Example sentences of "[is] so [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's initial tour selection is so strong as to make no difference . |
| 2 | As Gombrich points out : ‘ the experience of the underlying constancies in a person 's face which is so strong as to survive all the transformations of mood and age and even to leap across generations , conflicts with the strange fact that such recognition can be inhibited with comparative ease by what may be called the mask ’ . |
| 3 | Particularly in the early period , moreover , the number of usages one comes across is so low as to make definition a hazardous business . |
| 4 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 5 | I 've managed to scan it in , but the resolution is so low as to make it unread- able . |
| 6 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 7 | For our decade-conscious brains , an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle . |
| 8 | Occasionally , a student — perhaps in mathematics or logic — can be seen actually to make a contribution to the research literature , but that is so rare as to appear precocious . |
| 9 | The supply of left-handed clubs is so insufficient as to deter those left-handers who may be considering taking up the sport . |
| 10 | I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter 's lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution , Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban ( This Week , 3 March , p 567 ) . |
| 11 | Unless the seller commits a breach of condition or commits a breach of warranty which is so serious as to deprive the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract , the buyer has no right to reject the goods or recover the price ( see paragraph 7–04 above ) . |
| 12 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 13 | Sometimes a problem is so worded as to involve two successive questions , but the second question logically arises only if the first is answered in a certain way . |
| 14 | It is so presented as to invite us to see no difference between on the one hand management appointed by , acting for , and accountable to owners , and on the other union representatives appointed by , acting for , and accountable to employees . |
| 15 | Such interaction is threatened when the pace of change is too fast or when the nature of that change is so radical as to transform the nature of the activity . |
| 16 | The theme is so persistent as to invite analysis . |
| 17 | And as your Lordship is so good as to talk to some of the Agents that deal that way I shall be exceedingly obliged … if any thing can be done ’ . |
| 18 | As part of the registration process the Law Society must satisfy itself that the legal profession of which the applicant is a member is one which is so regulated as to make it appropriate : — |
| 19 | Firstly , we have ‘ a state of affairs that is so acute as to constitute a danger ’ — and , we would add , a moral challenge of a scale which makes it one of the most pressing social issues of the day . |
| 20 | No dog is so obstinate as to starve itself to death . |
| 21 | The possibility of this happening by chance is so remote as to defy calculation . |
| 22 | This apparent infall is so fast as to smother the expanding white hole . |
| 23 | I have argued throughout this paper against the various theories that hold that human aggression is so formidable as to require special mechanisms for handling or redirection . |
| 24 | Nothing is so bad as having to imagine . ’ |
| 25 | The profile of the vertical curve is so calculated as to correspond with the gradually diminishing hauling effort of the descending tank as it enters the water . |
| 26 | What is more , Locke 's interpretation of what consent involves is so accommodating as to evacuate the notion of much substance . |
| 27 | I find comparisons at the moment impossible to contemplate as this reading is so shattering as to rule out any other . |
| 28 | There may be uncertainties in interpreting an ultrasound picture ; the prognosis of the abnormality detected is not always known ; and in some groups of defects , such as oesophageal atresia or obstructive defects of urinary system , it is not always clear whether the defect is so severe as to justify abortion or whether surgery might be successful . |
| 29 | As Czeizel and colleagues point out , ‘ it is not always clear whether the defect is so severe as to justify abortion or whether surgery might be successful . ’ |
| 30 | The TGAT Report suggests that headteachers might exempt children with language difficulties in English from tests where the problem is so severe as to render the assessment unworkable . |