Example sentences of "being [adv] [adj] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not for the first time , Beth asked herself how she could so readily condemn David for being so weak as to love someone who had treated him in such a callous and despicable manner , when she herself was guilty of the very same weakness ! |
| 2 | The French opposition may be described as right-wing but coporatism runs deep in France , so there 's no chance of any new government being so radical as to privatise France Telecom : the state phone company is not on the list of firms that France 's centre-right opposition may privatise if , as polls suggest , it wins March 's parliamentary elections , former president Valery Giscard d'Estaing said — Giscard , leader of the UDF party , told a news conference that all companies operating in the competitive sector of the economy would be candidates for privatisation , but that France Telecom , and nationalised transport and energy monopolies , would not . |
| 3 | Oil prices had fallen from $29 to below $20 a barrel ( the sharpest one-day fall on record ) on Jan. 17 , in response to the initial assessment that allied air raids on Iraq were being so successful as to promise rapid military victory . |
| 4 | In any case , all of these uses evoke the speaker 's view of the possibility of someone being so audacious as to perform the event denoted by the infinitive , and all imply a negative prejudice against such a thing being possible . |
| 5 | ‘ However the discussion happily turned very soon on to the question of procedure , ’ Amery recorded , ‘ and the desirability , in which we all concurred , of the statement being so framed as to avoid our being pushed into a general election this autumn . ’ |
| 6 | Both subscriptions cost about £800 per year and both have the nasty habit of being so voluminous as to go largely unread . |
| 7 | Often it will be found that a text starts with the B signatures , the preliminaries rarely being so obliging as to add up to a complete signature . |
| 8 | So far I have discussed two attempts to distinguish the different types of political system in terms of an evolutionary scheme ; one of them ( that of Spencer ) being so abstract as to have little value in establishing a precise historical sequence , while the other ( that of Marx ) possesses less of an evolutionary character than may at first sight appear and leaves unsolved many problems in the construction of an adequate typology of precapitalist and capitalist societies . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | She could not imagine him chasing after other women once he had committed himself , could not imagine him being so insensitive as to leave a woman — his woman — wondering why he was so late arriving home , or whether he was coming home at all . |
| 11 | The Lutheran scholar Robert Jenson chastises Christian feminists for being so foolish as to think that the term ‘ Father ’ is being used univocally ( having the same connotations ) when used of human fathers and of God ; as though to imply that there is sexuality in God . |
| 12 | She begged pardon at once for — being so free as to presume I will be read but then , ma'am , you must blame yourself for encouraging in me that letter-writing soul . |