Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] so as " in BNC.
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1 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
2 | In contrast , in Crowhurst v. Amersham Burial Board , the defendants planted on their land a yew tree which grew so as to project over onto the land of the plaintiff on which cattle were pastured . |
3 | But it is also true that he describes this final state as one illumined so as " forto se by vnderstondyng whilk is god , and also gostly thynges with a soft swete brennand loue in hym " ( 8.282b. – 82 ) ; and in Mixed Life Rachel is also defined as " of bigynnynge is God , and bitokene liyf contemplatif " ( 30 – 1.342 – 3 ) . |
4 | To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect . |
5 | In 1896 it had been well over half a century since Parliament had made specific grants to build parish churches and if Church schools got grants they did so as voluntary , not as Church schools : Roman Catholic , Methodist and ‘ British ’ schools were equally entitled to the grants . |