Example sentences of "will [be] so [adj] as " in BNC.

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1 If you 'll be so kind as to tell him I 've arrived . ’
2 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 .
3 Now if you will be so good as to let me pass . ’
4 Perhaps you will be so good as to tell your guards to accompany me to the foot of the hill ? "
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 ONE CONSORTIUM , Five TV , hopes that the imagined problems will be so great as to discourage competition and that all potential investors ( who include The Daily Telegraph ) will accrete to its application and that the ITC will be left with a choice of one .
8 It will be so long as I am sitting in this office . ’
9 ‘ I am not myself convinced that the Government will be so foolish as to go so far as to privatise water .
10 The sensitivity of the test is such that a diluted specimen may still give a positive result , but the contaminants will be so dilute as not to cause a problem .
11 Ambleside , and , if Mrs. Marshall be not yet arrived at Headingley , I beg you will be so kind as to open it , and look over the Books .
12 For the very rich , the tax will be so trivial as to be unnoticed .
13 Price that at trade-union rates and you will be so frightened as to consider insuring them !
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