Example sentences of "so [adj] as to require " in BNC.
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| 1 | For those tenants who become so dependent as to require more intensive care than can be reasonably provided in sheltered housing the survey asks : " Are they to be " bolstered up " by extra warden support ( and other sources of help ) or are they to be transferred to more appropriate settings ? " |
| 2 | 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 ) . |
| 3 | But the proposition that the discretionary power contended for can be spelled out of the statutory language is , to me , so startling as to require the premise of the proposition to be very carefully examined . |
| 4 | This would leave a difficult boundary for patients with learning difficulties so profound as to require treatment in a hospital or specialist residential home , the former being free and the latter funded by social services and means tested . |
| 5 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 6 | They were not so big as to require steam lifting machinery and powered saws . |
| 7 | But any grounds for the House to consider that the appeal hearing was so defective as to require re-opening seem nonexistent . |
| 8 | 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 . |