Example sentences of "is so [adj] as to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of love is so rare as to be almost unbelievable . |
| 2 | He would hear news of her , which he would find hard to bear , because a fragment of information about a familiar who has suddenly become perplexing is so insufficient as to be nearly intolerable . |
| 3 | Since Tyvek is so impervious as to be virtually waterproof and indestructible , the strength of seams becomes very important if the kite is large and to be flown in high –A , in– |
| 4 | It is this count which increases the search time from the original 26-way tree , but the decrease in memory usage is so great as to out weigh this slower search . |
| 5 | There is a very slight rise in death-rate in those who are mildly overweight , grade 1 , and also in those who are underweight , grade-1. but this low rise is so small as to be insignificant . |
| 6 | Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 7 | The court at first instance can always distinguish except in very similar cases , and appeal is not easy unless a judgment is so unreasonable as to be perverse . |
| 8 | The water is so alive as to be slightly horrific . |
| 9 | It is so predictable as to be almost inevitable . |
| 10 | Professor Williams criticises the attitude of some courts as being that a person may use ‘ only force that is so mild as to be ineffective . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Depreciation rate ’ is a term sometimes used to describe the rate of physical decline of existing stock to a point where it is so decrepit as to be no longer usable . |
| 12 | Sometimes an objection is raised which is so general as to be difficult to counter . |
| 13 | Boogification pervades the entire vocal , though the quick tempo means there is less scope for accenting off-beat notes , and often the effect is so fast as to be a rhythm vibrato . |
| 14 | The problem is , they will not own up to their selectivity ( perhaps because in most cases , it is so biased as to be indefensible ) . |
| 15 | In Poems and Versions ( Carcanet , £6.95 ) David Wright 's contribution to this sub-genre is so bad as to be fascinating : I turn the leaves of memory To see you , prince of Rathbone Place , In blackout years , defying with Magnanimous and careless spirit … |
| 16 | Its use is so long-standing as to be recorded at least 5,000 years ago — in Sumeria . |
| 17 | Give yourself time to settle down with a new program before you draw the conclusion that it is so buggy as to be unusable . |
| 18 | The technique of squeezing the last mark out of the examination game ( for it is so artificial as to be a game ) needs as much practice as mastering the breast stroke or converting a try . |
| 19 | Despite the three-hour length , the descent of Kathy Bates 's character into madness is so abrupt as to be risible . |
| 20 | If the decision is so brief as to be inadequate , this may provide grounds for an appeal to the Commissioners , since it will amount to an error of law . |
| 21 | It still depends on flow-patterns , even when the air is so thin as to be almost negligible . |
| 22 | Although common in gardens and freely available from nurseries and garden centres it is so classy-looking as to be favoured by plantsmen with the most esoteric tastes . |
| 23 | The general sentiment is so unexceptionable as to be positively sedative . |
| 24 | When it is suggested to him that it may be necessary and unavoidable to kill those who oppress mankind in the same way as it is necessary and unavoidable to hill a homicidal lunatic who threatens society , his reply is that no man is so evil as to be beyond redemption , and no man so perfect as to be justified in killing these whom he considers to be evil . |
| 25 | At the heart my belief … is the conviction that no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study . |
| 26 | When Scholes writes that ‘ no text is so trivial as to be outside the bounds of humanistic study ’ , I am reminded of C. S. Lewis 's argument that any piece of writing has a claim to being literary if someone can read it in a ‘ literary ’ — i.e. an absorbed , attentive , loving — fashion . |
| 27 | MERSEYRAIL 'S ‘ cash pledge ’ really is so naive as to be almost beyond belief . |
| 28 | In fact , the partnership model , as Regan ( 1983 , p. 46 ) puts it , ‘ is so loose as to be almost vacuous ’ . |
| 29 | To say that it is peaceful is an understatement ; it is so quiet as to be almost unsettling for anyone used to the never-ending noise of the city . |
| 30 | The machines find them , or anyway , enough of them , so that the computers can often win despite an intrinsic quality of play that is so inane as to be comic , as is readily apparent when two computers play each other . |