Example sentences of "be so bold as " in BNC.

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1 Almost certainly it would have been the executors , after consultation with the family , as not even a cabinet-maker used to the undertaking trade would have been so bold as to have proceeded with such an elaborate item without having first enquired of the executors .
2 ‘ I notice , ’ he said in good English , ‘ that you have been so bold as to ask for food at this late hour .
3 Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’
4 According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ .
5 Yet , if pain remains , who would be so bold as to decide when the patient 's limit of tolerance has been reached ?
6 Some people were so bold as to suggest that he had now lost his grip and was writing pretty fair garbage .
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