Example sentences of "be so low as " in BNC.

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1 In fact , benefits are so low as to make it difficult for a woman and her children to live on them , which puts pressure on her to find another male supporter .
2 In 1932 , for example , Mrs Q. D. Leavis had roundly condemned the cheapening and weakening influences of the popular press and popular novels which produced ‘ merely crude states of mind ’ and what she called ‘ the disintegration of the reading public ’ : ‘ The reading capacity of the general public , it must be concluded , has never been so low as at the present time . ’
3 This is shown by prices in the " grey market " which are often reported to be so low as to negate all of the gross fees , thus absorbing all of the underwriters ' risk premium .
4 On Jan. 8 the Defence Ministry sought to justify its operation against draft-dodgers by declaring that conscription levels were so low as to threaten national security .
5 Particularly in the early period , moreover , the number of usages one comes across is so low as to make definition a hazardous business .
6 This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function .
7 I 've managed to scan it in , but the resolution is so low as to make it unread- able .
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