Example sentences of "[pron] is so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unless the seller commits a breach of condition or commits a breach of warranty which is so serious as to deprive the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract , the buyer has no right to reject the goods or recover the price ( see paragraph 7–04 above ) . |
| 2 | As part of the registration process the Law Society must satisfy itself that the legal profession of which the applicant is a member is one which is so regulated as to make it appropriate : — |
| 3 | Sometimes an objection is raised which is so general as to be difficult to counter . |
| 4 | As Gombrich points out : ‘ the experience of the underlying constancies in a person 's face which is so strong as to survive all the transformations of mood and age and even to leap across generations , conflicts with the strange fact that such recognition can be inhibited with comparative ease by what may be called the mask ’ . |
| 5 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 6 | A man who is so abnormal as to weep at the death of his wife is said to be behaving illogically . |
| 7 | In front of the entrance there is a pillar of rock forty feet high , called the Soldier Rock , and the entrance itself is so narrow as only to admit a small boat , and then only in fine weather . |
| 8 | I have suggested that there is an important connection between the linguistic and the metalinguistic , since the important thing about sex difference is not what it is so much as what it is made to mean . |
| 9 | It is so predictable as to be almost inevitable . |
| 10 | It is so presented as to invite us to see no difference between on the one hand management appointed by , acting for , and accountable to owners , and on the other union representatives appointed by , acting for , and accountable to employees . |
| 11 | It is so weak as not really to provide a genuine sense of ‘ conclusive ’ , but this does n't really matter . |
| 12 | ‘ Depreciation rate ’ is a term sometimes used to describe the rate of physical decline of existing stock to a point where it is so decrepit as to be no longer usable . |
| 13 | The problem is , they will not own up to their selectivity ( perhaps because in most cases , it is so biased as to be indefensible ) . |
| 14 | Although common in gardens and freely available from nurseries and garden centres it is so classy-looking as to be favoured by plantsmen with the most esoteric tastes . |
| 15 | To say that it is peaceful is an understatement ; it is so quiet as to be almost unsettling for anyone used to the never-ending noise of the city . |
| 16 | The technique of squeezing the last mark out of the examination game ( for it is so artificial as to be a game ) needs as much practice as mastering the breast stroke or converting a try . |
| 17 | Give yourself time to settle down with a new program before you draw the conclusion that it is so buggy as to be unusable . |
| 18 | Their whole game depends on getting the man on the ground out of the way , if necessary with the boot , if he is so unfortunate as to be between them and the ball . |
| 19 | Personal virtue , he went on , was indispensable , for " nothing is so dangerous as intelligence when it is guided by a corrupt heart " . |
| 20 | Nothing is so bad as having to imagine . ’ |
| 21 | The use of prose for mockery in Much Ado about Nothing is so widespread as to make illustration superfluous . |