Example sentences of "so [adj] as not [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 2 | A common-sense assumption , so obvious as not to need labelling as such . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They often suffered from vaginismus , but they invariably praised their husbands for being ‘ exceptionally kind ’ , passive , totally understanding and ‘ so good as not to bother me ’ . |
| 5 | Er but if they 're a sensing thinking person they will find it almost totally incomprehensible , that you 've been so lax as not to have actually worked out in detail erm you know what their job is ? |
| 6 | Up to now the possibility had seemed so remote as not to need consideration — an order given by Hardy as a matter of course , accepted by Denis as a standard instruction in an operation of this nature . |
| 7 | In general , however , the contract of a mentally disordered person is fully binding on him unless the other party was aware that he was so insane as not to understand the nature of the transaction . |
| 8 | 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 . |