Example sentences of "was so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | So I was n't bitter when I put myself into the hands of the surgeon and that splendid bank nurse was so thoughtful as to ask me the question . |
| 2 | What it did was to produce complex mathematical calculations to show that the risk of their happening was so remote as to be discountable . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the key province of Ontario — which contained one-third of the country 's population — the majority in favour was so tiny as to give only a Pyrrhic victory to the supporters of the accord . |
| 5 | ‘ … one was a female pauper of very advanced age who had laboured for many years under a complication of incurable disorders , and her situation was so desperate as to have precluded her from being received into the House had it not happened that she was the first patient presented . |
| 6 | The sense of hierarchy was so subtle as to be almost non-existent . |
| 7 | He was so subtle as to deceive even the quickest witted people . |
| 8 | At times when I sensed that the gulf between Jean-Claude and me was so wide as to be almost unbridgeable , I would wonder how it was that our love-making had lost nothing of its fervour . |
| 9 | Of the second here illustrated , the Moss Provence , Miller said that it had not long been known in London and the first time he saw it ‘ was in 1727 in the garden of Dr Boerhaave near Leyden who was so good as to give me one of the plants , but from where it came I could not learn . |
| 10 | We had to pay a $300 cash deposit , refundable on delivery , or entirely lost if there was so much as a cigarette burn in the carpet . |
| 11 | The Mayoral party would receive a formal greeting to Waterside , … which was the proper old ancient Borough centuries before the town up and over was so much as dreamed of . |
| 12 | The Knight Marischal shouted back that since it was unthinkable that any such deed would be carried out , and a disgrace to the knightly code that it was so much as suggested , there would be no yielding up of the town . |
| 13 | The five minutes were almost up , and she would n't put it past Lori to leave if she was so much as a second late . |
| 14 | Over a long period then , the cost of elections was still more than the cost of the permanent organization , and this cost was so great as to rule out all but a tiny minority . |
| 15 | Be that as it may , the discrepancy between the editorial objectives of Monde and its editorial practice was so great as to cause embarrassment in official communist circles , and to provoke open hostility from Young Turks such as Breton , Aragon and Nizan himself . |
| 16 | Franco conducted it on his own terms , however , which meant that it was so gradual as to be barely perceptible at times , and designed to show him in the most favourable light possible . |
| 17 | This suddenly appeared to confirm an impression gathered by Vanderbank in their contact , a strange sense that his visitor was so agitated as to be trembling in every limb . |
| 18 | His voice was so faint as to be almost inaudible . |
| 19 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 20 | This system was usually applied where the grade of ore was so poor as to preclude it being worked by the tribute system . |
| 21 | Stalling for time , China appealed to the West for support , but the response was so muted as to be useless . |
| 22 | To get out was a considerable achievement : to go on to etch his own personality on the world was so rare as to be wonderful : but to do it on his own terms , in his own way and to do exactly as he wanted was astounding . |
| 23 | Rangers initially were of the opinion that their share of the tickets for the Velodrome in Marseille was so unsatisfactory as to be more trouble than it was worth . |
| 24 | This time , it was so unheralded as to appear almost artificial . |
| 25 | It would not entitle the buyer to reject all other instalments unless the seller 's breach was so serious as to amount to a repudiation of the contract ( see paragraph 11–08 below ) . |
| 26 | A reviewer of a hangman program recently suggested that the detail was so gruesome as to be unsuitable for young children ! |
| 27 | But any grounds for the House to consider that the appeal hearing was so defective as to require re-opening seem nonexistent . |
| 28 | You see , my dear , we had a little difficulty over which should adorn the top of the tree , the star of Bethlehem which is of course the only proper thing as well as being the only thing countenanced by the Rector , or an immensely glittering and unsuitable fairy doll someone was so ill-judged as to give to Helen . |
| 29 | One version has it that this Byzantine princess caused a collection of manuscripts to be brought to Moscow that was so splendid as to leave sixteenth-century eyewitnesses dumbfounded . |
| 30 | I had once taken hold of a piece of rock , and was about to trust my whole weight upon , it , when it loosened from its bed , and I should have been sent headlong to the bottom had I not instinctively snatched hold of a tuft of grass , which grew close by it , and was so firm as to save me . |