Example sentences of "is so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yesterday 's initial tour selection is so strong as to make no difference . |
| 2 | As Gombrich points out : ‘ the experience of the underlying constancies in a person 's face which is so strong as to survive all the transformations of mood and age and even to leap across generations , conflicts with the strange fact that such recognition can be inhibited with comparative ease by what may be called the mask ’ . |
| 3 | Particularly in the early period , moreover , the number of usages one comes across is so low as to make definition a hazardous business . |
| 4 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 5 | I 've managed to scan it in , but the resolution is so low as to make it unread- able . |
| 6 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 7 | This kind of love is so rare as to be almost unbelievable . |
| 8 | Occasionally , a student — perhaps in mathematics or logic — can be seen actually to make a contribution to the research literature , but that is so rare as to appear precocious . |
| 9 | For our decade-conscious brains , an event that happens only once per aeon is so rare as to seem a major miracle . |
| 10 | It is so weak as not really to provide a genuine sense of ‘ conclusive ’ , but this does n't really matter . |
| 11 | The supply of left-handed clubs is so insufficient as to deter those left-handers who may be considering taking up the sport . |
| 12 | He would hear news of her , which he would find hard to bear , because a fragment of information about a familiar who has suddenly become perplexing is so insufficient as to be nearly intolerable . |
| 13 | In front of the entrance there is a pillar of rock forty feet high , called the Soldier Rock , and the entrance itself is so narrow as only to admit a small boat , and then only in fine weather . |
| 14 | I am glad to see from your report of the psychiatrist Professor Michael Rutter 's lecture at the Royal Institution that despite his former membership of the Lawther Working Party on lead pollution , Rutter now acknowledges that the hazard from lead in petrol is so serious as to require a total ban ( This Week , 3 March , p 567 ) . |
| 15 | Unless the seller commits a breach of condition or commits a breach of warranty which is so serious as to deprive the buyer of substantially the whole benefit of the contract , the buyer has no right to reject the goods or recover the price ( see paragraph 7–04 above ) . |
| 16 | Since Tyvek is so impervious as to be virtually waterproof and indestructible , the strength of seams becomes very important if the kite is large and to be flown in high –A , in– |
| 17 | It is this count which increases the search time from the original 26-way tree , but the decrease in memory usage is so great as to out weigh this slower search . |
| 18 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 19 | There is a very slight rise in death-rate in those who are mildly overweight , grade 1 , and also in those who are underweight , grade-1. but this low rise is so small as to be insignificant . |
| 20 | I have suggested that there is an important connection between the linguistic and the metalinguistic , since the important thing about sex difference is not what it is so much as what it is made to mean . |
| 21 | No one , on this warm summer afternoon , is so much as visible at a window . |
| 22 | Whether a decision is so unreasonable as to be unlawful depends , in Lord Diplock 's words , on whether it is ‘ so outrageous in its defiance of logic or of accepted moral standards that no sensible person who has applied his mind to the question to be decided could have arrived at it ’ . |
| 23 | The court at first instance can always distinguish except in very similar cases , and appeal is not easy unless a judgment is so unreasonable as to be perverse . |
| 24 | Sometimes a problem is so worded as to involve two successive questions , but the second question logically arises only if the first is answered in a certain way . |
| 25 | It is so presented as to invite us to see no difference between on the one hand management appointed by , acting for , and accountable to owners , and on the other union representatives appointed by , acting for , and accountable to employees . |
| 26 | The water is so alive as to be slightly horrific . |
| 27 | How can we know how strong our faith really is so long as we are comparatively untroubled in a world of material affluence , social ease and spiritual privilege ? |
| 28 | Such interaction is threatened when the pace of change is too fast or when the nature of that change is so radical as to transform the nature of the activity . |
| 29 | The theme is so persistent as to invite analysis . |
| 30 | And as your Lordship is so good as to talk to some of the Agents that deal that way I shall be exceedingly obliged … if any thing can be done ’ . |