Example sentences of "been so [adj] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was impossible to believe she could have been so stupid as to let Marc kiss her ! |
| 2 | Men like Ryan , and probably Leo , could have their pick of women , which made it even more unbelievable that she had been so stupid as to believe Ryan . |
| 3 | Could Filmer have been so stupid as to get the horses ' names wrong in addition to the cities ? |
| 4 | He disliked the use of extemporary prayers , saying , ‘ There needed no other confutation than to take them down in shorthand and shew them afterwards to those men that had been so audacious as to utter them . ’ |
| 5 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 6 | Owen cursed himself for having been so foolhardy as to get involved in this affair . |
| 7 | It was widely held that the Koreans would not be ready for independence when the war ended : memories of the closing phase of the Yi dynasty did not inspire confidence in Korean ability for effective government and the era of Japanese dominance had been so repressive as to necessitate a period of readjustment . |
| 8 | How cold she have been so callous as to forget Berenice 's unborn baby ? |
| 9 | He mentioned also that " The inhabitants of the town have been so good as to rebuild me the Court wall and make some improvements in the yard , and they are very desirous for the Company to lend their aid " . |
| 10 | ‘ Well , ’ said Fribble , ‘ Calatin here has been so kind as to invite me to stay for a while . |
| 11 | No ‘ amateur ’ models could have been so photogenic as to command such a price . |
| 12 | They never had been so unfortunate as to have intruders , and were unlikely to start now . |
| 13 | Folly wondered just how she could have been so naïve as to accept Luke 's explanation of the porter 's tale . |
| 14 | Sitting by her bedroom window later that night , Laura lectured herself for having been so naïve as to have been upset by the remarks he had originally made on the dance-floor . |
| 15 | ‘ Having made such a botch-up on coal , it is amazing that the Government have been so bloody-minded as to push on full steam ahead without prior consultation with the industry and regardless of a potentially devastating impact on jobs . ’ |
| 16 | As Gillespie remarks , even in Edinburgh , the craft unions were able to see to it that only union men worked Linotypes , and " by the end of the century , it was generally agreed that the effect of machines on employment had not been so bad as feared " . |
| 17 | As three men slowly looked away McLeish received the uncompromising message that if any of them had been so lucky as to have dinner with Catherine Crane , none of them would have let her pay for herself . |
| 18 | If they 'd had a key , they would n't have been so careless as to leave it open , would they ? ’ |
| 19 | For such reasons overall progress with budgetary decentralization was described by the public Accounts Committee ( 1986–7c , paras 34–8 ) as having been so slow as to threaten ‘ the [ very ] success of the FMI ’ . |
| 20 | ‘ I notice , ’ he said in good English , ‘ that you have been so bold as to ask for food at this late hour . |
| 21 | Almost certainly it would have been the executors , after consultation with the family , as not even a cabinet-maker used to the undertaking trade would have been so bold as to have proceeded with such an elaborate item without having first enquired of the executors . |
| 22 | He blamed the fall of the city on the impiety and general degeneracy of the people , who had been so foolish as to ally themselves with Christians in the first place . |
| 23 | Surely she could n't really have been so foolish as to fall in love with Guido Falcone ? |
| 24 | How could she have been so foolish as to imagine he had issued the invitation on a personal level ? |
| 25 | How could he have been so foolish as to stretch out away from the shade of the trees ? |