Example sentences of "so [adj] as [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 2 | It would , for example , be no defence for the seller to say that his farm fertiliser was perfectly safe and effective when applied in the right concentration ( at the right time of the year ) if the instructions supplied with the fertiliser stated in error the wrong concentration , whether too weak to be effective or so strong as to kill the crops . |
| 3 | Such an agency generates a repulsive force which eventually becomes so strong as to halt the contraction of the object and to make it ‘ bounce ’ . |
| 4 | She had not sunk so low as to join the ranks of that sisterhood ! |
| 5 | Priced at just under £30,000 , however , the Alpine offers so much for so little as to question the morality of widening the scope of supercar ownership far beyond those dedicated few prepared to invest in the high level of training to drive one safely . |
| 6 | Finally , the concept was a formula for expressing the fact that , in our system , ‘ the principles of private law have … been by the action of the Courts and Parliament so extended as to determine the position of the Crown and of its servants ’ . |
| 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 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
| 9 | Let us discuss what his ransom should be , since you are so generous as to entertain the possibility , and I will get for you full assurance that he shall be restrained from ever infringing your territory or your person again . |
| 10 | He went to the village school in Crawcrook , where his abilities were so marked as to attract the attention of his father 's landlord , Sir Thomas Liddell ( later first Baron Ravensworth ) , to whose collieries in Killingworth , Northumberland , he was sent in April 1811 to learn the business of a viewer or colliery manager . |
| 11 | Naturally , the new dwellings had to be so arranged as to satisfy the requirements of building regulations and a significant stipulation of the old Constructional By-laws for Inner London under which this design was produced , related to the amount of daylight which must be admitted to habitable rooms . |
| 12 | Nobody had so much as breathed the word ‘ Wages ’ . |
| 13 | But by that time a renewed coalition and a coalition election would not be arranged to get a mandate for war so much as to reap the benefits of victory . |
| 14 | If an ant , searching the twig for food , so much as touches the barrier of infertile eggs with its antennae , it recoils violently and may even lose its footing and fall . |
| 15 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 16 | ‘ You could n't so much as bruise the mosses on it but I 'd know . |
| 17 | She had the feeling he would swallow her whole if she so much as rippled the surface . |
| 18 | And he stops at cafés , for a sit-down with a beer or an apéritif or a coffee , without so much as noticing the prices , or whether it is too near lunchtime . |
| 19 | Such an approach does not usually analyse nationalism so much as confirm the claims of the nationalist . |
| 20 | Listening to the first day 's proceedings , I found myself not transported into the future so much as revisiting the past . |
| 21 | Whereas Gaston had managed to buy a small boat to go fishing , Marius had not so much as managed the purchase of two matching garden chairs . |
| 22 | Our intention has not been to present any firm typology so much as to indicate the possibilities for variations in visionary style , and to map out some important dimensions of visionary leadership . |
| 23 | ‘ If Daniel knocked on that door now , dying with the cold , I 'd not so much as cross the room . ’ |
| 24 | He said he knew what you were up to and I would lock the door against you if I so much as guessed the half of it . |
| 25 | Unless the seller commits a breach of condition or commits a breach of warranty which is so serious as to deprive the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract , the buyer has no right to reject the goods or recover the price ( see paragraph 7–04 above ) . |
| 26 | Rather than once again review the authorities in chronological order , therefore , I propose to encapsulate their effect in a number of propositions which can , I believe , be so stated as to reflect the law as it is presently understood with a reasonable degree of accuracy . |
| 27 | He and his advisers were so dismayed as to misread the letter , for the reply makes it clear that they understood the meeting of the princes to have taken place already . |
| 28 | Each of these assumptions is so questionable as to put the onus of proof very heavily on the trade unions . |
| 29 | What is more , Locke 's interpretation of what consent involves is so accommodating as to evacuate the notion of much substance . |
| 30 | The high regard with which the instructor force was held was best summed up by the comment that , ‘ Instructors are good professionals but not so sophisticated as to bemuse the trainees ’ . |