Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Liza Tremayne should take up with a corporal was so unlikely as to be ludicrous . |
| 2 | Be that as it may , the discrepancy between the editorial objectives of Monde and its editorial practice was so great as to cause embarrassment in official communist circles , and to provoke open hostility from Young Turks such as Breton , Aragon and Nizan himself . |
| 3 | your employer has broken your contract ; and 2. that action was so fundamental as to justify your ending the contract ( or that it was ‘ the last straw ’ ) ; and that |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This system was usually applied where the grade of ore was so poor as to preclude it being worked by the tribute system . |
| 6 | Some 350 articles of equipment were carried in the 12 heavy tools vans which ran in the trains containing the steam cranes , and some of this equipment was so heavy as to need the use of demountable jib gallows with a frame at each double door to get it in and out of the van . |
| 7 | What it did was to produce complex mathematical calculations to show that the risk of their happening was so remote as to be discountable . |
| 8 | Perhaps the immediate and justified reaction was that the proposals in the Green Paper were so sketchy as to pose an unenviable choice between ‘ a crude centralist and an equally crude local authority solution ’ . |
| 9 | Both he and my own doctor warned me to stop all running for the sake of my health ; their manner was so grave as to imply danger to my life . |
| 10 | This suddenly appeared to confirm an impression gathered by Vanderbank in their contact , a strange sense that his visitor was so agitated as to be trembling in every limb . |
| 11 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 12 | However , his stated grounds for that opinion were a figment of his imagination : his misdescriptions of the performance were so fundamental as to vitiate any factual basis for his criticism . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | There was no getting away from the fact that , as a unit , the Scotland back row were so disjointed as to be at times perilously close to a vacuum . |
| 15 | The sense of hierarchy was so subtle as to be almost non-existent . |
| 16 | His voice was so faint as to be almost inaudible . |
| 17 | In the key province of Ontario — which contained one-third of the country 's population — the majority in favour was so tiny as to give only a Pyrrhic victory to the supporters of the accord . |
| 18 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 19 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 20 | The plane 's registration number was so faded as to be illegible , but I recognised the machine anyway . |
| 21 | But any grounds for the House to consider that the appeal hearing was so defective as to require re-opening seem nonexistent . |
| 22 | " The official resolution was so drafted as to assume that non-intervention could be made a reality , … |
| 23 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 24 | If the sender is traceable , probably the most sensible thing to do is to notify him that the goods are at his risk and to request him to fetch them ; and if ( as is likely with perishables ) the goods become a nuisance , the recipient would surely be justified in abating the nuisance by destroying them , even without notice to the sender , if the emergency were so pressing as to leave him no time to give it . |
| 25 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 26 | In cases of sex murder the victim is not there to defend herself against accusations that her conduct was so dreadful as to excuse , at least partially , the man 's killing her . |
| 27 | v. McAlpine , where vibrations from pile-driving caused structural damage to a large hotel on adjoining land , Astbury J. held it to be a bad plea that the vibrations had this effect only because the hotel was so old as to be abnormally unstable ; but he found also that the evidence did not establish that it was in such a condition . |
| 28 | The contrast during the week of mission was so extraordinary as to affect Ramsey 's life . |
| 29 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 30 | Both as critics and film-makers their creed was so consistent as to encourage producers to contact any of their colleagues , and after the international success of such films as A Bout de Souffle , Hiroshima Mon Amour and Les Quatre Cents Coups , Doniol-Valcroze was able to make his feature debut in 1960 with L'Eau a la Bouche . |