Example sentences of "so [adv] as to make " in BNC.

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1 But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless .
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 And Glasgow City Council even went so far as to make the rave an official 1990 European City of Culture happening .
4 For another , Gombrich was unfailingly courteous and informative , without , however , going so far as to make his interviewer sound good .
5 By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible .
6 America solves this by recycling old material , chemically extracting impurities , occasionally going so far as to make ‘ ivory ’ plutonium , almost pure Pu .
7 She was n't going so far as to make protestations of delight in Betty 's company .
8 In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable .
9 She could describe weather conditions so realistically as to make her audience shiver or sweat , and children would find themselves taking off and putting on a garment in mid-tale .
10 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 .
11 And if she did n't rush , how come she fell so heavily as to make that sort of wound ?
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