as other Scottish cities accused ) , that in the interests of free drink Aberdeen 's city fathers were promiscuous with their honours . |