Example sentences of "[noun] so as [adv] to miss " in BNC.
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1 | She drove slowly in Conterchi so as not to miss the turning and Italians hooted at her or raised their fingers in gestures she knew to be obscene . |
2 | The temperature falls and Nathan pulls the nylon sledge cover up over his head , peering out through a narrow slit so as not to miss anything . |
3 | There are three distinct types of clinical challenge for which the polymerase chain reaction is indispensable : ( 1 ) Detecting vanishingly small amounts of DNA so as not to miss even the most cryptic infection and permit analysis of single cells or single sperm and of partially degraded samples . |
4 | She decided to sleep on the sofa so as not to miss anything . |
5 | I carefully examined every photograph in minute detail through a magnifying glass so as not to miss a thing . |