Example sentences of "[be] so great as [verb] " in BNC.

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1 In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws .
2 The scale of the problem may not be so great as to cause widespread concern for the rural child , however .
3 ONE CONSORTIUM , Five TV , hopes that the imagined problems will be so great as to discourage competition and that all potential investors ( who include The Daily Telegraph ) will accrete to its application and that the ITC will be left with a choice of one .
4 In unfavourable circumstances erosion may be so great as to tear a gap through the dunes , such a feature being described as a blow out .
5 Or — another possibility — the curvature might be so great as to make the Universe close back on itself .
6 But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind .
7 Be that as it may , the discrepancy between the editorial objectives of Monde and its editorial practice was so great as to cause embarrassment in official communist circles , and to provoke open hostility from Young Turks such as Breton , Aragon and Nizan himself .
8 Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority .
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