Example sentences of "was [adv] [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 2 | Both as critics and film-makers their creed was so consistent as to encourage producers to contact any of their colleagues , and after the international success of such films as A Bout de Souffle , Hiroshima Mon Amour and Les Quatre Cents Coups , Doniol-Valcroze was able to make his feature debut in 1960 with L'Eau a la Bouche . |
| 3 | In the key province of Ontario — which contained one-third of the country 's population — the majority in favour was so tiny as to give only a Pyrrhic victory to the supporters of the accord . |
| 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 | He was so subtle as to deceive even the quickest witted people . |
| 6 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 7 | Be that as it may , the discrepancy between the editorial objectives of Monde and its editorial practice was so great as to cause embarrassment in official communist circles , and to provoke open hostility from Young Turks such as Breton , Aragon and Nizan himself . |
| 8 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 9 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 10 | This system was usually applied where the grade of ore was so poor as to preclude it being worked by the tribute system . |
| 11 | This time , it was so unheralded as to appear almost artificial . |
| 12 | 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 ) . |
| 13 | But any grounds for the House to consider that the appeal hearing was so defective as to require re-opening seem nonexistent . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 16 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |
| 17 | The nationality requirement , along with the domicile and residence requirements , was so restrictive as to make ineligible for consideration as ‘ qualified companies ’ many publicly quoted companies or banks on the International Stock Exchange in London . |
| 18 | In the evening there was an example of a shift in emphasis that was so pronounced as to cause that part of the day to become an event in its own right . |
| 19 | The contrast during the week of mission was so extraordinary as to affect Ramsey 's life . |
| 20 | Indeed , some people have suggested that it was so difficult as to have been impossible , but this is to underestimate the intelligence and ingenuity of our forebears . |
| 21 | " The official resolution was so drafted as to assume that non-intervention could be made a reality , … |
| 22 | ‘ A clergyman of the neighbourhood , who was so obliging as to accompany me in this and several other rambles amongst these mountains , formed the wild idea of attempting to climb apparently up the face of the precipice , and I , eager in my pursuit , did not object to the adventure . |
| 23 | The author 's preface refers to ‘ the gentleman , who was so kind as to take care of the Publication of it , only to excuse me from appearing ’ . |
| 24 | He also said that the envelope the Brownie had kindly picked up had dropped from the Earl 's pocket without being noticed by him , and that as the Brownie was so kind as to share her sweets with him the Earl was sending a tin of his own , which he felt sure from what he had seen of this Brownie would find their way into the mouths of all the other Brownies in the Pack too . |
| 25 | I have been confined almost a year by the dislocation of one of the ankle-bones of my leg , so have not been able to get as far as the Society House , but have enclosed the shilling you was so kind as to pay for a letter from Monsieur du Hamel . |
| 26 | Both he and my own doctor warned me to stop all running for the sake of my health ; their manner was so grave as to imply danger to my life . |
| 27 | 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 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , for Sir John was so unwise as to hold up Isabel 's beauty — and she was so very beautiful , the image , apart from the hair , of Benedict — against poor Araminta . |
| 29 | He would n't have minded the meanness of only allowing one glass each , if it had n't been that the reception was so timed as to prevent that vital half-hour in the pub before closing time , which was so much a part of the necessary wind-down from giving of himself in performance . |
| 30 | Some 350 articles of equipment were carried in the 12 heavy tools vans which ran in the trains containing the steam cranes , and some of this equipment was so heavy as to need the use of demountable jib gallows with a frame at each double door to get it in and out of the van . |