Example sentences of "[pers pn] be so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would I be so foolish as to blaspheme ? |
| 2 | Let us discuss what his ransom should be , since you are so generous as to entertain the possibility , and I will get for you full assurance that he shall be restrained from ever infringing your territory or your person again . |
| 3 | ‘ It 'll also be the judge 's — if you 're so foolish as to go ahead and fight me . ’ |
| 4 | How could she be so stupid as to think he believed in the legend of the Kershaw Worm ? |
| 5 | " Would you be so good as to ask Mr Lee to step out here please . |
| 6 | Would you be so kind as to repeat them again ? ’ |
| 7 | Adam , would you be so kind as to tell Winterton to admit Mr Newman ? |
| 8 | Mrs , would you be so kind as to ? |
| 9 | ‘ Would you be so kind as to excuse me for a moment ? |
| 10 | NOW WOULD YOU BE SO KIND AS TO LET GO ? |
| 11 | ‘ Would you be so kind as to fetch … what ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Oh yes , and would you be so kind as to fetch me The Economist from the table over there ? ’ |
| 13 | Robert would you be so kind as to shut the door for me ? |
| 14 | When any seeds arrive from him I will take the first opportunity of sending you a share and in return shall trouble you for some Northern and Welsh plants which I hope we shall make proper conveniency to receive into our Garden in a short time ; for several of those which you were so good as to furnish me with a few years since are lost for want of proper soil and situation , the natural earth of our Garden being too light and dry and the bottom too warm . |
| 15 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 16 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 17 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 18 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 19 | How can we be so arrogant as to say ‘ do as I do ? ’ |
| 20 | The buses to Goldington Hall were very good indeed for which we were so thankful as our clothing was getting thin . |
| 21 | If there are signs of an economic upturn ‘ they are so faint as to be virtually invisible ’ , Sir Denys Henderson , chairman of ICI , said recently . |
| 22 | In addition , the spurs between the meanders preserve the general height of the plateau surface away from the river , except where they are so narrow as to be subject to general lowering by the formation of the slopes on either side . |
| 23 | They are so useful as low-fat sources of protein ( and other nutrients too ) that they are an important part of any food regime , including diets to reduce weight . |
| 24 | It could be argued that when publication of address lists reaches this scale they are so unselective as to be innocuous ; the Swedish Data Inspection Board took the opposite view when it objected to the Readers Digest organisation compiling its own register of all adult Swedes ( roughly 9 million ) . |
| 25 | These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective . |
| 26 | As far as the rift with the Musicians Union is concerned if they are so shortsighted as to condemn and ban everything that has the tag ‘ South African ’ , without even trying to understand , I do n't see much point in having anything to do with them . |
| 27 | Well the first want to say hi two to look at the policy we have with us to make sure they 're so good as originally intended . |
| 28 | ‘ Beaks ’ , ‘ Kill ’ and ‘ Squeekers ’ are heavy on chirpy keyboard inflections , Beach Boys harmonies and nifty guitar breaks ; but they 're so bland as to be downright irritating . |
| 29 | they 're so pale as well . |
| 30 | Price rises were ineffective unless they were so swingeing as to be ruinous . |