Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as to have " in BNC.
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| 1 | it will be henceforth assumed that the typical unit of lexicology is the word ( this statement is so obvious as to have an air of tautology ) . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They never had been so unfortunate as to have intruders , and were unlikely to start now . |
| 4 | Was it however so paradoxical as to have dealt a death blow to the theory ? |
| 5 | It 's nice to know that the Man Utd fans still feel so inadequate as to have to post things to the Leeds newsgroup . |
| 6 | Almost certainly it would have been the executors , after consultation with the family , as not even a cabinet-maker used to the undertaking trade would have been so bold as to have proceeded with such an elaborate item without having first enquired of the executors . |
| 7 | So far I have discussed two attempts to distinguish the different types of political system in terms of an evolutionary scheme ; one of them ( that of Spencer ) being so abstract as to have little value in establishing a precise historical sequence , while the other ( that of Marx ) possesses less of an evolutionary character than may at first sight appear and leaves unsolved many problems in the construction of an adequate typology of precapitalist and capitalist societies . |
| 8 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 9 | However , Dr Tim Synott of the Oxford Forestry Institute suggested that plantations might be suitable on some formerly-forested lands that had become so degraded as to have very little biological value . |
| 10 | Indeed , some people have suggested that it was so difficult as to have been impossible , but this is to underestimate the intelligence and ingenuity of our forebears . |
| 11 | Sitting by her bedroom window later that night , Laura lectured herself for having been so naïve as to have been upset by the remarks he had originally made on the dance-floor . |
| 12 | Very few are so unmusical as to have no music at all within them , and all of us are surrounded by it for much of the time . |
| 13 | Other defects were so trivial as to have no effect . |
| 14 | Where feasible , activity in one part of the system should be so organized as to have an effect in other parts ( for instance , the results of stock revision at one service point can be used in all others ) . |
| 15 | The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions . |
| 16 | ‘ It is very wrong to teach a five or six-year-old that to have two mummies is quite as right as to have a mummy and daddy , ’ he says . |