Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And how interesting was the way in which it took advantage of so little light as to shine enough for me to see it so clearly . |
| 2 | Blanket speed limits applied to all vehicles must be set at such a low figure as to ensure reasonable safety with the most badly designed vehicle when it is in the worst acceptable state of maintenance . |
| 3 | The attraction of such films lies apparently in the offer of illicit sexual pleasure to men whose sexual confidence is at such a low ebb as to make them unlikely or unable to resist . |
| 4 | The effects of ( b ) arise when barriers are of such a high level as to prevent any entry into the market . |
| 5 | In his second novel , The Inheritors , Golding has stood so far back from modern historical progress as to imagine the supersession of innocent , hairy Neanderthalers by ‘ bone-face men ’ in a prehistoric age : they wear clothes or , as the primitive eye sees it , they step outside their skins . |
| 6 | Since no firm of solicitors can ever afford to retain the services of any employee or partner whose conduct tends to reflect ill on the reputation of the practice , and since the circumstances may rarely be so clear cut as to secure withdrawal from the firm by consent , thorough consideration must be given at the outset to the conditions for expelling partners . |
| 7 | However , When we come to more detailed considerations — such as exactly where this ‘ golden age ’ is to be located in real historical time — then we are confronted with such a disorderly jumble of datemarks and vague historical allusion as to allow for wide margins of disagreement even among dedicated ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts . |
| 8 | Those in the network may be so closely involved with the old person as to become part of the family system ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 9 | The spate of defaults in the ECP market , and the default of Polly Peck in the SCP market in 1990 , however , brought into question whether such a system provided adequate information as to credit standards for the investor . |
| 10 | I had persuaded myself that there was no such long-continued action on this dictum as to render it improper in this House to reconsider the question . |
| 11 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 12 | One deals with ‘ lack of care ’ in that a failure to fence a pond resulted in a verdict of such negligence as to justify a verdict of manslaughter . |
| 13 | The stream was in full spate , rushing over its stony bed with such force as to make the way across the stepping-stones hazardous for George and Bob . |
| 14 | As has been seen , the most diligent organiser of plant transport from the West was Peter Collinson and much relevant correspondence will be found in William Darlington 's The memorials of John Bartram and Humphry Marshall ( 1849 ) where the author considered sea captains of such importance as to merit a special index . |
| 15 | To isolate the trend , we must use a moving average of such period as to eliminate the seasonal effects . |
| 16 | To everyone 's amazement , she rushed to the defence of the driver who , in ferrying her to and from the course at Cely , had been so late on the second day as to put her in real fear of missing her starting time . |
| 17 | The main aims will be to : ( a ) identify particular commercial/legal problems of such magnitude as to cause the investor to withdraw or adjust its terms , including the price , either directly or indirectly through indemnities ; ( b ) flush out any unknown or understated liabilities and ensure the vendor will deliver good title ( free from encumbrances ) to the assets ; ( c ) ascertain more precisely the worth of the target business to the buyer and to provide an effective means of valuing the shares or the assets ; and ( d ) provide a clear understanding of how the business functions , including the operation of its financial and management systems . |
| 18 | Accordingly , it is hoped that the above definitions have sufficiently outlined the nature of Catholic Religious and Moral Education as to make it clear that the concepts described in the Arrangements document are an integral part of the content of Catholic religious and moral teaching . |
| 19 | The word ‘ natural ’ will still be allowed , says the Ministry of Agriculture 's Food Advisory Committee , for ‘ single foods of a traditional nature to which nothing has been added and which have been subjected only to such processing as to render them suitable for human consumption . |
| 20 | LEEDS opened and finished this Regal Trophy second-round game at Headingley with tries of such quality as to mollify their followers for all the dross in between . |
| 21 | He began attending evening classes in the Mechanics ' Institute and ‘ thereby developed the gifts of teaching and speaking , and habits of thought and reading , with so much success as to mark him out as one called of God ’ . |
| 22 | Descartes , René ( 1596–1650 ) A philosopher of such significance as to give rise to a school of thought in his name , Cartesianism . |
| 23 | Alternatively the Director General may confirm he has decided not to refer the agreement to the Court where : ( a ) any directly applicable provision of EC law applies to the agreement ; ( b ) the agreement has expired or has been terminated ; ( c ) all the relevant restrictions have been removed ; ( d ) the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has discharged the Director General from his duty to take proceedings where he is satisfied that the restrictions are not of such significance as to call for investigation by the Court . |
| 24 | If the company has more than 50 members then , unless the register is kept in such form as to constitute an index of names of the members , such an index must also be kept in the same place as the register . |
| 25 | ‘ It was a little alarming ’ , I wrote , ‘ to think there was anyone so far above human weakness as to have none . |
| 26 | Indeed some propositions falling into the second category are of such little weight as to amount to virtually no authority at all , while others are so significant as to be more important than those apparently of binding authority . |
| 27 | Neither of her parents were church-goers and her father had so far lapsed from his native Catholicism as to despise and detest ‘ the whole primitive priestly caboodle ’ , as he called it . |
| 28 | Admittedly , it was a rather small marvel , but one of such grotesque rarity as to excite the deepest interest , and to earn the highest possible commendation for its discoverer . |
| 29 | ‘ I suborned Aubrey Rivington into so far forgetting his professional integrity as to give me an illicit copy of that photograph . |
| 30 | Depending on the circumstances and the provisions of the partnership agreement : ( 1 ) he may be justified in treating the service of an invalid expulsion notice as an event which in turn gives him the right to serve a similar notice ; or ( 2 ) he may ( not unreasonably ) be able to contend that the service of an invalid notice is such breach of good faith as to justify his seeking a dissolution of the firm ; or ( 3 ) he may be tempted to sue for damages , though these would be particularly difficult to quantify and it does not seem that the service of an invalid notice would be held to amount to a repudiatory breach of the partnership agreementsee Woodar Investment Development Ltd v Wimpey Construction UK Ltd [ 1980 ] 1 WLR 277. ( e ) Waiver of the right to expel Once circumstances exist which might justify the exercise of a power to expel , the partners should not delay bringing matters to a head . |