Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adj] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 2 | How could he be so offensive as to stare at the chap 's disfigured face , he wondered . |
| 3 | Would his Imperial Majesty the Shah be so good as to pause in Marrakesh on his way to the US ? |
| 4 | One of my colonies of mushroom polyps , reddish brown specimens which I think are a Ricordea species , killed a bushy sea whip ( Plexaurelia ) which happened to be so close as to come into contact , when it deflated . |
| 5 | Other adjustments may be so serious as to amount to jettisoning a carefully worked-out position . |
| 6 | Some larger churches can be so impersonal that to think in terms of ‘ joining ’ is as meaningless as joining the cinema ! |
| 7 | Did the accused intend that the period of his keeping the machinery would be so long as to amount to an outright taking ? |
| 8 | How can the creature be so clever as to weave with beak and feet alone a tapestry no human fingers , however deft , could ever hope to imitate ? |
| 9 | In all cases , educational desirability must be balanced against practicality and system availability , and these restrictions may be so severe as to result in the rejection of the design idea . |
| 10 | The address to send stuff to is DR BUTCHER ( MD ) , COMMODORE FORCE , So , if Nurse Enema would be so kind as to wheel in the first vict … erm patient , I 'll sharpen my instruments . |
| 11 | So , if you would be so kind as to get into a position where you can see what I 'm doing without being too close it means that if we do splash any acid by accident er the likelihood of it causing any problems to anyone are minimal . |
| 12 | However , atherosclerosis appears to be more extensive and to develop at an earlier age in diabetic patients ( Robertson & Strong , 1968 ) . |
| 13 | And , notwithstanding the very high authority of Lord Coke , I think it is not the fact that to accept prompt payment of a part only of a liquidated demand can never be more beneficial than to insist on payment of the whole . |
| 14 | In contrast to the UK , German industrial policies seem to be more consistent and to evolve from a strong , integrated network of organisations . |
| 15 | Mr Berge asked what could be more appropriate than to open with a French composer ? |
| 16 | Now she took care to change the subject and what could be more natural than to talk to the vet and his sister about Faustina and to speculate on what she might be doing at this moment . |
| 17 | Truly , to be always happy and to pass through life without a mental pang is to be ignorant of one half of nature . ’ |