Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] as [verb] " 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 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 3 | ‘ Wind-chill factors ’ , calculated originally in experiments involving heat losses from dry uninsulated surfaces ( Siple and Passel , 1945 ) , are often represented either as reduced temperatures or as additional heat lost per unit of time . |
| 4 | Representative government , parties and elections are now seen increasingly as providing an essential framework but as inadequate by themselves to establish a democratic society in the more radical sense of government by the people . |
| 5 | Questions should be open ended so as to get the candidate talking . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The cross-rails are then rotated so as to tip the samples into the resin pots . |
| 8 | Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Advanced manufacturing technology is widely put forward as holding out the opportunity to change the competitiveness of businesses . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Kaunda is now reported here as talking of Rhodesia as becoming another Phnom Penh ( or however you spell it ) , or Saigon . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Downstairs the bar 's lay-out has been cleverly designed so as to lend a feeling of space without losing a certain cosiness . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It was held that the clause did not protect the owners against liability for negligence : they could be liable either strictly , for failing to supply a cycle fit for its purpose , or in negligence ; it was therefore construed only as covering the strict liability . |
| 21 | The work was never made quite as planned , but several aspects of it occur in the ballet he made in Israel many years later , and some in works for Sadler 's Wells in the fifties . |
| 22 | 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 . |