Example sentences of "so [adj] as [to-vb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | You see , my dear , we had a little difficulty over which should adorn the top of the tree , the star of Bethlehem which is of course the only proper thing as well as being the only thing countenanced by the Rector , or an immensely glittering and unsuitable fairy doll someone was so ill-judged as to give to Helen . |
| 2 | Beethoven , among others , could not comprehend how Mozart could have stooped so low as to set to music such an apparently frivolous text , dealing with the fickleness of women ; and the prudish moral climate of the later 19th century made sure that Così was conveniently ignored as a little aberration . |
| 3 | It would not entitle the buyer to reject all other instalments unless the seller 's breach was so serious as to amount to a repudiation of the contract ( see paragraph 11–08 below ) . |
| 4 | Other adjustments may be so serious as to amount to jettisoning a carefully worked-out position . |
| 5 | In another case the court upheld an elector 's right to see council documents ( a statutory right without qualification , as here ) unless his request ‘ was so oppressive as to amount to an abuse of the right ’ . |
| 6 | She did not rage so much against Aunt Emily but more at herself for being so naive as to agree to and promote a plan that any less raw and unworldly creature than herself would have seen was hardly possible . |
| 7 | And as your Lordship is so good as to talk to some of the Agents that deal that way I shall be exceedingly obliged … if any thing can be done ’ . |
| 8 | The specimens you were so good as to send to me by Captain Lyon would have been a treasure had they arrived safe ; but his ship was taken by the French , so those were all lost , which is a great misfortune at this time , when they would have been of great service to me , in ascertaining the names of some plants which remain doubtful . |
| 9 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 10 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 11 | Did the accused intend that the period of his keeping the machinery would be so long as to amount to an outright taking ? |
| 12 | There was the contact with friendly adults , but not so close as to suggest to the children that their real parents were being supplanted — a common resentment in foster homes . |
| 13 | The House of Lords held that it did not : since the essence of dangerous driving was negligence , a driver should only be convicted of manslaughter if his driving was so bad as to amount to the gross negligence required under the third head of involuntary manslaughter ( see below ) . |