Example sentences of "so [adv] [adj] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A restrained virility that boded ill for anyone so incredibly foolish as to even think of challenging his authority . |
| 2 | L. Stettner quotes Sachs : She quotes also from other studies to show that these co-operatives are better able to survive under adversity than are conventionally organised plywood manufacturing firms , and why : in a phrase , higher productivity , so much higher as to result in some cases in value added per labour-hour of more than twice that of those firms . |
| 3 | The central importance attached to the inefficiency of labour markets is either so generally abstract as to have little or no practical application or so partial as to ignore the necessary interdependence between labour supply and a whole range of institutions . |
| 4 | ‘ How can you be so utterly selfish as to uproot the child from her home and school at this stage , when nothing has been finally decided by the court ? |
| 5 | But these choices are not seen as being so individually idiosyncratic as to make crime totally unpredictable or uncontrollable . |
| 6 | For Gauntlett 's product is that most impeccably British of all motor-cars ( not automobiles ) , the Aston Martin : a car so devastatingly English as to make Rolls-Bentleys seem like Hondas . |
| 7 | Neither Boswell nor Johnson would have been so damningly ungracious as to suggest ( as other Scottish cities accused ) , that in the interests of free drink Aberdeen 's city fathers were promiscuous with their honours . |
| 8 | ‘ Respiratory failure at 11.30 p.m. ’ she said ( why did women have to be so scrupulously exact as to detail ? ) ‘ and before that he could n't swallow . |
| 9 | It becomes easy to picture himself and Boswell here , their servant outside holding the horse 's head , while Johnson 's taxi , his post-chaise , waited : ‘ The arch of one of the gates is entire , and another only so far dilapidated as to diversify the appearance , ; Sam himself with his famous stick prodding in the weeds , gauging the cut of the stone as he might examine the shoulders of a friend 's new frock-coat , measuring distances , tracing nave , crossing , choir , transept — inhaling meaning and implication , and converting it into judgment and knowledge . |
| 10 | So he said he did n't care where he went so as much as to say so I thought right then we 'll go to the Regal tonight . |
| 11 | It is not without considerable irony that he should choose an example which is so uniquely interventionist as to render his previous assertion almost meaningless . |
| 12 | The eminence referred to is not a striking local geographical feature , and the ‘ small Rivulet ’ is presumably the Fleet River , which was so often flash-flooded as to give the area towards Battle Bridge ( Kings Cross ) the name of ‘ Pancras Wash ’ . |
| 13 | Donald would issue a death certificate for any cause you suggested to him ; this case , Henry felt , might be so staggeringly self-explanatory as to allow him to come to a diagnosis off his own bat . |
| 14 | Given his tiny literary output — four books and a play in 45 years — he wrote endlessly about his habits , frustrations and miseries : even his one novel We think the World of You was so transparently autobiographical as to prompt fears of a libel action . |
| 15 | At the Swan Hotel in Stratford , Mrs Roscoe had just completed her evening meal , a concoction of beans so splendidly bleak as to delight the most dedicated Vegan . |
| 16 | One might , of course , argue that all talk of non-conscious mental processes is so philosophically problematic as to outlaw cognitive psychology in general ( irrespective of whether it uses AI-ideas ) ( Malcolm 1971 ) . |
| 17 | How could he have been so shortsighted , so absolutely thick as to worry about commitment when the girl he was worried about committing to was Alexandra ? |