Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy . |
| 2 | Patrick made so bold as to ask : ‘ Do you know if they 're coming from Ashford or Headquarters ? ’ |
| 3 | A few of the burlier men put their shoulders to the door , but it was built of ancient oak , heavily reinforced with iron and their combined weights failed so much as to cause the door to tremble on its massive hinges . |
| 4 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 5 | Percy took her hand , saying , ‘ Definitely my art is diffused , but I have never stooped so low as to even touch a guitar . ’ |
| 6 | But pace bowlers Wasim Akram and Waqar Younis said in a statement : ‘ We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments . |
| 7 | We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments in the papers . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Other sea monsters washed ashore have proved objects of interest and attraction to visitors at first , but soon becoming so offensive as to render the town of Looe barely inhabitable . |
| 10 | But I considered myself to be unattractive , and in becoming so thin as to render myself totally undesirable sexually , I was saying , ‘ I may be unattractive , but this is because I choose to be this way . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I always heard tell of you that you were a wolf , but never that you were come so low as to prey on dead men . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Branches are becoming less uniform as banks tailor outlets to meet specific needs . |
| 14 | Like many Chicago blues songs of the 1940s and 1950s , it draws heavily on the traditions of rural Mississippi blues — evident , for instance , in the vocal ( falling shapes , largely pentatonic , lots of repetition of phrases and short motifs , not much ‘ tune ’ , instead close to speech , shouted as much as sung ) , and second , the use , throughout , of only one chord — a kind of drone . |
| 15 | L will shift to the right in diagram ( a ) , and thus r will not fall as much as illustrated . |
| 16 | Surely polymeric surfactants , which are becoming increasingly important as dispersing agents , are worth more than the three pages devoted to them here . |
| 17 | Their tastes are also becoming increasingly sophisticated as shown by booming sales in luxurious fine fragrances , according to a survey by Mintel . |
| 18 | Dysart Engineering was one of the success stories of West Midlands industry after the Depression and , as Gordon Dysart 's only son , young Alan was a dozen rungs above the likes of you and me on the ladder of life before he 'd so much as lost his milk teeth . |
| 19 | As the foregoing arguments have suggested , control is not imposed so much as negotiated or bargained between parties who both have considerable power resources ( cf. Aharoni 1981a : 1342 ) . |
| 20 | That way they will not only taste wonderful , they will also make you feel as cosy as wearing a cashmere sweater , or sitting with your toes in the Aga and a purring cat on your lap . |
| 21 | But an intimate dinner at the château was another matter altogether — because this would be the first time she 'd as much as set eyes on him since he 'd walked away from her outside this very room on that awful night . |
| 22 | They 'd as good as killed him when they 'd taken him out of the field . |
| 23 | For a while , there , he 'd as good as haunted the place in the late afternoons … but then the van had broken down and getting into town had n't been so easy , and besides the restaurant had become so damned busy that he 'd become just another face in an ever-changing crowd . |
| 24 | He 'd as good as admitted he 'd gone off her sexually by saying he preferred just resting in her , motionless . |
| 25 | The match seemed as good as settled by the first evening . |
| 26 | The exhibitors ' stands , crammed under the shadow of an overhanging gallery , seemed as blasphemous as betting shops in a tabernacle . |
| 27 | Punctually at eight o'clock Lizzie the housemaid , apron fresh and cap on head , carried the tray , large enough to hold two cups , a charming pattern of violets scattered over them , matched by a teapot , also wreathed in violets , and a plate of bread and butter , slices cut as thin as veils , up three flights of stairs . |
| 28 | ‘ Do n't you dare so much as lay a finger on me . ’ |
| 29 | Indeed , the cross-equation restrictions may become so complicated as to make computation of the restricted model difficult or impossible in practice . |
| 30 | Sometimes disagreement , in spite of attempts to conceal it , will become so public as to prejudice a party 's hopes of electoral success . |