Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] [not/n't] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She will look elegant in black , and she 'll cry delicately so as not to mar the whiteness of her skin , and dab her nose with a lace-edged handkerchief , and wear Mother 's jet brooch , and all the customers will sigh and say how sad it is , and young men will want to comfort and console her , and they will , oh yes , because she did n't really love him . |
| 2 | Sam 's porridge bowl was fuller than usual — Ma Bombie 's hand being even more unsteady than normal — so he was walking very slowly so as not to spill any . |
| 3 | At the end of the impregnation period , care should be taken to release the vacuum slowly so as not to cause boiling . |
| 4 | The main flambeaux along the deck all died out suddenly so as not to backlight the fighting machines . |
| 5 | She had said he must marry only so as not to disappoint his mother ; but should he come to her one day and say he was about to marry someone , that would assuredly beat her into the ground . |
| 6 | This follows the ethic pursued in the conversion of similarly old city-centre premises in New York of leaving exteriors more or less alone so as not to attract attention . |
| 7 | There is no deck chair for me so I sit on the lawn at Ma 's feet and draw some barley water up the straw , gently so as not to disturb Pa who is reading . |
| 8 | She hurried forward with her head down so as not to see the diesel-and-hemp-smelling boathouse where she and Francis had once kissed and kissed ; or the two canvas shoes pushed on dock posts to dry and which she was certain had belonged to Francis . |
| 9 | Robyn felt a small curl of satisfaction and proceeded to descend the staircase at an even slower pace than before , treading gingerly so as not to exacerbate the dreadful pounding in her head . |
| 10 | His concern in this text seems to be to explain which legal relationships are like sale : his list comprises receipt as a consequence of barter , of payment , of settlement ( in court ) , and of contractual promise ( so long as not gratuitous ) . |
| 11 | Titian has written over their heads Ex Praeterito Praesens Prudenter Agit Ni Futura Actione Deturpit ( ‘ From the [ example of ] the past the man of the present acts prudently so as not to imperil the future ’ ) . |
| 12 | In regard to smells resulting from the transportation of manure it seems to me that , irrespective of the methods employed , the necessary journeys would occur so infrequently as not to be unduly detrimental to the residential amenities which nearby residents in this rural community could reasonably be expected to enjoy . ’ |
| 13 | –here property has been settled on terms which provide for one or more beneficiaries to become entitled to an interest in possession in it on or before a specified age which does not exceed twenty-five but meantime no such interest in possession subsists and the income so far as not applied for maintenance education or benefit of any beneficiary is to be accumulated , neither a payment made out of the property nor the arising to a beneficiary of an interest in possession in it is to be treated as a chargeable transfer . |
| 14 | The excess of the cost of acquisition over the net assets attributed , so far as not previously written off , is written off to reserves . |
| 15 | erm So therefore , we 're embarking on a new area if you like , in so far as not just sponsorship , but erm willingness to participate in a friendly environment , and I would hope that we can be part of that . |
| 16 | The shotgun may kill the first but it will scare away most if not all of the others . |
| 17 | Her mother had taken her downstairs so as not to disturb the rest of the family . |
| 18 | I kept on taking shots anyway so as not to lose face . ’ |
| 19 | Hence there is room for competing middle-range theories , and not merely because not enough empirical testing has been done . |
| 20 | There are even moves to make commercial litigation more client-friendly , to hold on to the business that 's dribbling away southwards if not to attract more in . |
| 21 | The first essential is to check the clearance in the actual loft space to ensure that the ladder will fold away correctly when not in use . |
| 22 | But when it comes to diet , we are probably as badly off if not worse than people were in Hahnemann 's day . |
| 23 | When he came he had to pull away quickly so as not to spill a drop of his bodily fluids , like the instructions on the box of condoms said . |
| 24 | Add mustard sauce , season and bring to the boil very quickly so as not to overcook meat . |
| 25 | Carefully turning the mirror aside so as not to be trapped again , Mait examined the intricate network of rods . |
| 26 | She had already begun , surreptitiously so as not to excite Araminta 's suspicions , to scan the advertisement columns of the Morning Post . |
| 27 | As an owner will have been interested in keeping the value low so as not to pay a high export premium , the State will be ideally placed to acquire valuable works of art on the cheap . |
| 28 | In the past , and particularly in the late 1960s , governments attempted to keep interest rates low so as not to discourage investment . |
| 29 | He had actually been denounced to J. Edgar Hoover as ‘ more probably than not an agent of the Soviet Union . ’ |
| 30 | However , alterations were more often than not effected with some degree of sympathy for the existing fabric and atmosphere . |