Example sentences of "[be] so [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How can we be so arrogant as to say ‘ do as I do ? ’ |
| 2 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 3 | Morrissey should not be so arrogant as to think that he can , expecting no recrimination or criticism , use racist imagery without anything but the most ambiguous of reasons . |
| 4 | ‘ There was also a trail of water on the floor , but would an assassin be so clumsy as to leave that ? ’ |
| 5 | Budgets should set expenditure for principal areas of expense and may with advantage be so specific as to set amounts for individual chemical products and equipment . |
| 6 | Product names therefore should not be so specific as to exclude wider use where appropriate . |
| 7 | He also loves ‘ words which go beyond words ’ — the poetry of Baudelaire , Rimbaud , Novalis , Keats — for he feels that no human language could ever be so rich as to express perfectly all that he feels . |
| 8 | Rather than once again review the authorities in chronological order , therefore , I propose to encapsulate their effect in a number of propositions which can , I believe , be so stated as to reflect the law as it is presently understood with a reasonable degree of accuracy . |
| 9 | Would a person like Crevecoeur be so desperate as to seek sanctuary in such a place ? |
| 10 | How could he be so offensive as to stare at the chap 's disfigured face , he wondered . |
| 11 | JEWKES : O , you are very good , sir , very forgiving indeed , but come , I hope you will be so good as to take her to your bosom and that my tomorrow morning you 'll bring her to a better sense of her duty . |
| 12 | ‘ Now if the Major would be so good as to arrange a workroom , I can have the suit finished in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 13 | I shall be obliged to you if you will be so good as to let the bearer have my copy of the last year 's Transactions , in which you will greatly oblige , Sir , your most humble servant , Philip Miller . |
| 14 | Now if you will be so good as to let me pass . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Please be so good as to enlighten me . ’ |
| 16 | Would his Imperial Majesty the Shah be so good as to pause in Marrakesh on his way to the US ? |
| 17 | ‘ I think , sir , that it would be better if you — and Aycliffe also — would be so good as to leave us to settle matters to our mutual satisfaction . ’ |
| 18 | " Would you be so good as to ask Mr Lee to step out here please . |
| 19 | ‘ Kindly adjust the temperature , Mr Peckham , before it boils away , and then be so good as to ask Mr Pegg if he can spare the time to rejoin us . ’ |
| 20 | Your Grace will therefore be so good as to allow me to ask you most humbly for my discharge … seeing that when I asked you for permission to travel to Vienna three years ago you graciously declared that I had nothing to hope for in Salzburg and would do better to seek my fortune elsewhere . |
| 21 | If you would be so good as to allow me a bucket of water , provide shirt and breeches , to be paid for when the meeting is over . ’ |
| 22 | If you have information to sell , be so good as to state your price , that I may be left in privacy . |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps if you could be so good as to slip the jacket off , Major , we might complete the hanging of the trousers ? ’ |
| 24 | Perhaps you will be so good as to tell your guards to accompany me to the foot of the hill ? " |
| 25 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 26 | I will pawn my life for her , she will never be so pert to your honour if you will be so good as to molest her no more . |
| 27 | BELVILLE : [ getting a little bored with PAMELA 's compliance ] You are very obliging , Pamela , but now be so good as to find some fault with me and say what you would wish me to do to appear more agreeable to you . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Other adjustments may be so serious as to amount to jettisoning a carefully worked-out position . |
| 30 | ‘ May one be so inquisitive as to enquire what that is ? ’ |