Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's very important to become quicker , smoother in your movement , to bend down low or to be able to jump up high in order for you to get this point of contact . |
| 2 | If appropriate provision for expulsion is essential , it is as well also to consider the eventuality of partners leaving in less contentious circumstances , if only to ensure ( as considered above ) that the firm 's finances are so arranged as to be able to cope with both expected and unexpected departures . |
| 3 | Similarly , overachieving can be an addiction if the achievement is to no purpose or gratification while at the same time the costs to other relationships may be so high as to be catastrophic . |
| 4 | When the original ingredients of a dish become obsolete or so debased as to be unrecognizable radical change is preferable to make-believe replacements . |
| 5 | Despite the three-hour length , the descent of Kathy Bates 's character into madness is so abrupt as to be risible . |
| 6 | So , word-play is found in many other kinds of discourse type , especially in Britain and British English , such as advertising , and headlinese : it is actually so prevalent as to be inescapable ( " It 's enough to make your kin scrawl " — Crayola ) . |
| 7 | Yes , but I think there 's no need to buy computers just to be clever or to be well ahead of your neighbours or your other business friends . |
| 8 | It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated . |
| 9 | In between , we say , we ‘ play it by ear ’ and what we listen for is the child 's own claim to have its decisions treated as authoritative and to be ready to bear the responsibility . |
| 10 | What I want , would like to see , and I think is in your interest and the public 's interest is actually to , to not just be responding but to be , to be reactive but to be pro-active , and to be going out onto the streets as it were . |
| 11 | A reviewer of a hangman program recently suggested that the detail was so gruesome as to be unsuitable for young children ! |
| 12 | In Sargent [ 1990 ] The Guardian , 3 July , Boreham J at Leeds Crown Court is reported as saying : " You were so negligent as to be reckless as to this woman 's welfare " , by pumping so much oxygen into her during an operation that she swelled up like a Michelin man . |
| 13 | He was so ordinary as to be extraordinary , so obscure that only stealth could be his calling . |
| 14 | As with inspection , the cleaner should be so positioned as to be able to see all areas of the work even if it means squatting , kneeling or lying down . |
| 15 | He did wish that custom and her total generosity had not made everything so easy as to be negligible . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I am delighted to be asked to deliver Lynda 's speech to such a large body of people committed to helping the disadvantaged and to be able to say a few words about how government is meeting the challenges that it faces in the developing world . |
| 18 | Honourable but brief mentions must also go to Annie Lennox and Sinead O'Connor , for their uncompromising attitudes , bravery , outspokenness , passionate commitment to their music and because they prove it 's OK to be strong and to be vulnerable . |
| 19 | It was nasty , brutish and to be frank frightening as they tried to make sure they won the vote over Maastricht . |
| 20 | This will depend on the size of the bird — you want it to be comfortable and to be able to move its legs , but you also want to keep an untrained bird under firm control . |
| 21 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland asserts , that , ‘ to be dependent is to face the danger of being less than fully human because to be dependent is to live with the prospect of having our bodies cared for but our personal and social lives neglected or even dismissed as irrelevant . ’ |
| 22 | Give yourself time to settle down with a new program before you draw the conclusion that it is so buggy as to be unusable . |
| 23 | Her few originalities are so naive as to be laughable ( such as her picture of the persons of the Trinity sitting on different-coloured cushions ) or so deranged as to be pitiable . |
| 24 | If the decision is so brief as to be inadequate , this may provide grounds for an appeal to the Commissioners , since it will amount to an error of law . |
| 25 | Behind them she could work with a charm and singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes . |
| 26 | Behind them she could work with a charm and a singleness of attention that became so smooth as to be chilling , except for the friendliness of her large grey eyes ’ . |
| 27 | Her few originalities are so naive as to be laughable ( such as her picture of the persons of the Trinity sitting on different-coloured cushions ) or so deranged as to be pitiable . |
| 28 | I have sat around tables with senior male television executives and listened to them on the one hand bemoan the lack of good women presenters and on the other make suggestions of possible women candidates so inappropriate as to be laughable . |
| 29 | One is not normally so lucky as to be able to link a coinage so specifically to a historical event or particular date and usually more indirect methods must be used . |
| 30 | It is also very much of an ideal size — not so large as to be overwhelming , yet large enough to sustain a wide variety of cultural enjoyment in the Arts , Music and Drama . |