Example sentences of "[am/are] [adv] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I must admit I acted with the thought that I could interest you , that some attention would not be unwelcome — I hope I am not so insensitive as to force my company on anyone without some indication on their part — and there was interest , was n't there ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 6 | Hard hitting criticism and savage satire can generally be successfully defended as honest comment , so long as the exaggerations are not so extreme as to indicate malice . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ In golf , customs of etiquette and decorum are just as important as rules governing play , ’ he wrote . |
| 9 | a link we 're not so daft as to disparage — |
| 10 | So that you have your they 're not so daft as to know that two people who are going to come and live even if Richard 's away half the time . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | And another thing you see they 're not as long as look , look |
| 13 | In addition there are constraints imposed by the Soviet economy itself : it is likely that , as Cole Blasier suggests , ‘ Soviet resources are still so limited as to discourage purely political use . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | I mean , I 'm not that rude as to say that 's for the payment of allowances , but some people may say that . |
| 16 | I mean , I 'm not that rude as to say that 's for the payment of allowances , but some people may say that . |
| 17 | I 'd like to think that it was remorse that made you come sobbing into Adam 's arms that way , but I 'm not so naïve as to believe it . |
| 18 | ‘ Okay , but I 'm not so interesting as flying a seaplane . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . ’ |
| 20 | However in America , where addictions are almost as mandatory as seeing the ‘ shrink ’ , a new wave of ‘ ca n't do withouts ’ has unleashed itself on society . |
| 21 | Finnis , on behalf of Aquinas , would doubtless be disposed to argue that Kelsen admits and he excludes any content whatever but if the general requirements of justice are indeed so indeterminate as to allow of even contradictory determinations then this objection falls . |