Example sentences of "[adv] so as not [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | I kept on taking shots anyway so as not to lose face . ’ |
| 4 | Add mustard sauce , season and bring to the boil very quickly so as not to overcook meat . |
| 5 | She had already begun , surreptitiously so as not to excite Araminta 's suspicions , to scan the advertisement columns of the Morning Post . |
| 6 | In the past , and particularly in the late 1960s , governments attempted to keep interest rates low so as not to discourage investment . |
| 7 | At the outset the ECSC tended to move cautiously so as not to jeopardise expansion of the European ideal by alienating public opinion . |
| 8 | In the spot-light of an Anglepoise lamp which crouched on a chair like a big , black praying mantis , Finn worked quietly so as not to disturb Francie . |