Example sentences of "so [adj] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
| 2 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 3 | Be so good now as to march these miscreants to Mutton House . |
| 4 | How , she wondered bemusedly , could she have been so trivial recently as to wish to upset these unexceptionable people . |
| 5 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |