Example sentences of "[adj] [subord] [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Surely she could n't really have been so foolish as to fall in love with Guido Falcone ? |
| 2 | How can the creature be so clever as to weave with beak and feet alone a tapestry no human fingers , however deft , could ever hope to imitate ? |
| 3 | Nineteen days after the Sunday when he was deemed to have no alternative than to resign in ignominy his leadership was more secure than at any time since the 1929 election . |
| 4 | ‘ I notice , ’ he said in good English , ‘ that you have been so bold as to ask for food at this late hour . |
| 5 | How could he have been so shortsighted , so absolutely thick as to worry about commitment when the girl he was worried about committing to was Alexandra ? |
| 6 | Back at the hotel , after finally conceding that there was no way out of her financial dilemma other than to go to work for G.W. Fashions , Lisa had demanded , as Vass had sat there drinking coffee , oblivious of the callous blow he had inflicted , ‘ So , how long is this arrangement supposed to last ? |
| 7 | And , notwithstanding the very high authority of Lord Coke , I think it is not the fact that to accept prompt payment of a part only of a liquidated demand can never be more beneficial than to insist on payment of the whole . |
| 8 | One of my colonies of mushroom polyps , reddish brown specimens which I think are a Ricordea species , killed a bushy sea whip ( Plexaurelia ) which happened to be so close as to come into contact , when it deflated . |
| 9 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |