Example sentences of "so [adv] [subord] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 The later Mariner 10 probe , launched in 1974 , confirmed that the dense sulphuric clouds moved across the sky so rapidly as to create violent storms at the surface .
2 Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject .
3 Quite often curricular problems were related to inadequacies in materials and some advisers went so far as to suggest radical changes in resourcing and accommodation .
4 He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage and annually-elected parliaments .
5 Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays .
6 If it did , Nuttall and McCormick imply that the costs would rise so substantially as to become prohibitive .
7 ‘ Those notices , ’ announced Gus clearly to the general air , but not so loudly as to reach unauthorised ears , ‘ mean exactly what they say .
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