Example sentences of "was so [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 | The Mayoral party would receive a formal greeting to Waterside , … which was the proper old ancient Borough centuries before the town up and over was so much as dreamed of . |
8 | The Knight Marischal shouted back that since it was unthinkable that any such deed would be carried out , and a disgrace to the knightly code that it was so much as suggested , there would be no yielding up of the town . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
12 | This system was usually applied where the grade of ore was so poor as to preclude it being worked by the tribute system . |
13 | This time , it was so unheralded as to appear almost artificial . |
14 | 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 ) . |
15 | But any grounds for the House to consider that the appeal hearing was so defective as to require re-opening seem nonexistent . |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | The contrast during the week of mission was so extraordinary as to affect Ramsey 's life . |
22 | 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 . |
23 | " The official resolution was so drafted as to assume that non-intervention could be made a reality , … |
24 | ‘ 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 . |
25 | 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 ’ . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 ) . |
30 | ‘ 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 . |