Example sentences of "are so [adj] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those that are so general as to encompass many alternative learning paths are at the mercy of the pragmatic needs and preferences of SAT developers and the uncertainties of interpretation by teachers during classroom assessment . |
| 2 | It can not be the cheap medals and worthless trophies they hope to accumulate and the chances of making big money are so tiny as to make it untenable as a career . |
| 3 | In fact , benefits are so low as to make it difficult for a woman and her children to live on them , which puts pressure on her to find another male supporter . |
| 4 | Only about a third of the members are so awful as to be frightening . |
| 5 | I AM reluctant to believe that the British people are so stupid as to return anyone but nice Mr Major at tomorrow 's election . |
| 6 | The Standards and Guidance Committee is satisfied that the professions listed below are so regulated as to make it appropriate for solicitors to enter into MNPs with members of those professions , and for members of those professions to be officers of recognised bodies , in accordance with Schedule 14 paragraph 2(2) of the Courts and Legal Services Act 1990 . |
| 7 | Merton 's proposals for the sociology of science are so limited as to be unrecognizable in terms of Mannheim 's formulation of the sociology of knowledge . |
| 8 | Conversely , there are many , so-called , all-inclusive communication models which are so grotesque as to be of little use to anyone . |
| 9 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 10 | The EC defines people in poverty as those whose ‘ resources are so small as to exclude them from the minimum acceptable way of life of the member state in which they live ’ . |
| 11 | In other words , if the destructive forces operating on the bone assemblages are so great as to destroy some of the mandibles and maxillae , but not great enough to destroy the teeth , the ensuing sample can be expected to contain an excess of isolated teeth over the numbers expected from the numbers of jaws . |
| 12 | If there are signs of an economic upturn ‘ they are so faint as to be virtually invisible ’ , Sir Denys Henderson , chairman of ICI , said recently . |
| 13 | They are therefore viewed as costs that can not be justifiably carried forward to future periods because they do not represent future benefits or the future benefits are so uncertain as to defy measurement . |
| 14 | For every long contract to which it becomes party there is a matching short , for every dispute with a seller ( though disputes are so rare as virtually never to occur ) there will be an equal dispute with a buyer , and for every case of force majeure in delivery there will be an invoicing back from buyer to LCH and from LCH to seller . |
| 15 | They are so useful as low-fat sources of protein ( and other nutrients too ) that they are an important part of any food regime , including diets to reduce weight . |
| 16 | In addition , the spurs between the meanders preserve the general height of the plateau surface away from the river , except where they are so narrow as to be subject to general lowering by the formation of the slopes on either side . |
| 17 | If the regulations are so framed as to give the directors an unfettered discretion the court will interfere with it only on proof of bad faith and since the directors will not be bound to disclose either their grounds or their reasons , the difficulty of discharging the onus of proof is especially great . |
| 18 | For example , the requirements for keyboard operating pressure are so broad as to be meaningless . |
| 19 | Indeed , several are at the other extreme and are so hardy as to be used for screening and protection in exposed positions . |
| 20 | The winters there are long , hard and cruel ; two-thirds of the entire territory are grounded on ‘ permafrost ’ — permanently frozen earth , in many areas over one kilometre deep ; eastern Siberia contains the northern hemisphere 's ‘ pole of cold ’ , at Oimyakon , several degrees south of the Arctic Circle where temperatures in this inhabited settlement sometimes sink to — 70°C ; major rivers , seas and ports are frozen solid for most of the year , and growing conditions are so disadvantageous as to create one of the most fragile ecological systems in the world . |
| 21 | These interpretations have met some opposition on two main counts : very few of the presumed terraces have beach material on them and they are so fragmentary as to rouse the criticism that their interpretation is at times subjective rather than objective . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the figures involved are so astronomic as to be literally incomprehensible . |
| 23 | The room itself and all its fixtures and fittings are so filthy as to be almost picturesque . |
| 24 | Let us discuss what his ransom should be , since you are so generous as to entertain the possibility , and I will get for you full assurance that he shall be restrained from ever infringing your territory or your person again . |
| 25 | All that I can say is that the actions of Councillor Bookbinder are so incredible as to defy belief . |
| 26 | In contrast , amounts of methylated oligonucleotide in lane 3 are so large as to cause an extended area of blurred , saturated blackening of the film . |
| 27 | As we have shown in employment , housing allocation and the police force , discriminatory attitudes and practices are so pervasive as to be part of the everyday , routine culture of the organizations concerned . |
| 28 | Historical analysis suggests that the argument that the perspectives of dominant groups are so pervasive as to permit no alternative or popular forms of representation is untenable ( Abercrombie , Hill and Turner 1980 ) . |
| 29 | Almost every eventuality has been foreseen , but this has necessitated a complicated set of forms which , although simple in principle , are so detailed as to be regarded by many as impractical . |
| 30 | Environmental uncertainties for a corporation are so numerous as to defy classification , but none the less , there are five important sources of problems which potentially interfere with a corporation 's ability to achieve its goal(s) easily without bending , evading , or breaking legal regulations . |