Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The water molecules were spread widely so as to react with the plasma effectively reducing the plasma density through a process beginning with ion-exchanges .
2 The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade .
3 Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation .
4 They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor .
5 The recombinant protein was phosphorylated extremely inefficiently as compared to the c-Jun bZIP region ( the exposure time in Figure 1C is over 20-fold longer than in Figure 1B ) .
6 The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise .
7 If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out .
8 It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing .
9 However , as the results of the first inspections started to come in the seriousness of the problem was realised and the US authorities eventually went so far as to call for the use of specially made ultrasonic probes for detecting cracks round the fastener holes .
10 In practice the risk of default of non repayment is nil so far as lending to the government is concerned .
11 North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras .
12 The writer Valentin Rasputin , reflecting some of these concerns , went so far as to complain at the Congress of People 's Deputies in 1989 of ‘ Russophobia ’ on the part of other nationalities .
13 The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned .
14 At the lowest level in the TNC hierarchy , the operatives , there is clearly a reputational element at work , in so far as working for a company that has an international name appears to mean something positive for most people .
15 Peel reckoned with the prospect of violent conflict between the Government and the trade unions ; and went so far as to enquire into the practicability of organizing the middle classes against them .
16 He went so far as to bang on the door of Evert 's home in an effort to see Steffi .
17 Shadow lace is formed by knitting every needle on bed 1 , and knitting only certain needles on bed 2 and transferring all or some of the stitches from bed 2 to bed 1 every so often as required by the design .
18 The trading position of the British economy is one crucial factor here , not only as expressed in the ex post trade balance but also in the constraint posed on expansionary demand management .
19 It is part of the job ( perhaps the main part ) to introduce the principal terms and to convey some sense of what they mean : not only as defined in a dictionary , but also the connotations , the extra shades of meaning appended to words by the people who use them .
20 If , instead of acting physically , the adult names the object — ‘ dolly ’ — the child is likely to interpret the vocalisation not only as referring to the object , but as a description of the ‘ doll ’ as an entity ( Ninio and Bruner 1978 ) .
21 In fact the layers are stacked vertically not horizontally as shown in the drawing — the horizontal position was chosen to suggest that the layers were still " supporting the front-line units .
22 A user may point out that an attribute is missing from an entity , or that a relationship between entities is one-to-many and not one-to-one as implied by the entity-relationship diagram .
23 At the halfway stage in the backswing , the left wrist should be facing straight outwards as shown in the main illustration above .
24 Single shots are worked out exactly as described in the Warhammer rulebook ( see p79 ) , but the rules are repeated below for your convenience .
25 The early months were marred by the failure of the economy to pick up as quickly as expected after the election .
26 France , Europe 's biggest agricultural producer , has opposed efforts to cut farm subsidies as deeply as demanded by the US .
27 We have , therefore , to consider why marriages effectively end , as well as why couples will go as far as to go to the courts to legally separate , and what social factors underlie the responses to changes in legislation .
28 I thought I was quite a reasonable driver , I got as far as running at the front in World Sports Car Championships erm finished on the podium several times in International Formula Three erm
29 An application for a property adjustment order is required to identify the land , specify whether the property concerned is registered or unregistered ( and , if the former , its title number ) , and give particulars ( as far as known to the applicant ) of the mortgage ( for example the mortgage account number and the full names of the mortgagor(s) ) ( Family Proceedings Rules 1991 ( SI No 1247 ) r2.59(2) ) .
30 But I do not believe that one goes as far as going to the figure that the County Council is proposing .
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