Example sentences of "so [adj] as [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bathrooms and modern amenities were added to them all but great care was taken to ensure the original character of the buildings was retained , and in fact the original ambience has been left so intact as to produce a veritable living museum of simple , rustic life as it used to be . |
| 2 | Its basis is the naturally occurring substance uranium , an element which under certain circumstances can be made to become so unstable as to produce an explosive force . |
| 3 | These are two squares , of equivalent dimensions , so interlaced as to produce an eight-pointed star or an eight pointed rosette . |
| 4 | I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter 's lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution , Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban ( This Week , 3 March , p 567 ) . |
| 5 | But , as we have seen , there is no evidence that unfair credit refusal is so widespread as to justify an elaborate system for redress ( and statutory bodies already exist which have the duty to hunt down cases of real discrimination on grounds of sex or race ) . |
| 6 | In contrast , amounts of methylated oligonucleotide in lane 3 are so large as to cause an extended area of blurred , saturated blackening of the film . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 9 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |
| 10 | At times , these images may be so powerful as to demand an immediate response . |
| 11 | My conclusion of the strength of her faith is that her convictions are in fact not so deep-seated or so fundamental as to constitute an immutable decision by her as to her way of life — or her way of death . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ Cheryl , I wonder if you would be so kind as to cast a professional eye over the experimental laboratories for me . ’ |
| 14 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 15 | For our decade-conscious brains , an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle . |
| 16 | Perhaps the immediate and justified reaction was that the proposals in the Green Paper were so sketchy as to pose an unenviable choice between ‘ a crude centralist and an equally crude local authority solution ’ . |
| 17 | Fourth , the budget should be so organized as to permit a quick and meaningful measurement of its impact on the national economy as a whole . |