Example sentences of "so [adj] as have [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Was it however so paradoxical as to have dealt a death blow to the theory ? |
2 | It 's nice to know that the Man Utd fans still feel so inadequate as to have to post things to the Leeds newsgroup . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
5 | Nothing is so bad as having to imagine . ’ |