Example sentences of "[adj] as [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have to do this as to suppress anger is to turn our negativity inward . |
| 2 | However , during this period a rate of growth was achieved that was good by the standards of the mid-1970s , full employment was maintained , and inflation , while ever present , was never so high as to cause alarm . |
| 3 | To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience . |
| 4 | Both he and my own doctor warned me to stop all running for the sake of my health ; their manner was so grave as to imply danger to my life . |
| 5 | I shook his hand to calm him as much as to show respect . |
| 6 | ‘ When we arrived here , ’ said Fenella , and spared a thought for the absurdity of these words , because the manner of their arriving had been something so remarkable as to defy explanation or description . |
| 7 | All that I can say is that the actions of Councillor Bookbinder are so incredible as to defy belief . |
| 8 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 9 | A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers — the variety is so large as to make description impossible . |
| 10 | The use of prose for mockery in Much Ado about Nothing is so widespread as to make illustration superfluous . |
| 11 | The signal can only be a small molecule as the pores are so fine as to prevent passage of larger substances . |
| 12 | Only the feeling of mute resistance , the chill sense of acquiescence so grudging as to give pain . |
| 13 | Be that as it may , the discrepancy between the editorial objectives of Monde and its editorial practice was so great as to cause embarrassment in official communist circles , and to provoke open hostility from Young Turks such as Breton , Aragon and Nizan himself . |
| 14 | ONE CONSORTIUM , Five TV , hopes that the imagined problems will be so great as to discourage competition and that all potential investors ( who include The Daily Telegraph ) will accrete to its application and that the ITC will be left with a choice of one . |
| 15 | If the explanation for the violent outburst lies in something which might understandably lead a person to be so angry as to lose self-control , then this supplies an added reason for mitigating the offence and the sentence . |
| 16 | " Though many ( candidates ) may have ample material they mar their chances by solecism , malapropisms , dreadful spelling and grammatical errors sometimes so gross as to obscure meaning " . |
| 17 | It is comparatively rare for it to be so long or so short as to cause difficulty in sexual intercourse — about 2½ in. is long enough — while satisfactory coitus does not demand complete intromission of a penis which is rather long . |
| 18 | The building regulations require that walls to buildings should be so constructed as to prevent fire reaching the boundary and , as a consequence , possibly endangering adjoining property . |
| 19 | Environmental uncertainties for a corporation are so numerous as to defy classification , but none the less , there are five important sources of problems which potentially interfere with a corporation 's ability to achieve its goal(s) easily without bending , evading , or breaking legal regulations . |
| 20 | There may be uncertainties in interpreting an ultrasound picture ; the prognosis of the abnormality detected is not always known ; and in some groups of defects , such as oesophageal atresia or obstructive defects of urinary system , it is not always clear whether the defect is so severe as to justify abortion or whether surgery might be successful . |
| 21 | As Czeizel and colleagues point out , ‘ it is not always clear whether the defect is so severe as to justify abortion or whether surgery might be successful . ’ |
| 22 | Indeed , the cross-equation restrictions may become so complicated as to make computation of the restricted model difficult or impossible in practice . |
| 23 | Surely no one would be so wicked as to set fire to the place ? ’ |
| 24 | Hard hitting criticism and savage satire can generally be successfully defended as honest comment , so long as the exaggerations are not so extreme as to indicate malice . |
| 25 | This would leave a difficult boundary for patients with learning difficulties so profound as to require treatment in a hospital or specialist residential home , the former being free and the latter funded by social services and means tested . |
| 26 | ‘ Shallot , be so courteous as to tell Master Ruthven we await him here . ’ |
| 27 | Would a person like Crevecoeur be so desperate as to seek sanctuary in such a place ? |
| 28 | But selectivity so planned as to celebrate randomness . |
| 29 | It should not be supposed from such criteria for choosing Christianity or retaining paganism that pagans were so simple-minded as to think prosperity and material adversity automatic grounds for conversion or retention of paganism as the case might be . |
| 30 | The author 's preface refers to ‘ the gentleman , who was so kind as to take care of the Publication of it , only to excuse me from appearing ’ . |