Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] as make " in BNC.
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| 1 | It can not be the cheap medals and worthless trophies they hope to accumulate and the chances of making big money are so tiny as to make it untenable as a career . |
| 2 | In fact , benefits are so low as to make it difficult for a woman and her children to live on them , which puts pressure on her to find another male supporter . |
| 3 | The Standards and Guidance Committee is satisfied that the professions listed below are so regulated as to make it appropriate for solicitors to enter into MNPs with members of those professions , and for members of those professions to be officers of recognised bodies , in accordance with Schedule 14 paragraph 2(2) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 4 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 5 | On 17 July 1559 , the answer was a scolding letter from her husband the king of France to lord James , marvelling that he , who ‘ has the honour to be so near the Queen 's Grace , my wife … should be so forgetful as to make yourself the head … of the tumults and seditions ’ ; only six days later did the queen get round to sending a similarly plaintive message herself . |
| 6 | Now , it may or not me noticeable if it 's a minor alteration in the surface geometry then it may be so slight as to make no difference in the way it performs so if , for example , it 's an enzyme it may not affect it at all . |
| 7 | Or — another possibility — the curvature might be so great as to make the Universe close back on itself . |
| 8 | The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education . |
| 9 | Assuming the tribunal would not be so careless as to make such an oversight , it is submitted that if it did consider that the words ’ conduct of the employee ‘ in Sec 24 of the Industrial Relations Act , 1971 ( now Schedule 1 Para 6 ( 2 ) of the 1974 Trade Union and Labour Relations Act ) were impliedly qualified by something like ‘ in the course of his employment ’ , it was quite wrong . |
| 10 | Even if we make the comparison with the earlier part of the twentieth century when people were beginning to live longer , the economic conditions of family life were so different as to make a decision to take an old person into one 's home , if they could not maintain themselves , a very different decision from its equivalent today . |
| 11 | Yesterday 's initial tour selection is so strong as to make no difference . |
| 12 | Particularly in the early period , moreover , the number of usages one comes across is so low as to make definition a hazardous business . |
| 13 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 14 | I 've managed to scan it in , but the resolution is so low as to make it unread- able . |
| 15 | As part of the registration process the Law Society must satisfy itself that the legal profession of which the applicant is a member is one which is so regulated as to make it appropriate : — |
| 16 | A complete range of enquiry services is available to personal callers — the variety is so large as to make description impossible . |
| 17 | The use of prose for mockery in Much Ado about Nothing is so widespread as to make illustration superfluous . |
| 18 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 19 | The nationality requirement , along with the domicile and residence requirements , was so restrictive as to make ineligible for consideration as ‘ qualified companies ’ many publicly quoted companies or banks on the International Stock Exchange in London . |
| 20 | A woman whose energy and appetite for merriment were so enormous and whose gift for friendship was so limitless as to make her unique in high London society . |
| 21 | Enter Ulrich Zwingli ( 1484–1531 ) , one of the most zealously dedicated of all the religious reformers , a man whose opposition to traditional beliefs and practices was so extreme as to make Luther ( with whom he quarrelled ) look mild . |