Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | In all cases , however , the broken ends of the DNA on either side of the initial cut are apparently sealed so as to form hairpins , as Martin Gellert ( NIH ) showed , before they are nicked to form the final joint ( a process reminiscent of the reaction mechanism employed by topisomerases ) . |
2 | Questions should be open ended so as to get the candidate talking . |
3 | We are , therefore , anxious that he should not be thrown away in some other role and I hope that any plan he has made will be carefully examined so as to ensure that as far as possible he does not do something foolhardy . |
4 | The cross-rails are then rotated so as to tip the samples into the resin pots . |
5 | Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media . |
6 | Newsletters were circulated giving details of campaigns , and some of these , such as those sent by Bartholomew Burghersh to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1346 , were carefully phrased so as to generate public support for the invasion of Normandy . |
7 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
8 | It is generally accepted now that to speak of self-sufficiency in the face of such quantities of material is absurd . |
9 | This is not interpreted so as to compel a solicitor in overseas practice to maintain cover in excess of the current levels prescribed by the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules , though local requirements may have that result . |
10 | One of the key differences between this type of play and educational drama is that the latter is specifically structured so as to create learning opportunities . |
11 | Downstairs the bar 's lay-out has been cleverly designed so as to lend a feeling of space without losing a certain cosiness . |
12 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
13 | It was also true that the renewed Triple Alliance of the same year was soon buttressed so as to isolate France and Russia still more . |
14 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
15 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
16 | Indeed , as Sutherland and Mackintosh ( 1971 ) have pointed out , Siegels 's training apparatus was specifically arranged so as to ensure that the rats would adopt response strategies of the sort they did . |