Example sentences of "so [adv] as [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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1 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |
2 | Ellen forgot herself so far as to sit down plump on the bed . |
3 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
4 | The publisher Moxon went so far as to put out an edition of the Shelley forgeries , with an introduction by Robert Browning . |
5 | He also expressed regret that , so far as taking up arms was concerned , he was ‘ no good ’ as a shot . |
6 | Equity says no , and soon goes so far as to lay down a rule that a mortgage is a mere security for money , and something quite different from a genuine transfer of the ownership . |
7 | Some dealers have even gone so far as to pass off their businesses as zoos ( see BBC WILDLIFE , November , p798 ) . |
8 | At the end of 1854 another Slavophile , Iurii Samarin , went so far as to speak up for peasants who murdered their landlords . |
9 | Surely they would n't go so far as to break in ? |
10 | by no means ‘ lightly advancing thro ’ her star-trimm 'd crowd' — he had even gone so far as to look up Lantor 's lines about Ianthe — but perhaps women could n't be expected always to live up to what poets wrote about them . |
11 | Should it fail so spectacularly as to break up , the ‘ specialist in unpaid work ’ is left with depleted earning power . |