Example sentences of "so [adj] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Product names therefore should not be so specific as to exclude wider use where appropriate . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | More importantly , the financial and time pressures on heads of houses have become so acute as to leave little appetite among senior publishing people for taking on additional responsibilities . |
| 4 | The reason for this is that the linguistic , social and educational environments of the two countries may be so different as to provide different opportunities for language learning . |
| 5 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 6 | It is true that the actual distribution of property in society is far from equal ; but it is not so skewed as to give any individual a monopoly of economic power . |
| 7 | " Adrian , " she said in a level voice that surprised her , " if you so much as lay one finger on me , I swear I 'll tear you to pieces . |
| 8 | The new Lady Woodleigh looked as if she might take her riding-crop to him if he so much as uttered another word . |
| 9 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 10 | That core of meaning is necessarily general and vague enough to make such variations possible , but it is not so vague as to permit any meaning whatsoever to be placed on the word . |
| 11 | These goals never are ( never can be ) so explicit as to exclude all subjectivity in interpreting performance against them . |
| 12 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 13 | The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child , however . |
| 14 | However , if collocations like ’ weak tea ’ and ’ powerful car ’ are so numerous as to evade any method of acquisition other than years of learning , how then should a machine-readable collocation dictionary be compiled ? |
| 15 | Programmes of study should be so constructed as to give all pupils the opportunity to enjoy work in a wide range of literary forms . |
| 16 | As for O'Leary , it is 3½ years since he had the car accident which left him with a back injury so severe as to necessitate three operations . |
| 17 | So far I have discussed two attempts to distinguish the different types of political system in terms of an evolutionary scheme ; one of them ( that of Spencer ) being so abstract as to have little value in establishing a precise historical sequence , while the other ( that of Marx ) possesses less of an evolutionary character than may at first sight appear and leaves unsolved many problems in the construction of an adequate typology of precapitalist and capitalist societies . |
| 18 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 19 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 20 | The supply of left-handed clubs is so insufficient as to deter those left-handers who may be considering taking up the sport . |
| 21 | In the evening there was an example of a shift in emphasis that was so pronounced as to cause that part of the day to become an event in its own right . |
| 22 | ‘ Then , if you would also remain here for a few moments , Madame Ash , perhaps Madame Craig would be so kind as to come this way ? ’ |
| 23 | Alone of the Pacific species , N. emarginata shows something like a comparable variation in shell shape with exposure ( Crothers , 1984 ) , but the shell is so thin as to afford little protection from crabs regardless of its shape ( Kitching , 1976 ) and an ability to resist desiccation could be of great value to this highQQintertidal species in sites protected from continuous spray . |
| 24 | As Alexander ( 1982 , p. 30 ) notes , agency agreements , superimposed ‘ on an already complicated allocation ’ of local authority functions , have added to the confusion experienced by consumers in service provision and ‘ ensured that the processes of public accountability and democratic control would be so convoluted as to raise serious doubts about their effectiveness ’ . |
| 25 | The reference to specific information only , can be best explained by the need to ensure that the definition of inside information is not so wide as to include legitimate research undertaken by investment analysts . |
| 26 | I have argued throughout this paper against the various theories that hold that human aggression is so formidable as to require special mechanisms for handling or redirection . |