Example sentences of "so [adv] as [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To partake in that utterance must demand superhuman courage , courage from the divine , an ability to think so intensely as to die even from pure thought — to die a death ordained , not for self-glorification , a significant and saving death . |
| 2 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 3 | Leaving no stone unturned for its Destiny launch , the telephone company offshoot went so far as to score still another first , announcing SVR4.2 simultaneously in Europe , the Far East , the US and Russia , reportedly at a Unix user group meeting , facilitated by the famed Esther Dyson . |
| 4 | This last choice is desirable but it only delays things so far as getting home is concerned , since the forest road stops on the frontier some three miles away , and there you can but turn round . |
| 5 | ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too . |
| 6 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 7 | It describes the present position but draws attention under the heading De-materialisation of Listed Securities to the aims of the TAURUS project which may be achieved shortly after this edition is published and which will change the position markedly so far as concerns fully paid securities of listed companies . |
| 8 | Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming . |
| 9 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |