Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] as ask " in BNC.

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1 " Would you be so good as to ask Mr Lee to step out here please .
2 ‘ Kindly adjust the temperature , Mr Peckham , before it boils away , and then be so good as to ask Mr Pegg if he can spare the time to rejoin us . ’
3 Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’
4 If this were so , an examination of an animal for pain-related behaviour would be as good as asking the animal if it was in pain .
5 Therefore , asking questions about objectives , planning , choice and evaluation may not be as important as asking questions about political forces at work if resource patterns are to be understood .
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