Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | We are amazed that a fellow professional has stooped so low as to make such unfounded comments in the papers . |
| 3 | Hooliganism involving Dutch supporters has become so frequent as to suggest that another blanket ban of a nation 's clubs might be necessary . |
| 4 | Family planning Salvadorean fashion has become so notorious as to be classified as a human rights issue . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If what she was doing were n't so important she would never have put so much as a foot inside them . |
| 7 | However , Dr Tim Synott of the Oxford Forestry Institute suggested that plantations might be suitable on some formerly-forested lands that had become so degraded as to have very little biological value . |
| 8 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |
| 9 | In duels of old , it had n't always been the sword going into the lungs that had killed so much as the drawing of it out . |
| 10 | The wide formal boulevards of Algiers , the plane-trees with their trunks painted white , the tall graceful white-painted houses with their balconies and shutters , the shade of the square reserved for Europeans : all these reminded him of the France he had loved so much as a child ; the towns of the South — Arles or Nîmes or Avignon , some of the small towns of the Loire . |
| 11 | More importantly , the financial and time pressures on heads of houses have become so acute as to leave little appetite among senior publishing people for taking on additional responsibilities . |
| 12 | ‘ People will not remember me for the amount of money I have accumulated so much as the titles I have won . |