Example sentences of "[conj] so [adj] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Her few originalities are so naive as to be laughable ( such as her picture of the persons of the Trinity sitting on different-coloured cushions ) or so deranged as to be pitiable . |
| 2 | When the original ingredients of a dish become obsolete or so debased as to be unrecognizable radical change is preferable to make-believe replacements . |
| 3 | These were trades liable to seasonal and cyclical fluctuations , but where unemployment was neither so frequent as to be uninsurable , nor so low as to be unnecessary . |
| 4 | In his Golden Bough Sir James Frazer had difficulty in making up his mind between the two rival theories of the fire-cults and fire-festivals which are found intimately connected with the agricultural year throughout those parts of the world where the sun is neither so bright nor so constant as in the cloudless skies of Egypt . |
| 5 | In theory it is possible to obtain insurance against warranty liability ( e.g. Directors and officers ) but in practice the insurers are normally so demanding in the kind of confirmations they require and so restrictive as to what they will insure ( eg not taxation ) that this is rarely practicable or worthwhile . |
| 6 | A short way further on is the handsome village of Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry , most fetchingly set amidst the hills and so long-drawn-out as to be really two villages , with the river in between them . |
| 7 | When the southernmost stars also were divided up , the whole situation became somewhat chaotic ; various astronomers invented their own constellations , some of which were so small and so obscure as to be unworthy of separate identity . |
| 8 | The run-off from the pig factories is so high in nutrients and so voluminous that in warm summers the entire Adriatic stinks of rotting algae and dead fish . |
| 9 | The differences are therefore in the expected direction but so slight as to be unremarkable . |
| 10 | Here it was again , but so strong as to be an insult to the word stench . |
| 11 | Accordingly two sets of legislation were introduced in the 1960s : the Race Relations Act , which maintained the liberal facade of the state and which , though so weak as to be almost useless in practice , had as a basis the assumption that black people were a part of the community and needed to be protected from racial prejudice : in contrast , and much more effective , were the Immigration Acts , which themselves discriminated against black workers . |