Example sentences of "[adj] [adv] [subord] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are good reasons why I prefer to purse-net whenever possible rather than kill the bolting rabbits with a shotgun . |
| 2 | ‘ Maybe we should breed men an inch high so as to live a million years . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 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 | This inclination to celebrate the established rather than unearth the unknown is also echoed by many of the specialist titles . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Like many Sicilian buildings the windows are very small so as to exclude the hot sunshine ( 215 ) . |
| 8 | 2 Locational decisions are taken in general so as to minimise the frictional effects of distance . |
| 9 | The proceedings featured acrimonious debate , but the congress ended with the endorsement of a reformist manifesto , albeit affirming that the party would remain Marxist rather than go the social democratic way of other former ruling East European communist parties as they prepared , like the BCP , to compete in free elections . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The boots were very comfortable from new even when wearing a single pair of walking socks . |