Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Trumpets wailed , acrobats somersaulted , torn beasts died ; some bejewelled ladies blew kisses , perhaps only so as to kindle the jealousy of rival ladies or of their own lords . |
| 2 | On the one hand , Jaq must seem capable of irony and flexible tolerance — perhaps only so as to spring a trap . |
| 3 | These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property . |
| 4 | The origin of Blakeney Point is open to discussion : it has been suggested that the western end may have been a feature comparable with Scolt Head Island and later joined to the mainland by a simple spit growing westwards from Weybourne : it may have developed entirely as a spit such as Orford Ness or Hurst Castle Spit , which will be described below ; or the whole feature may represent an offshore bar driven so far inshore as to become attached to the coast . |
| 5 | In fact , some people 's remembering of the exact colours and their proportions might be so far out as to scramble the possible building of any picture . |
| 6 | Even drivers of average height will need the seat so far back as to make it impossible to see directly behind . |
| 7 | ‘ Those notices , ’ announced Gus clearly to the general air , but not so loudly as to reach unauthorised ears , ‘ mean exactly what they say . |
| 8 | The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise . |
| 9 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 10 | The day had been hot ; in fact , the previous week had been very hot and so the roads and streets were paved with ridged flags of mud , hardbaked , but not so hard as to prevent their surfaces being skimmed off into dust which , in some streets of the town , seemed to be floating waist high like a mist rising from water . |
| 11 | Not so quietly as to escape the attention of the ever-vigilant Scottish recruitment machine , however . |
| 12 | Hilts has fallen under the spell of each in turn — not so deeply as to distort fact , but deeply enough to lose the sardonic , sceptical qualities that ought never quite to desert the journalist . |
| 13 | Take the example of St-Germain-des-Prés on the west bank of the Seine at Paris : here the landlord , the monastic community , organised peasant transport services not only so as to ensure the abbey 's food supply but to permit the sale of surplus wine and corn . |
| 14 | He had left home so hurriedly as to have packed not one of the poetry volumes that he was very seldom without . |
| 15 | And if a new kind of replicator takeover is beginning , it is conceivable that it will take off so far as to leave its parent DNA ( and its grandparent clay if Cairns-Smith is right ) far behind . |
| 16 | For example , a coastline is a curve whose length ( between any two points ) increases when measured more accurately so as to include its ever-finer convolutions round bays , headlands , cliffs , boulders rocks , pebbles , etc , and on any reasonably simple model the length is infinite . |
| 17 | This consisted of an index ( with a score of 75 or below ) which combined relative per capita income and relative unemployment levels , and was an attempt to redefine the assisted areas more narrowly so as to direct funds to those areas most in need . |
| 18 | You praise and criticize as appropriate but always authentically rather than to create an effect . |
| 19 | The basket was about a metre deep and the back of it had been built right up high so as to support the bank of flowers . |
| 20 | ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true . |
| 21 | However , by the simple mathematical device of plotting reciprocals it was possible to extend or extrapolate the size-strength curve fairly reliably so as to ascertain the strength of a fibre of negligible thickness . |
| 22 | Through the winter months , the larger firms gave further assurances that they were willing " to take immediate steps for the gradual reduction of female comps " ; some it seems went even so far as to dismiss women . |
| 23 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
| 24 | As Jaq questioned Meh'Lindi yet again so as to compare her impressions with his , a sickening realization about the probable nature of the hydra dawned on him . |
| 25 | But , when out in open ground , as Duncan was , the occupant had to lie absolutely still so as to avoid being seen . |
| 26 | Having made a decision on travel as their retirement hobby , they may have to live very modestly so as to finance their trips overseas . |
| 27 | Erm there are , however , and a number of other valid objections erm if I just mention them very briefly so as to save time . |