Example sentences of "so [adv] [vb pp] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem is that our managerial hierarchies are so badly designed as to defeat the best efforts even of psychologically insightful individuals . |
| 2 | The last and incomplete letter from Miller in the Darlington collection , dated 10 November 1769 , carried a wish for plants from Bartram 's garden , because he believed there to be new genera amongst them , but specimens had been ‘ so much compressed as to render the distinguishing characters very doubtful ’ . |
| 3 | At this stage it is so far extended as to receive a supply of sand from the original barchan even during the prevailing wind , X. Thus it will continue to grow both during the prevailing wind , X , and the strong wind , Y , with slip faces developed on the side away from the strong wind . |
| 4 | Secondly , the system circumscribed professional activity , constrained initiative , and demanded acquiescence in a curriculum that was so narrowly conceived as to represent a parody of education . |
| 5 | The connectives may be separate and distinct throughout the body as in Machilis and Corydalis , or in the thorax only as in the Orthoptera , Coleoptera and many Lepidopteran larvae , but usually they are so closely approximated as to form a single longitudinal cord . |
| 6 | It is only if the existing and permitted uses of the land are so seriously affected as to render the land incapable of reasonably beneficial use that the owner can take advantage of the purchase notice procedure . |