Example sentences of "[noun] so [adj] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , the concept was a formula for expressing the fact that , in our system , ‘ the principles of private law have … been by the action of the Courts and Parliament so extended as to determine the position of the Crown and of its servants ’ . |
| 2 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 3 | His shows are serious and grown-up , by his lights , and they certainly have storylines so odd as to make The Ring look like a sit-com . |
| 4 | I know of no religion so fundamentalist as to dispute the facts up to this point . |
| 5 | Surely such a sensible little bird , a bantam so civilized as to sit gently and happily on the head of a human child , should have known that her removal from an ill-chosen resting place , in the wilds of hazel and rhododendron , was for her own good and safety ? |
| 6 | A passion so intense , a caring so complete as to make all other feeling insignificant . |
| 7 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 8 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | Even those committees so bold as to demand to see papers and witnesses are unlikely to receive the cooperation they require . |
| 10 | Only the feeling of mute resistance , the chill sense of acquiescence so grudging as to give pain . |
| 11 | Joyce 's use of stream of consciousness was often thought at the time to be an achievement so outstanding as to deter imitation : Ezra Pound , for example , suggested , ‘ Ulysses is , presumably … unrepeatable … you can not duplicate it ’ ( Pound 1922 : 625 ) . |
| 12 | A multiplicity of small early termini was replaced in 1914 by Tokyo Central , a station so vast as to vie with Howrah in Calcutta , though other mainline termini , Ueno and Shinjuku , survived . |
| 13 | But selectivity so planned as to celebrate randomness . |
| 14 | This would leave a difficult boundary for patients with learning difficulties so profound as to require treatment in a hospital or specialist residential home , the former being free and the latter funded by social services and means tested . |
| 15 | Is the prevalence of flank pain or macroscopic haematuria in patients with simple renal cysts so high as to justify invasive procedures ( such as removal by surgery or the application of alcohol ) ? |
| 16 | He knew that boys of twelve did not have French tests so important as to prevent their seeing their fathers . |
| 17 | This must be the product of a great conspiracy , on a scale so immense and of an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man . ’ |
| 18 | Deep deep in a limestone cave where the stalagmites grow less than an inch a century , but still tower so high as to humble the cathedrals of the surface , the shaking fear of the ground woke a dreaming dragon . |
| 19 | Industrialism requires a very delicate adjustment of demographic growth : not too fast ; because that will lower wages and thus both consumer demand and the incentive to labour saving investment ; not too slow , for that will raise wages so high as to entrench on profits and the capacity for investment . |
| 20 | Occasionally , and this was such an occasion , Elisabeth Danziger experienced a feeling of disorientation so powerful as to render her environment totally unfamiliar . |
| 21 | In Holy Trinity Church Nicholson abounded in anecdotes , vulgarity , rudeness , emotional appeals , a dogmatism so dogmatic as to frighten . |
| 22 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 23 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 24 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 25 | The potential pitfall of this approach is that the Taligent add-ons could make the conventional offerings so attractive as to damage the acceptance of the native product itself . |
| 26 | As for O'Leary , it is 3½ years since he had the car accident which left him with a back injury so severe as to necessitate three operations . |