Example sentences of "so [adj] [conj] [to-vb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Budgets should set expenditure for principal areas of expense and may with advantage be so specific as to set amounts for individual chemical products and equipment . |
| 2 | Boniface made claims which were so large and so tactless as to produce enemies like dragon 's teeth , and the French king 's own ambitions eventually drove Boniface into Edward 's camp . |
| 3 | The position of one second tier company , Tyne-Tees , was so weak that to save costs it ‘ affiliated ’ with the network company Yorkshire TV within a joint holding company , Trident . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His job is so delicate that to ring birds like this Bill has had to train for two years under the watchful eye of a certified ringer . |
| 6 | Niki got his training in fortitude and temperance when he moved to Ferrari , where they do not like drivers to be so adventuresome as to wreck cars ; James-took a year longer to learn his lesson , at McLaren . |
| 7 | They never had been so unfortunate as to have intruders , and were unlikely to start now . |
| 8 | And , although I 'm not so bitchy as to suggest women want him only for what they can get , nine times out of ten it 's probably the truth . ’ |
| 9 | Though not so revolutionary as to require years of testing and modification ( and run the risk of ultimate rejection as in the case of the Advanced Passenger Train ) . |
| 10 | The deaf community will soon be so small as to make considerations of BSL or signing irrelevant to education . |
| 11 | As the eldest and most senior member of the regular troupe William Hartnell was frequently the cause of many a recording break due to memory lapses occasionally so hilarious as to cause Directors and artists alike to question their accidence . |