Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This has reversed the rule in Harbutts Plasticine Ltd v Wayne Tank and Pump Co Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 QB 447 , but it has not affected the rule in the Suisse Atlantique case [ 1967 ] 1 AC 61 that exemption clauses can not be construed to apply to fundamental breach unless clearly stated to do so ( See also the Securicor case mentioned above , where an exclusion clause was found to be drafted so widely as to exclude liability for a wilful default which was also a fundamental breach of the contract . ) |
| 2 | In present everyday usage the phrase could be understood to mean quite simply that capital , or more precisely , the people disposing of it , treats labour , or more precisely , the people employed , so badly as to create resentment . |
| 3 | This court , submits Mr. Richards , with impressive citation from those high authorities , should think long and hard before waiving the appellant 's undertaking merely so as to improve C.N.L. 's position in their libel action . |
| 4 | Currently the most widely known ( and also most widely criticized ) theory on the subject is that of Noam Chomsky who has pointed out that , although children have to learn the meanings of individual words from their elders ( which would make language a phenomenon of culture ) , they seem to know how to string words together so as to distinguish sense from nonsense long before they have acquired any substantial vocabulary . |
| 5 | Again this is a key finding , for little can be done about speeds , safety and environmental traffic management issues so long as housing areas have through traffic inflicted upon them . |
| 6 | You can concentrate on two things for only so long as changing positions to help the photographer and holding the adult shearwater proved . |
| 7 | But so long as winning elections is seen as a mere matter of tweaking a market image , or of changing a brand title or logo , the whole enterprise is doomed to failure . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Indeed Sockett ( 1980 ) goes so far as to call accountability based on prespecified results ‘ anti-educational ’ . |
| 10 | So far as mens rea is concerned , the issue is not whether the defendant himself considered that the words or conduct in question was insulting , but whether he realised that the persons whom he was addressing might do so . |
| 11 | They have to learn a lot of different skills , and also in business nothing happens unless you 're good at organizing teams , so businessmen often get good at working with people , which is , I think , a hugely important experience so far as helping people to grow up is concerned . |
| 12 | We 'd even go so far as throwing modesty to the wind , and say you wo n't find better value for money holidays or flights anywhere else . |
| 13 | But one does not have to go so far as to support child benefit for the qualitative demographic effect it may or may not have . |
| 14 | Many manufacturers wo n't allow you to remove the machine 's case without automatically voiding your warranty : some go so far as to put seals over the case so they can tell if you 've opened it . |
| 15 | As Carol Dyhouse has pointed out , in concentrating their attention on mothercraft , medical experts tended to devalue women 's knowledge regarding infant care , one doctor going so far as to label grandmothers as ‘ infanticide experts ’ . |
| 16 | Bergson went so far as to describe intelligence , or the intellect , as being , and I quote , ‘ characterised by a natural inability to comprehend life . ’ |
| 17 | Dhanraj began by stating unequivocally that she saw film-making as a tool for socio-political challenge ( she would not go so far as to say change ) and that documentary was best suited to this purpose . |
| 18 | I am not sure she could actually have gone so far as to say things like : ‘ these errors may be trivial in themselves , but you must yourself realize their larger significance ’ . |
| 19 | Some biologists go so far as to see DNA as a device used by organisms to reproduce themselves , just as an eye is a device used by organisms to see ! |
| 20 | Indeed , if we go so far as to see externalization as inevitably bringing the ego into conflict with reality , then we might conclude that many modern neuroses — perhaps the most severe ones — are likely to become para-psychoses : that is , neurotic conflicts expressing themselves in the language of psychosis . |
| 21 | Where the husband goes so far as to cause injury , there are available a number of offences against the person with which he may be charged , but the gravamen of the husband 's conduct is the injury he has caused not the sexual intercourse he has forced . ’ |
| 22 | In that particular case the judges pronounced in general on the right of free speech , but did not go so far as to appoint experts to ascertain whether the accused was right in his criticism or not ( see The Art Newspaper No.14 , January 1992 , p.1 ) . |
| 23 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 24 | On two occasions Shah Jehan went so far as to declare Dara his desired successor , while adding that the matter rested in the hands of Allah . |
| 25 | Vice-President Salvador Laurel , speaking on Dec. 4 during a visit to Hong Kong , went so far as to cast doubts on the President 's ability to continue even if the coup was put down : " If Aquino insists on staying in power I do n't think that would assist in solving the problem . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Even Amabel could not go so far as to trouble Gemma . |
| 28 | In 1991 , Mrs Virginia Bottomley , then minister for health , even went so far as to use section 118 as the reason for not being able to give parliament information about the production and distribution of counterfeit medicines . |
| 29 | Nay , they even go so far as to lay odds that before Christmas he lands a force in England or Ireland . |
| 30 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |