Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [subord] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Oh , no , ’ Luce whispered , unwilling to believe that anyone could stoop so low as to steal a ring from a dead woman 's finger . |
| 2 | Bathrooms and modern amenities were added to them all but great care was taken to ensure the original character of the buildings was retained , and in fact the original ambience has been left so intact as to produce a veritable living museum of simple , rustic life as it used to be . |
| 3 | Firstly , we have ‘ a state of affairs that is so acute as to constitute a danger ’ — and , we would add , a moral challenge of a scale which makes it one of the most pressing social issues of the day . |
| 4 | It was widely held that the Koreans would not be ready for independence when the war ended : memories of the closing phase of the Yi dynasty did not inspire confidence in Korean ability for effective government and the era of Japanese dominance had been so repressive as to necessitate a period of readjustment . |
| 5 | Even if we make the comparison with the earlier part of the twentieth century when people were beginning to live longer , the economic conditions of family life were so different as to make a decision to take an old person into one 's home , if they could not maintain themselves , a very different decision from its equivalent today . |
| 6 | Sometimes disagreement , in spite of attempts to conceal it , will become so public as to prejudice a party 's hopes of electoral success . |
| 7 | Its basis is the naturally occurring substance uranium , an element which under certain circumstances can be made to become so unstable as to produce an explosive force . |
| 8 | These are two squares , of equivalent dimensions , so interlaced as to produce an eight-pointed star or an eight pointed rosette . |
| 9 | I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter 's lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution , Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban ( This Week , 3 March , p 567 ) . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | But , as we have seen , there is no evidence that unfair credit refusal is so widespread as to justify an elaborate system for redress ( and statutory bodies already exist which have the duty to hunt down cases of real discrimination on grounds of sex or race ) . |
| 12 | In contrast , amounts of methylated oligonucleotide in lane 3 are so large as to cause an extended area of blurred , saturated blackening of the film . |
| 13 | The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail . |
| 14 | I am not so naive as to expect a blinding flash of understanding , but bit by bit I think I am beginning to see patterns of behaviour , and even — in some cases — to recognise individuals . |
| 15 | To the outsider it appears that when change of any kind is required , the NHS is so structured as to resemble a " mobile " : designed to move with any breath of air , but which in fact never changes its position and gives no clear indication of direction . |
| 16 | ‘ Now if the Major would be so good as to arrange a workroom , I can have the suit finished in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 17 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 18 | It 's at this stage that one or other of the partners may start to get an eye so roving as to become a nose and take up with the first cloth-eared bimbo who gazes up or down and says , ‘ I ca n't believe you 're over forty — that 's sooo sexy . ’ |
| 19 | The variety of management tasks is often so great as to warrant a task analysis with separate skills analyses of particular tasks or groups of tasks . |
| 20 | In unfavourable circumstances erosion may be so great as to tear a gap through the dunes , such a feature being described as a blow out . |
| 21 | When reality actually arrives ( and it always does ) the contrast between it and the exaggerated positive focus is sometimes so great as to produce a distorted negative focus . |
| 22 | US linguists Sapir and Whorf who investigated the Hopi Indian language in the 1930s believed it to be so distinctive as to represent an entirely different thought process . |
| 23 | At times , these images may be so powerful as to demand an immediate response . |
| 24 | My conclusion of the strength of her faith is that her convictions are in fact not so deep-seated or so fundamental as to constitute an immutable decision by her as to her way of life — or her way of death . |
| 25 | County council officials have already gone on record as saying the humps are not so severe as to pose a major problem for the buses . |
| 26 | And yet in these , he made himself so ridiculous as to become an entertainment . |
| 27 | ‘ Cheryl , I wonder if you would be so kind as to cast a professional eye over the experimental laboratories for me . ’ |
| 28 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 29 | The notion of art upon which the Report draws is at once so general as to be almost unspecifiable , and so pragmatic as to offer a highly potent means of making practical and discursive links between English and education : " The writing of English is essentially an art , and the effect of English literature in education is the effect of an art upon the development of human character " . |
| 30 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |