Example sentences of "so [adv] [verb] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A similar result was avoided in The Lisboa where the clause was so widely drawn as to suggest that even proceedings for execution of the award were prohibited ; as such an interpretation would lead to the clause being null and void by virtue of section 8 of the Carriage of Goods by Sea Act 1924 , the Court of Appeal adopted a more limited interpretation under which proceeds for execution or to obtain security , including security by means of a Mareva injunction , were allowed . |
| 2 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 3 | To simply state that the fathers or biblical authors believed something does not address the question as to whether they were right , or whether our picture of the world has not so much changed as to make theirs fantastic . |
| 4 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 5 | This is less a matter of mass versus elite culture than it is of controlled laboratory situations : what is so highly specialised as to seem aberrant and uncharacteristic in the ( world ) of daily life … can often yield crucial information about the properties of an object of study whose familiar everyday forms obscure it . |
| 6 | I think I would n't of thought they 'd be so thick skinned as to turn away help , that so much help , I just ca n't see it |
| 7 | Russia 's envy is understandable when , under communist government , the state 's doctors were so slightly rewarded as to make illegal private practice inevitable . |
| 8 | The manor house at Cosmeston has traditionally been called a castle , but it may not have been so extensively fortified as to warrant this name . |
| 9 | If the throat is so severely swollen as to cause difficulty breathing . |
| 10 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 11 | The two component parts of Owen 's productive classes had been placed on the opposite sides of a divide ; and their separation into ‘ them and us ’ was now so far completed as to have become irreversible . |
| 12 | By institutionalising conflict , party politics provides the means by which the accumulated potential of passionate conviction may be so far discharged as to avoid its most damaging manifestations : where the resources available to the forces for and against change are evenly balanced , civil war ; where they are greater for those against change , repression ; and where they are greater for those for change , revolution . |
| 13 | Secondly , the system circumscribed professional activity , constrained initiative , and demanded acquiescence in a curriculum that was so narrowly conceived as to represent a parody of education . |
| 14 | Once distant from the history , it is difficult to envisage just how powerful that central imperative was and how often the options available were so narrowly restricted as to exclude most of what the party was supposed to stand for . |
| 15 | ‘ It appears to me that the whole question is governed by the broad , general , universal principle that English legislation , unless the contrary is expressly enacted or so plainly implied as to make it the duty of an English court to give effect to an English statute , is applicable only to English subjects or to foreigners who by coming into this country , whether for a long or a short time , have made themselves during that time subject to English jurisdiction . |
| 16 | Peter had taken the flute from Tom , Tom was dancing with Alice and Jarvis capering with Jay , while Tina and Billy were half under the table in a clinch so tightly intertwined as to seem to make one person of them . |
| 17 | It is equally worth noting if the class is so tightly controlled as to inhibit seriously pupil response . |
| 18 | Any criteria for defining ‘ privileged information ’ , or what the ‘ dangers ’ are in revealing such matters as dispositions ( of manpower ) are so vaguely incorporated as to ensure that few will risk submitting an essay without approval , which might later be assessed as an ‘ improper disclosure ’ . |
| 19 | ‘ Few projects for amending the condition of the needy , and for the reduction of parish rates , would be so beneficially devised as to build lodging houses in places where they were likely to be let : and in what way could money be more securely deposited than by a general subscription , in shares of fifty or one hundred pounds each : five thousand pounds would build a number of houses , worth from five to twenty-five pounds per annum , or double that sum if furnished . ’ |
| 20 | The result was that when Bollaert finally made his speech on 10 September it was obvious that , for all the rhetoric and for all the idealization of the French Union , if it was independence that France was offering , it was so heavily circumscribed as to make it obvious that France had , at most , transferred the Jacobin concept of ‘ the nation one and indivisible ’ to a French Union in which she would still be in a commanding position . |
| 21 | Bulbs of the future which are on show include daffodils of the ‘ split corona ’ or ‘ butterfly ’ type with double cups so heavily ruffled as to obscure their identity . |
| 22 | The connectives may be separate and distinct throughout the body as in Machilis and Corydalis , or in the thorax only as in the Orthoptera , Coleoptera and many Lepidopteran larvae , but usually they are so closely approximated as to form a single longitudinal cord . |
| 23 | Suppose nevertheless that one party were so ill advised as to field candidates who would openly compete with each other in political terms . |
| 24 | It is only if the existing and permitted uses of the land are so seriously affected as to render the land incapable of reasonably beneficial use that the owner can take advantage of the purchase notice procedure . |