Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] as [to-vb] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Thus he is able to treat the woman as infinitely desirous of sex , as wanting nothing so much as to satisfy his desires . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | If you have information to sell , be so good as to state your price , that I may be left in privacy . |
| 8 | Perhaps you will be so good as to tell your guards to accompany me to the foot of the hill ? " |
| 9 | ‘ However the discussion happily turned very soon on to the question of procedure , ’ Amery recorded , ‘ and the desirability , in which we all concurred , of the statement being so framed as to avoid our being pushed into a general election this autumn . ’ |
| 10 | Occasionally , and this was such an occasion , Elisabeth Danziger experienced a feeling of disorientation so powerful as to render her environment totally unfamiliar . |
| 11 | your employer has broken your contract ; and 2. that action was so fundamental as to justify your ending the contract ( or that it was ‘ the last straw ’ ) ; and that |
| 12 | A woman whose energy and appetite for merriment were so enormous and whose gift for friendship was so limitless as to make her unique in high London society . |
| 13 | He knew that boys of twelve did not have French tests so important as to prevent their seeing their fathers . |
| 14 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 15 | If you should be so kind as to print my name and telephone number in Pilot I would be more than happy to hear from anyone interested in the project and to act as an initial clearing-house for information . |
| 16 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 17 | You erm stay with T one , three , four please just so that we er understand the point you 're making and I would ask you if you 'd be so kind as to keep your voice well up . |
| 18 | I must admit I acted with the thought that I could interest you , that some attention would not be unwelcome — I hope I am not so insensitive as to force my company on anyone without some indication on their part — and there was interest , was n't there ? |
| 19 | No-one as protected as that would ever be so abandoned as to defy her guardian . |
| 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 | The cat gave a whimper , as much as to tell its mistress what a terrible time it had had . |
| 22 | It is not without considerable irony that he should choose an example which is so uniquely interventionist as to render his previous assertion almost meaningless . |