Example sentences of "so [adv] [adj] as [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ How can you be so utterly selfish as to uproot the child from her home and school at this stage , when nothing has been finally decided by the court ? |
| 2 | It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge . |
| 3 | The eminence referred to is not a striking local geographical feature , and the ‘ small Rivulet ’ is presumably the Fleet River , which was so often flash-flooded as to give the area towards Battle Bridge ( Kings Cross ) the name of ‘ Pancras Wash ’ . |
| 4 | At the Swan Hotel in Stratford , Mrs Roscoe had just completed her evening meal , a concoction of beans so splendidly bleak as to delight the most dedicated Vegan . |
| 5 | I was subsequently Chief Constable of the combined Sheffield and Rotherham Police Force which whilst a joint committee , still regarded so very much as serving the two separate authorities and finally I was Chief in a Metropolitan country , with a county council and a police committee and I 'm quite sure that the police were much more sensitive to the needs and the wishes of their local communities when you were sitting at one of those , not necessarily police committee meetings , but the county council meetings , when they discussed the minutes of the police authority . |