Example sentences of "will [adv] be so [adj] as " in BNC.

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1 ‘ My lord and all my lords here present , I will not be so suspicious as to mistrust your truths , ’ she said , her voice charged with emotion .
2 In a smaller stadium they will not be so passionate as they were when they beat the Americans in the final . ’
3 The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education .
4 A small amount of reverberation will occur in the room where the recordings are played-back , but this will usually be so slight as to be unnoticeable .
5 On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 .
6 Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere .
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