Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [adv] " 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 | Right so as soon as you see that you think , |
| 5 | We knew each other before the Expo , though not quite so intimately as now . ’ |
| 6 | Other commentators depicted the Act less flatteringly as yet another example of ‘ dustbin legislation ’ . |
| 7 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 8 | How sad to see our old people not just robbed but beaten up so badly as well . |
| 9 | The main flambeaux along the deck all died out suddenly so as not to backlight the fighting machines . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It is an institution which until recently my fellow countrymen valued so highly as willingly to pay any price needful for its preservation . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ( Incidentally , most bureau will buy in typefaces for clients so long as either the client pays for it or there is going to be sufficient volume of work to justify it . ) |
| 16 | His letter says that : ‘ So long as neither the lives of American citizens nor our troops are subjected to immediate danger and the international economic embargo continues to exert substantial pressure against Iraq … offensive military action by the United States unwisely risks massive loss of life . ’ |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | He flung the bedclothes back but not nearly so purposefully as heretofore , and he stayed on his back beside Clarissa who begged him not to go shouting just for once , because that was what the gramophone girl wanted , did n't he see ? |
| 19 | And rightly so as well . |
| 20 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 21 | Whatever , a composite mentality " to figural design is displayed , ( perhaps literally as well as metaphorically ) . |
| 22 | Oh perhaps just as well . |
| 23 | And now suddenly just as soon as I come to form twos they 've taken that away . |
| 24 | At an informal level officers and councillors meet frequently at civic functions , receptions and so forth as well as before and after official meetings , and this too , serves to blur the formal relationship between them . |
| 25 | Still sobbing , but not so wretchedly as before , the boy raised his right arm . |
| 26 | Human beings have never touched me so nearly as now when ‘ Nature ’ was so close : I think , too , I never before struck such firm roots into human hearts ’ . |
| 27 | I suppose I 'm feeling slightly sceptical about the situation , but if you ask me as blankly as that of course my immediate reaction , my old reaction would be ‘ but of course I feel confident about the future of British music ’ , you know , in my more sceptical mood now I still would say ‘ yes ’ , but not quite so enthusiastically as before . |
| 28 | It was weeks since she 'd seen Elaine , and she had n't even asked her how she felt about James being given the general managership , albeit only temporarily as yet . |
| 29 | 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 . ’ |
| 30 | Well , that seems to be everything so far as tomorrow is concerned . |