Example sentences of "be [adv] [adj] as [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as the rift with the Musicians Union is concerned if they are so shortsighted as to condemn and ban everything that has the tag ‘ South African ’ , without even trying to understand , I do n't see much point in having anything to do with them . |
| 2 | Since Hubel and Wiesel began publishing their work in the late 1950s , there has been an increasing appreciation of the way in which nervous systems are so structured as to ensure that certain events of special importance to the organism have an increased likelihood of triggering activity in the relevant places . |
| 3 | Given the brief span of their acquaintance , the even briefer time they had actually spent together , how could he have been so presumptuous as to imagine that she would wish to fly out and join him at the Plaza ? |
| 4 | Morrissey should not be so arrogant as to think that he can , expecting no recrimination or criticism , use racist imagery without anything but the most ambiguous of reasons . |
| 5 | My last migraine of any consequence was over four months ago , but I would not be so brash as to say that I have been cured . |
| 6 | We would not be so brave as to suggest that ‘ anyone ’ can build their own computer . |
| 7 | According to Henderson ( 1979 ) , ‘ no school can reasonably be so bold as to suggest that it has nothing to learn from other schools , from professional teacher-trainers or from educational scholarship and research ’ . |
| 8 | scrap through the remains of erm and got the wire wool and got them down and washed them , what I would like today if you would be so kind as to assist when you 've finished your pottery is to re-label these , now some of you er , have already finished pottery and start straight away , those who only have the finishing touches to do , start half way through the lesson or whatever , but I do intend to give a demonstration now , so , could you gather all round |
| 9 | To those who see China in primarily economic terms , the ‘ golden goose ’ argument comes most easily : that its government would never be so foolish as to constrict or repress Hong Kong , the tiny territory which has proved such a powerful catalyst for the growth of its hinterland . |
| 10 | Sex should be as normal as easing or drinking . |
| 11 | The Lutheran scholar Robert Jenson chastises Christian feminists for being so foolish as to think that the term ‘ Father ’ is being used univocally ( having the same connotations ) when used of human fathers and of God ; as though to imply that there is sexuality in God . |
| 12 | Some people were so bold as to suggest that he had now lost his grip and was writing pretty fair garbage . |
| 13 | It rises with the tide , only no one 's so daft as to stay and see how high . |
| 14 | To say that a dog eats because it wants to is as uninformative as to say that dinosaurs got larger because they had an inner drive to do so . |
| 15 | A sequence and no dates is as useful as knowing that one site lies to the west of another without knowing how far . |
| 16 | Secular employment is as sanctified as preaching if it is done ‘ as unto the Lord ’ . |
| 17 | The significance of the allusion to Freud in this famous passage is to suggest that to conceive of the economic as operating in isolation is as illusory as to imagine that the ego can operate without the unconscious : they are both the reciprocal products of the other . |
| 18 | Estimating the extent of any benefit is as important as determining whether there is a benefit . |
| 19 | " The official resolution was so drafted as to assume that non-intervention could be made a reality , … |