Example sentences of "so [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | To partake in that utterance must demand superhuman courage , courage from the divine , an ability to think so intensely as to die even from pure thought — to die a death ordained , not for self-glorification , a significant and saving death . |
| 2 | We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’ |
| 3 | If you had the money and the leisure in Brazil , and Emerson 's family gave him both — though not so lavishly as , say , Piquet 's family — motor racing was something perfectly natural . |
| 4 | A social work career was developed in connection with this work , but not so effectively as was the case in the children 's departments . |
| 5 | Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation . |
| 6 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 7 | This has reversed the rule in Harbutts Plasticine Ltd v Wayne Tank and Pump Co Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 QB 447 , but it has not affected the rule in the Suisse Atlantique case [ 1967 ] 1 AC 61 that exemption clauses can not be construed to apply to fundamental breach unless clearly stated to do so ( See also the Securicor case mentioned above , where an exclusion clause was found to be drafted so widely as to exclude liability for a wilful default which was also a fundamental breach of the contract . ) |
| 8 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |
| 9 | However , it may also be that if the clause is drawn so widely as to be capable of applying in unreasonable circumstances , or if it purports to exclude a liability which can not be excluded under the Act , the court may find it unreasonable to apply it to other circumstances ( see Walker v Boyle [ 1982 ] 1 All ER 634 ) . |
| 10 | Few of these , from the vantage point of 1990 , flourished as corporations so successfully as the BBC , which gained a reputation as one of the great creations of social and cultural policy in the twentieth century . |
| 11 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 12 | ‘ Anyway , the Queen of the Night , always called your mother that , you know , because of her amazing devotion to sleep , which she seemed to prefer to almost any other activity , in particular to that which I believe today 's lovers refer to so elegantly as ‘ boffing ’ or ‘ shafting ’ … . |
| 13 | Internal security police still dog real or imagined opponents , though not so blatantly as last year . |
| 14 | How sad to see our old people not just robbed but beaten up so badly as well . |
| 15 | In present everyday usage the phrase could be understood to mean quite simply that capital , or more precisely , the people disposing of it , treats labour , or more precisely , the people employed , so badly as to create resentment . |
| 16 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 17 | Seldom before have England needed him so badly as they go into tomorrow 's third Test in Bombay already beaten 2-0 in the series by India . |
| 18 | Emily sighed heavily , no more would she sit beneath those trees reading or idling away her days so carelessly as she had done , was it only a few short weeks ago ? |
| 19 | He has had over a dozen matches and scored only two goals , so perhaps as Joo said its time for the subs bench ( remember Le Tissier on sunday ) . |
| 20 | Calls ‘ teu ’ , ‘ teeoo ’ , ‘ chik ’ , etc. not so loud as other shanks , also a liquid twittering trill . |
| 21 | Voice not so loud as Great Spotted . |
| 22 | Drums fairly often in spring , not so loud as Great Spotted , but lasting longer , two seconds , with 10–30 blows . |
| 23 | Granpa clapped so loud as I returned to my place that some of the mums looked round and smiled , which made the old fellow even more determined to see that I stayed on at school until I was fourteen . |
| 24 | He certainly has a vision for the Burmese farmer , and I have never liked him so much as I did last night as we sat talking together under the stars . |
| 25 | You do n't sleep so much as you get older . |
| 26 | It is an institution which until recently my fellow countrymen valued so highly as willingly to pay any price needful for its preservation . |
| 27 | Since so many of us had made love to either O or to Boy we felt that by comparing notes we knew a great deal about how they behaved when making love , and so when we saw them reappear so obviously as lovers we were pleased to see that our predictions had been correct . |
| 28 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 29 | I do understand that the burden of an elderly , dependent relative , even of one so sprightly as your mother , can be great . |
| 30 | The limitations on the power of these liberal groups within protestant loyalism are demonstrated by the fact that they have only been allowed to function among the leadership of the people so long as they obeyed the basic tenets and values common to the alliance as a whole . |