Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( b ) On the other hand the courts will not carry a literal construction of the articles so far as to defeat their obvious purpose . |
| 2 | She could describe weather conditions so realistically as to make her audience shiver or sweat , and children would find themselves taking off and putting on a garment in mid-tale . |
| 3 | This last choice is desirable but it only delays things so far as getting home is concerned , since the forest road stops on the frontier some three miles away , and there you can but turn round . |
| 4 | It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing . |
| 5 | Again this is a key finding , for little can be done about speeds , safety and environmental traffic management issues so long as housing areas have through traffic inflicted upon them . |