Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Futurologists however continue as confidently as ever to predict what we shall soon be doing , and it has been very easy for them to extrapolate from contemporary trends , possibilities and experimentation into an even more thoroughly machine-using future . |
| 32 | Lastly , the United Nations Convention of 1986 on Conditions for the Registration of Ships , which no member state has yet signed , even goes as far as expressly to confer on states party thereto the right to choose between the criterion of the nationality of the owner and the criterion of the nationality or place of residence of the crew ( see articles 7 , 8 and 9 , and Annex I to the Commission 's written observations in the Factortame case ( Case C 221/89 ) . |
| 33 | Why ca n't you put it right immediately so as not to stop something that is going well ? |
| 34 | And she began to walk home the long way round so as not to bump into anybody . |
| 35 | From Tripoli the advance into Tunisia involved him in some of the bitterest fighting of the war : in the Matmata Hills on the outflanking of the Mareth Line ; at Wadi Akarit , where he had a narrow escape when he received ( as he modestly put it , doubtless so as not to worry me unduly ) ‘ a wallop from a piece of spent shell ’ , but was not badly injured ; and at the drive north to Enfidaville . |
| 36 | I learnt to look ahead so as not to run out of stores . |
| 37 | A lot of discussion went on between J Walter Thompson and my agent 's assistant , who told me the idea was to vary the commercials considerably so as not to bore the general public . |
| 38 | You work lightly so as not to draw in the knitting or make it lumpy and you could also undo lightly worked stitches more easily . |
| 39 | Any trimming should be done in mid-spring , very lightly so as not to cut into growth older than that produced the previous year . |
| 40 | In the spot-light of an Anglepoise lamp which crouched on a chair like a big , black praying mantis , Finn worked quietly so as not to disturb Francie . |
| 41 | Then she said to me , quietly so as not to disturb the talk , ‘ We shall eat mutton tonight — or Lord Byron and Polidori will , for Percy and I avoid meat . |