Example sentences of "[adv] foolish as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A restrained virility that boded ill for anyone so incredibly foolish as to even think of challenging his authority . |
| 2 | Not so foolish as to put your head in a noose . |
| 3 | ‘ It 'll also be the judge 's — if you 're so foolish as to go ahead and fight me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water . |
| 5 | Surely she could n't really have been so foolish as to fall in love with Guido Falcone ? |
| 6 | Realising that the Australians were not so foolish as to engage in pitched battles , whatever their masters decreed , the Japanese sent a picked force of guerrilla fighters to take up the chase where the major columns left off . |
| 7 | He blamed the fall of the city on the impiety and general degeneracy of the people , who had been so foolish as to ally themselves with Christians in the first place . |
| 8 | Surely Lorton would n't be so foolish as to kill Newley ? |
| 9 | The Lutheran scholar Robert Jenson chastises Christian feminists for being so foolish as to think that the term ‘ Father ’ is being used univocally ( having the same connotations ) when used of human fathers and of God ; as though to imply that there is sexuality in God . |
| 10 | How could he have been so foolish as to stretch out away from the shade of the trees ? |
| 11 | To come to faith on the basis of experience alone is unwise , though not so foolish as to reject faith altogether because of lack of experience . |
| 12 | How could she have been so foolish as to imagine he had issued the invitation on a personal level ? |
| 13 | To those who see China in primarily economic terms , the ‘ golden goose ’ argument comes most easily : that its government would never be so foolish as to constrict or repress Hong Kong , the tiny territory which has proved such a powerful catalyst for the growth of its hinterland . |
| 14 | To eat chalk is as foolish as to try to write on a blackboard with cheese ! |