Example sentences of "so strong as " in BNC.

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1 He replied , ‘ the unity of the masses with the party was never so strong as now .
2 Yesterday 's initial tour selection is so strong as to make no difference .
3 Here it was again , but so strong as to be an insult to the word stench .
4 All of which goes to show that masculine reason and logic are perhaps not so strong as you may have supposed .
5 We begin with the argument that the evidence for a Deity might be so strong as to undermine faith .
6 She can write lines so strong as to be almost terrifying …
7 Such an agency generates a repulsive force which eventually becomes so strong as to halt the contraction of the object and to make it ‘ bounce ’ .
8 Whereas Marx is usually thought to have envisaged a classless society in which people will no longer be deluded by false consciousness , Althusser has posited a determinism so strong as to be inescapable .
9 One might think that clause 2 is insufficient : to believe that p is not so strong as to be certain that p , and to know one must be certain , not just believe .
10 The shield may not have proved quite so strong as they had expected , and in more recent times it has been supported by offensive weapons , such as inspections or investigations instigated by the Department of Trade and Industry .
11 If , in addition , I were accompanied by his fifteen soldiers I believed we should be too strong a party to invite attack , while not so strong as to alarm and provoke the tribes .
12 The statement that ‘ Britain can not afford to go it alone ’ is usually presented as a matter of fact , as a point so strong as to be undebatable .
13 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 ’ .
14 It would , for example , be no defence for the seller to say that his farm fertiliser was perfectly safe and effective when applied in the right concentration ( at the right time of the year ) if the instructions supplied with the fertiliser stated in error the wrong concentration , whether too weak to be effective or so strong as to kill the crops .
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