Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] as [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Maybe we should breed men an inch high so as to live a million years . ’ |
2 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
3 | We can see therefore that in this model government debt is equivalent to a fall in T 1 accompanied by a rise in T 2 so as to leave the present value of lump-sum tax payments unchanged ( Diamond , 1973b , p. 222 , and Bierwag , Grove and Khang , 1969 ) . |
4 | In 1792 wages in Sheffield were said to be so high generally as to allow the leisure-preferring cutlers to live comfortably from working only three days a week . |
5 | We hope that you will build upon these so as to form a continuing association with your University . |
6 | As seen from the United States both Japan and western Europe welcomed the American deregulatory tide of 1975 onwards as offering a freer flow into the US market . |
7 | Erm so My Lords I am left in the slight dilemma that erm I 'm not er none of the amendments we 're discussing are absolutely ideal from my point of view and meet the three difficulties er which I have touched on and indeed the amendment to which I have put my name erm number eleven , would I think be better erm to have a minority of er er a minimum number of eighteen rather than sixteen so as to simplify the arithmetical processes of contemplated er a two-thirds majority , but of the er amendments that we are discussing er if the opinion of the House is to be sort , I myself would go along with Amendment five and the two other associated amendments with which the Noble Lord , Lord has submitted for consideration of the Committee . |
8 | Yalta was condemned by many afterwards as marking a Western betrayal of eastern Europe , as grave as Munich in 1938 : Roosevelt , in his eagerness to secure world peace , was duped , it was said , by Stalin . |
9 | Despite this , however , he was treated with some suspicion by Parliament , who restricted his ability to raise taxes to pay for army or navy forces , so he turned to Louis XIV of France , who secretly made funds available so as to improve the failing status of the Roman Catholic Church in England , where the Church of England virtually excluded all ‘ dissenters ’ , which included Roman Catholics . |
10 | Like many Sicilian buildings the windows are very small so as to exclude the hot sunshine ( 215 ) . |
11 | 2 Locational decisions are taken in general so as to minimise the frictional effects of distance . |
12 | At first they seemed so close together as to form an impassable barrier , but as they drew nearer it became clear that they were several yards apart . |