Example sentences of "[verb] so [adv] as to make " in BNC.
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| 1 | As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible . |
| 2 | The requirement against memory ‘ bundling ’ had been important when the EC first looked at the complaints back in 1977 ; but in the period 1977–84 memory prices dropped so steeply as to make the point relatively trivial . |
| 3 | For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good . |
| 4 | America solves this by recycling old material , chemically extracting impurities , occasionally going so far as to make ‘ ivory ’ plutonium , almost pure Pu . |
| 5 | She was n't going so far as to make protestations of delight in Betty 's company . |
| 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 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 8 | And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening . |
| 9 | And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ? |