Example sentences of "so bold [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , if pain remains , who would be so bold as to decide when the patient 's limit of tolerance has been reached ? |
| 2 | A local priest was even so bold as to call the system ‘ a home-brew democracy … . |
| 3 | Now sir , he had continued acidly , gripping Mark by the ear , ‘ tell me , if I may be so bold as to ask , precisely what I have been talking about . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I notice , ’ he said in good English , ‘ that you have been so bold as to ask for food at this late hour . |
| 5 | He even made so bold as to ask about Maureen O'Duffy . |
| 6 | Patrick made so bold as to ask : ‘ Do you know if they 're coming from Ashford or Headquarters ? ’ |
| 7 | Even those committees so bold as to demand to see papers and witnesses are unlikely to receive the cooperation they require . |
| 8 | One reviewer of the present state of the debate ( J. L. Marx 1980 ) ably summarises all the points of failing in the collection of data and their interpretation , but makes so bold as to write : |
| 9 | 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 ’ . |
| 10 | Some people were so bold as to suggest that he had now lost his grip and was writing pretty fair garbage . |
| 11 | Almost certainly it would have been the executors , after consultation with the family , as not even a cabinet-maker used to the undertaking trade would have been so bold as to have proceeded with such an elaborate item without having first enquired of the executors . |
| 12 | What makes you so bold as to Come back ? ’ |