Example sentences of "[adj] as [to-vb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This apparent infall is so fast as to smother the expanding white hole . |
| 2 | An " optimum " rate of population growth could be considered one which while it increases the labour supply , is not so fast as to outgrow the supportive powers of the economy and prevent income per head from rising . |
| 3 | The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions . |
| 4 | Quite a lot of guesswork and estimation has to go into this , but the margins of error are not so great as to nullify the whole enterprise . |
| 5 | Bridges across the River Thames were gradually being constructed , but the one nearest to the estuary had to be so constructed as to permit the tall ships entering the London Docks , to pass under , so the Tower Bridge was designed and opened in June of 1894 . |
| 6 | However , he is not so undiplomatic as to resist the horrendous hospitality of overindulgent underdeveloped countries . |
| 7 | Burial and fossilization changes are often so extensive as to obscure the primary modifications which must be identified in order to understand the mechanisms of accumulation of the bones . |
| 8 | One collective line of approach adopted by the GCC was to put forward a draft resolution to the UN Security Council , so worded as to highlight the Iranian role in endangering shipping , while remaining silent on that of Iraq . |