Example sentences of "[adj] as [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she could n't really have been so foolish as to fall in love with Guido Falcone ? |
| 2 | How can the creature be so clever as to weave with beak and feet alone a tapestry no human fingers , however deft , could ever hope to imitate ? |
| 3 | ‘ I notice , ’ he said in good English , ‘ that you have been so bold as to ask for food at this late hour . |
| 4 | How could he have been so shortsighted , so absolutely thick as to worry about commitment when the girl he was worried about committing to was Alexandra ? |
| 5 | One of my colonies of mushroom polyps , reddish brown specimens which I think are a Ricordea species , killed a bushy sea whip ( Plexaurelia ) which happened to be so close as to come into contact , when it deflated . |
| 6 | 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 . |