Example sentences of "[adj] as [to-vb] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose . |
| 3 | Having been primed by Draper back in the hotel room on who played or produced what , Branson would present himself with a box of tapes and play just one track by each artist ; enough to whet the appetite , but not so much as to test his customer 's patience — or indeed Branson 's own musical knowledge . |
| 4 | The torch she hardly used at all ; only once or twice , shading it within her palm , she let it flash upon the paler gravel of the path , to align her passage alongside the faintly glowing water , and then snapped it out again quickly , to avoid reliance upon its light as much as to conceal her presence here . |
| 5 | The cat gave a whimper , as much as to tell its mistress what a terrible time it had had . |
| 6 | ‘ His memory seemed to me to be so defective and selective as to make his evidence worthless . ’ |
| 7 | If you have information to sell , be so good as to state your price , that I may be left in privacy . |
| 8 | Occasionally , and this was such an occasion , Elisabeth Danziger experienced a feeling of disorientation so powerful as to render her environment totally unfamiliar . |
| 9 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 10 | If you should be so kind as to print my name and telephone number in Pilot I would be more than happy to hear from anyone interested in the project and to act as an initial clearing-house for information . |
| 11 | You erm stay with T one , three , four please just so that we er understand the point you 're making and I would ask you if you 'd be so kind as to keep your voice well up . |
| 12 | I must admit I acted with the thought that I could interest you , that some attention would not be unwelcome — I hope I am not so insensitive as to force my company on anyone without some indication on their part — and there was interest , was n't there ? |
| 13 | No-one as protected as that would ever be so abandoned as to defy her guardian . |