Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Morrow ( 1980:Part 4 ) takes the subordination of text to purpose and prediction so far as to use the questions to construct the text ( through a series of student activities like speed-reading of parts of the text , reordering , and blank-filling ) while the text itself is hidden away at the back of the book for consumption afterwards . |
| 2 | The German Idealist tradition was born out of the rejection of British empiricism and some political commentators have urged that the legacy of this can still be seen in the idea that ‘ the Germans have only really to desire change in order to achieve basic changes in their position , and that these changes would in consequence alter the European scene so radically as to produce the longed-for peace ’ . |
| 3 | Emily swallowed hard , how could she lower her pride so far as to approach the girl she had been so scornful of ? |
| 4 | People are becoming increasingly aware of the need to take more care of our surroundings , to use our natural resources more economically and to improve the quality of life . |
| 5 | ‘ It 's like a terrorist attack , you know , splashing around rifle fire and bazookas and even nerve gas indiscriminately so as to get the highest death toll in the shortest possible time . ’ |
| 6 | Who else in that distinguished gathering of philosophers , psychologists , veterinary professors and ethologists would desert their dignity so far as to imitate an animal ? |
| 7 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 8 | Thirdly , it seems that both groups of critics would want to see greater support given to natural families , in general , to help them to care for their children more effectively and to prevent the need for substitute care arising . |
| 9 | In such cases the court should not apply the strict construction so far as to make the whole clause void or invalid or unenforceable . |