Example sentences of "[adv] so as " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will look elegant in black , and she 'll cry delicately so as not to mar the whiteness of her skin , and dab her nose with a lace-edged handkerchief , and wear Mother 's jet brooch , and all the customers will sigh and say how sad it is , and young men will want to comfort and console her , and they will , oh yes , because she did n't really love him . |
| 2 | Sam 's porridge bowl was fuller than usual — Ma Bombie 's hand being even more unsteady than normal — so he was walking very slowly so as not to spill any . |
| 3 | At the end of the impregnation period , care should be taken to release the vacuum slowly so as not to cause boiling . |
| 4 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 5 | What an ordinary individual needs is to have a slice of his savings invested in the company he works for , and the rest spread widely so as to spread his risk , through unit trusts ( mutual funds ) , life-insurance policies or pension funds . |
| 6 | The water molecules were spread widely so as to react with the plasma effectively reducing the plasma density through a process beginning with ion-exchanges . |
| 7 | Right so as soon as you see that you think , |
| 8 | Er right so as I say it 's a lighthearted approach and on christian name terms and with that in mind would you detach one of these and just stick your name on so that at least if you do n't know then at some stage during the course you stand a good chance of getting to know each other because again the essence of this course is informality and talking . |
| 9 | Right so as I said , Point taken but I 'd like people to go away and read it . |
| 10 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 11 | Blind with rage : I know why they say blind — I could n't see him , I could n't see anything — I did n't think what to say , I was just saying it , shouting it , fury pouring out of me like hot tar — my hands were on my hips and clinging on so as to stop myself tearing his straggly hair out , gouging his eyes out , strangling him till his voice went gurgle-croak and his body went limp . |
| 12 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 13 | By all means use them when they are needed or appropriate , but there is no call to construct a headline especially so as to include one or more of them . |
| 14 | The much publicised schism between Adobe and Apple followed by the latter 's siding with Microsoft — a company it was then attacking in the courts — all seems a little strange , especially so as there is no actual product involved , only a ‘ standard ’ . |
| 15 | The main flambeaux along the deck all died out suddenly so as not to backlight the fighting machines . |
| 16 | They were grand boys and so courageous … maybe too much so as it turned out . |
| 17 | These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property . |
| 18 | In this more temperate climate , we can see that rock 's estate is a grand one , and it 's tempting to tramp its grounds — necessary , perhaps , if only so as to have somewhere to ‘ go ’ . |
| 19 | On the one hand , Jaq must seem capable of irony and flexible tolerance — perhaps only so as to spring a trap . |
| 20 | Trumpets wailed , acrobats somersaulted , torn beasts died ; some bejewelled ladies blew kisses , perhaps only so as to kindle the jealousy of rival ladies or of their own lords . |
| 21 | Take the example of St-Germain-des-Prés on the west bank of the Seine at Paris : here the landlord , the monastic community , organised peasant transport services not only so as to ensure the abbey 's food supply but to permit the sale of surplus wine and corn . |
| 22 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 23 | Narrowly dyadic relationships of this kind show no tendency to proliferate outwards so as to form a wider network , and , since they are usually short-lived , anthropologists have not often given them much attention . |
| 24 | This follows the ethic pursued in the conversion of similarly old city-centre premises in New York of leaving exteriors more or less alone so as not to attract attention . |
| 25 | There is no deck chair for me so I sit on the lawn at Ma 's feet and draw some barley water up the straw , gently so as not to disturb Pa who is reading . |
| 26 | When you were here before I was only a schoolboy and er just er old enough to know everything that was going on , as you might say , but young enough so as I did n't get too involved . |
| 27 | She hurried forward with her head down so as not to see the diesel-and-hemp-smelling boathouse where she and Francis had once kissed and kissed ; or the two canvas shoes pushed on dock posts to dry and which she was certain had belonged to Francis . |
| 28 | In Littlewoods Organisation Ltd v Harris Lord Denning MR said that by construing a restriction according to the object and intent rule the courts refuse to hold a covenant bad merely because of unskilful drafting and will cut it down so as to reveal its essential reasonableness . |
| 29 | Mark them down with your knife down the back down here , you know , right down so as you had a mark . |
| 30 | Robyn felt a small curl of satisfaction and proceeded to descend the staircase at an even slower pace than before , treading gingerly so as not to exacerbate the dreadful pounding in her head . |