Example sentences of "[adj] as [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It flattered his vanity to think himself in love with me ; it also gave him , I believe , some unadmitted pleasure constantly to long for my flesh and yet always to forbid himself the attaining of it : to deny himself was just as exciting as to indulge himself . |
| 2 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 3 | For smaller companies , especially those engaged in craft industries , the combined cost of monitoring equipment , inspection and certification is proving so high as to threaten their existence . |
| 4 | He blamed the fall of the city on the impiety and general degeneracy of the people , who had been so foolish as to ally themselves with Christians in the first place . |
| 5 | Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose . |
| 6 | How could she have been so foolish as to imagine he had issued the invitation on a personal level ? |
| 7 | Johnson declared himself in favour of such prescribed succession : ‘ His opinion was that so much land should be entailed as that families should never fall into contempt , and as much left free as to give them all the advantages in case of any emergency . ’ |
| 8 | She begged pardon at once for — being so free as to presume I will be read but then , ma'am , you must blame yourself for encouraging in me that letter-writing soul . |
| 9 | Anyone in Hong Kong with a problem — be it so trivial as to know which horse to place a bet on , or so crucial as to know whom to marry — can ask the god Won Tai Sin , whose temple is to be found in the middle of a vast housing estate in north Kowloon , and who came to fame by turning boulders into sheep . |
| 10 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 11 | It can not be the cheap medals and worthless trophies they hope to accumulate and the chances of making big money are so tiny as to make it untenable as a career . |
| 12 | Having been primed by Draper back in the hotel room on who played or produced what , Branson would present himself with a box of tapes and play just one track by each artist ; enough to whet the appetite , but not so much as to test his customer 's patience — or indeed Branson 's own musical knowledge . |
| 13 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |
| 14 | Again , we see the need for flexibility in the control structure , with each component being given enough free rein to contribute fully , but not so much as to force it to take decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence . |
| 15 | Which means , if I 'm not mistaken , that you have n't come here to offer me my son back so much as to ask me to relieve you of Miss Gristy . |
| 16 | For the duration of the war , British and American diplomats performed a nerve-racking balancing act , providing just enough credit and material aid ( especially grain and petroleum ) to prevent Franco from going over completely to the Axis , but not so much as to enable him to become strong enough to dispense with maintaining relations with them . |
| 17 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 18 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |
| 19 | In this cake-and-eat-it arrangement , no one possessor could sell off the estate , yet in Johnson 's view , the landowner should have enough over and above the inheritance to bargain with , should he need to raise cash by sale or mortgage , but never so much as to disinherit his succeeding generations . |
| 20 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 21 | That 's as much as to tell me that you would be hovering round me like a vulture , waiting till the breath was out of my body , that you might go and marry someone else . ’ |
| 22 | The cat gave a whimper , as much as to tell its mistress what a terrible time it had had . |
| 23 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |
| 24 | ‘ May one be so inquisitive as to enquire what that is ? ’ |
| 25 | On 17 July 1559 , the answer was a scolding letter from her husband the king of France to lord James , marvelling that he , who ‘ has the honour to be so near the Queen 's Grace , my wife … should be so forgetful as to make yourself the head … of the tumults and seditions ’ ; only six days later did the queen get round to sending a similarly plaintive message herself . |
| 26 | ‘ 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 28 | The ‘ Coriatachan in Sky ’ passage , the first of the great Hebridean discourses in Johnson 's Journey , displays a writer confident that he is imparting information and reflection in sufficient quantities to excite both the reader 's thought and imagination — and yet not so lengthy as to bore them , nor so brief as to frustrate them . |
| 29 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 30 | That is not to say it is the recommended method , once you have started the latch tool method of working ribs it becomes so fast as to make you wonder why you did n't try it before . |