Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] [conj] [to-vb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | We would not be so brave as to suggest that ‘ anyone ’ can build their own computer . |
| 4 | This process will continue until a price level is reached which is so low as to make so high as to ensure that the effective labour demand function eventually coincides with the notional labour demand function . |
| 5 | Having worked on interview panels with the now defunct ILEA I can say that the object has not been to block the drama school selection so much as to see that the grant is well justified . |
| 6 | He was not so simple as to believe that the danger would be over when Aldhelm went home frustrated , but what followed he would have to encounter and parry when it came . |
| 7 | Only as the car was crunching softly to a halt in the gravel of the yard did Charlotte ask suddenly , but in a tone so subdued as to suggest that she had been contemplating the question for some time , and refrained from asking it only for fear of the answer : |
| 8 | " The official resolution was so drafted as to assume that non-intervention could be made a reality , … |
| 9 | Yet the Profitboss is not so naive as to believe that people do not occasionally betray trust , do not occasionally fiddle their expenses , do not occasionally get sloppy and hire unnecessary staff . |
| 10 | Of course , he is n't so naive as to suggest that he has some privileged hot-line to the 16th and 17th centuries . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | None is , nor can be , so structured as to ensure that the individual is not treated as a thing , as a commodity for use in the process of production or provision . |
| 13 | Hooliganism involving Dutch supporters has become so frequent as to suggest that another blanket ban of a nation 's clubs might be necessary . |
| 14 | This projection of a caring service in which adults helped children to master the skills necessary to live in a society growing ever more complex , encouraged teacher-trainers in the immediate post-war years to be somewhat self-indulgent and to suggest that teachers were members of a profession . |
| 15 | 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 ’ . |
| 16 | Some people were so bold as to suggest that he had now lost his grip and was writing pretty fair garbage . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | So that you have your they 're not so daft as to know that two people who are going to come and live even if Richard 's away half the time . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ Or are you still so naïve as to believe that he just wanted a comforting kiss and a cuddle ? ’ |
| 21 | Most often , the car parks , protecting your customer 's property , offering him or her protection ; the fire exits ( not to stop people getting in because they are already alarmed but to check that they are not obstructed ) ; the reception or foyer and other public areas so that management can see which parts of the hotel are being used by guests and roughly by how many , which is very useful if there is an emergency and you have to clear the building ; and finally as a good old-fashioned deterrent and for detection . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He gave her a cynical look , as much as to say that he only half believed her . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In spite of such an unexpected result , it is important to see that the general pattern is very regular and to remember that , as far as the volunteer is concerned , he gets up at the ‘ normal ’ time each ‘ morning ’ to be ready for a full day ahead of him . |