Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [to-vb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I 've managed to scan it in , but the resolution is so low as to make it unread- able . |
| 3 | The result has been that in some cases the insurance premiums which manufacturers have to pay to protect themselves are so high as to make it no longer profitable for them to remain in business . |
| 4 | Soviet aid was never intended in any case to equip the Republic for victory , so much as to enable it to resist until the Spanish war became part of a more general conflict in which Britain and France would join the Soviet Union in fighting European fascism . |
| 5 | If , however , such a revaluation were required , say , 20 years hence , the same house in band D would probably remain a band D house , provided that its relative position within the range of property values had not changed so much as to take it outwith the new parameters for that band . |
| 6 | Again , we see the need for flexibility in the control structure , with each component being given enough free rein to contribute fully , but not so much as to force it to take decisions for which it , on its own , has insufficient evidence . |
| 7 | To suggest that such a blank-filling exercise constitutes communicative behaviour is to generalize the concept so much as to make it almost meaningless . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | the semantic net is so large that to traverse it by hand would be laborious , and |
| 10 | The class must consist of persons whose rights are not so dissimilar as to make it impossible for them to consult together with a view to their common interest ( Sovereign Life Assurance Co v Dunn [ 1892 ] 2 QB 573 ) . |
| 11 | As part of the registration process the Law Society must satisfy itself that the legal profession of which the applicant is a member is one which is so regulated as to make it appropriate : — |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This system was usually applied where the grade of ore was so poor as to preclude it being worked by the tribute system . |
| 14 | Some of the groups found that the sound quality was so poor as to make it difficult to listen to the recordings . |
| 15 | The Speaker of the House of Representatives , Thomas S. Foley ( Dem. , Washington ) , stated his opposition to any amendment of the Bill of Rights , however , arguing that the issue of flag burning was not so important as to make it " worth tampering with the most important repository of personal liberty that any country has ever established in its history " . |
| 16 | Ambleside , and , if Mrs. Marshall be not yet arrived at Headingley , I beg you will be so kind as to open it , and look over the Books . |
| 17 | I 'd like to think that it was remorse that made you come sobbing into Adam 's arms that way , but I 'm not so naïve as to believe it . |
| 18 | If they 'd had a key , they would n't have been so careless as to leave it open , would they ? ’ |
| 19 | The subjective conviction of heightened awareness is so treacherous that to exempt it from the critical tests of reason is to put oneself at the mercy of chance . |
| 20 | For several hundred years , the ‘ Debatable Land ’ was largely uninhabited and to keep it that way , in 1551 , a proclamation was issued jointly by the two nations , to the effect that : ‘ All Englishmen and Scottishmen after this proclamation is made are , and shall be , free to rob , burn , spoil , slay , murder and destroy , all and every such person or persons , their bodies , buildings , goods and cattle as do remain or shall inhabit upon any part of the said debatable land . |
| 21 | The ergonomist has to believe that work is a good thing and that to conduct it efficiently is always better than to conduct it inefficiently . |
| 22 | What could be more arrogant than to deny it to them ? ’ |
| 23 | It is very large and to reach it takes three days and nights . |
| 24 | But to call it ‘ presidential ’ is both to go too far and to dignify it . |