Example sentences of "to [be] so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Handy suggested that a definition of a manager or a manager 's role is likely to be so broad as to be fairly meaningless . |
| 2 | True , it is a risk — many a spring in Britain has thrown a frost at us in April , even May is not unknown — but you are not going to be so daft as to muffle up and go out to do the pruning just because the date or some idiot article says the time is right . |
| 3 | US linguists Sapir and Whorf who investigated the Hopi Indian language in the 1930s believed it to be so distinctive as to represent an entirely different thought process . |
| 4 | I shou 'd like a cloth one best if you please — I beg of your Sir to be so good as not to fail me this Cardinal by Wednesday , without fail , but let it be full yard long I beg , or else it will not do fail not on Wednesday , and in so doing you will very much oblige me . |
| 5 | In order to confront the denial system of the sufferer , but at the same time not cause it to be so aroused as to be counter productive , it may be helpful to avoid specific terms such as " alcoholic " , " drug addict " , " anorexic " , " alcoholism " , " drug addiction " , " anorexia " and substitute a phrase such as " stress and depression and problems with alcohol ( or drugs or food etc ) " or simply " problems in your life " . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Killing things for fun seems to me to be so immoral as to warrant no discussion at all . |
| 8 | some women do and I 'm not quite clear that it has to be so definite as as er |
| 9 | This is shown by prices in the " grey market " which are often reported to be so low as to negate all of the gross fees , thus absorbing all of the underwriters ' risk premium . |
| 10 | There are already signs that the rights are to be so qualified as to become ineffective . |
| 11 | Naturally , the new dwellings had to be so arranged as to satisfy the requirements of building regulations and a significant stipulation of the old Constructional By-laws for Inner London under which this design was produced , related to the amount of daylight which must be admitted to habitable rooms . |
| 12 | Indeed , the idea that women might take control of their desire to the point where men come to be judged as objects of pleasure is felt to be so threatening as to be tabooed . |
| 13 | Bridges across the River Thames were gradually being constructed , but the one nearest to the estuary had to be so constructed as to permit the tall ships entering the London Docks , to pass under , so the Tower Bridge was designed and opened in June of 1894 . |
| 14 | These are individuals whose behaviour is considered to be so outrageous as to fall completely outside the range of actions based on reasons and causes . |
| 15 | Even if it is arguable for the purposes of theological discussion that the mode of being in which contemplative knowledge of God becomes a reality is superior to the demands of the active life , Augustine recognised that in the fallen world the two were indissolubly linked and complementary : for no one ought to be so leisured as to take no thought in that leisure for the interest of his neighbour , nor so active as to feel no need for the contemplation of God . |
| 16 | If the explanation for the violent outburst lies in something which might understandably lead a person to be so angry as to lose self-control , then this supplies an added reason for mitigating the offence and the sentence . |
| 17 | The distinction between males and females is held to be so fundamental as to be unworthy of comment . |
| 18 | Ask him to be so kind as to come here and say Mass tomorrow morning . |
| 19 | Niki got his training in fortitude and temperance when he moved to Ferrari , where they do not like drivers to be so adventuresome as to wreck cars ; James-took a year longer to learn his lesson , at McLaren . |