Example sentences of "[be] so small as " in BNC.
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| 1 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 2 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 3 | Nevertheless , a new home should n't be so small as to rule out the possibilities of shared living again one day . |
| 4 | The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education . |
| 5 | As a result it was accepted by the 1630s that English colonies could take most decisions for themselves , and this meant they developed the institutions which , over the course of time , grew in a way that enabled them to become self-governing and then independent by stages which could be so small as sometimes to be imperceptible . |
| 6 | A survival of Second Empire technology could be so small as to be incapable of spreading its influence , or the science could have survived but not the necessary manufacturing techniques for its propagation . |
| 7 | The nett magnetic effect from contra-rotating magnetic fields can be so small as to get buried in noise . |
| 8 | There is a very slight rise in death-rate in those who are mildly overweight , grade 1 , and also in those who are underweight , grade-1. but this low rise is so small as to be insignificant . |