Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [adv] as [to-vb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 4 | In Filliter v. Phippard the word ‘ accidentally ’ was interpreted restrictively so as to cover only ‘ a fire produced by mere chance or incapable of being traced to any cause . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ We even went so far as to put together a group and do some touring ; we did a club tour of the States and a mini-tour in Japan , too . |
| 6 | Through some of his paintings of 1912 Picasso went so far as to say candidly to the spectator , ‘ j'aime Eva ’ ; at the same time he wrote to Kahnweiler of Eva , ‘ I love her very much and I shall write it on my paintings . ’ |
| 7 | Leaving no stone unturned for its Destiny launch , the telephone company offshoot went so far as to score still another first , announcing SVR4.2 simultaneously in Europe , the Far East , the US and Russia , reportedly at a Unix user group meeting , facilitated by the famed Esther Dyson . |
| 8 | Charles Rycroft , an eminent contemporary British psychoanalyst , has gone so far as to reject entirely the Freudian theory of the origin and function of dreaming . |
| 9 | The list is endless and I would go as far as to say virtually every ‘ Gold Seal ’ is worth its weight in gold . |
| 10 | 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 . |