Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If only one frame at a time is exposed , with a delay in between ( stop motion ) , movement is not so much speeded up as created artificially : this is the basic principle of animation in all its forms . |
| 2 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 3 | In all cases , however , the broken ends of the DNA on either side of the initial cut are apparently sealed so as to form hairpins , as Martin Gellert ( NIH ) showed , before they are nicked to form the final joint ( a process reminiscent of the reaction mechanism employed by topisomerases ) . |
| 4 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 5 | He concluded , in the language of the time , that the early sea-urchin was a ‘ harmonious equipotential system ’ in the sense that the parts all functioned so as to generate a normal organism . |
| 6 | For Tsongas this was considered a reward for his diligent and intelligent campaigning in the state , whilst for Clinton it represented a powerful resurgence for a campaign which , in early February , was being widely written off as doomed . |
| 7 | Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media . |
| 8 | The playful little animals were abandoned on the same day they were thoughtlessly handed over as presents . |
| 9 | This is not interpreted so as to compel a solicitor in overseas practice to maintain cover in excess of the current levels prescribed by the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules , though local requirements may have that result . |
| 10 | The mother has made a phone call to the hospital asking after her daughter 's safety but she has not called back as promised . |
| 11 | These incorporated over four thousand pieces of garnet individually cut so as to fit precisely into the cloisons for which they were designed . |
| 12 | It was also true that the renewed Triple Alliance of the same year was soon buttressed so as to isolate France and Russia still more . |
| 13 | Things have not worked out as expected , there has been a snag , the line of development has come to a dead end , the promising drug is not safe enough for people and so on . |
| 14 | Questions should be open ended so as to get the candidate talking . |
| 15 | Where the consideration consists of securities , the value of the securities if quoted shall be their mid market value ; if not quoted then as agreed between us . |
| 16 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 17 | Grouping carbon dioxide and all the other greenhouse gases together , most computer models predict that an increase in greenhouse gases equivalent to a doubling of carbon dioxide concentration from its pre-industrial level will be reached during the decade of the 2030s ( even if CFCs are rapidly phased out as planned ) . |
| 18 | It is usually set out as follows : |
| 19 | And it is there in his conducting of Debussy 's Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune , which the English Wagnerian Reginald Goodall once singled out as conducting that managed by some unique alchemy simultaneously to catch a sense of fire and ice , sultry heat and marble calm . |
| 20 | The Gregorian calendar ; European officers to train her armed forces ; steam power for her industry ; central banking ; a new peerage specially created so as to make orthodox bicameral government possible by providing the material for an Upper House ; the codification of her law ; a representative system : these were all pieces of the structure of a new Japan which was at last crowned by alliance with one European power and victory in war over another ( see below , Ch. 8 ) . |
| 21 | A trade union was now to become , in the Webbs ' first definition ‘ a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ’ , a definition later altered so as to refer to ‘ working lives ’ rather than ‘ employment ’ . |
| 22 | Thus its surface may only occasionally be punctuated by groups of waterlilies and its margins graced with a restrained selection of marginal plants carefully placed so as to balance the visual aspect of the pool and yet not spoil it reflective qualities . |
| 23 | Indeed throughout humanities disciplines , after thirty-odd years of this kind of research , there are embarrassingly few books and articles which can be confidently pointed out as passing both tests . |
| 24 | We are , therefore , anxious that he should not be thrown away in some other role and I hope that any plan he has made will be carefully examined so as to ensure that as far as possible he does not do something foolhardy . |
| 25 | The 1981 WHO international code of marketing of breast-milk substitutes is not intended to curb the use of these products ; its aim is clearly set down as follows : ‘ to contribute to the provision of safe and adequate nutrition for infants by the protection and promotion of breast-feeding , and by ensuring the proper use of breast-milk substitutes , when these are necessary , on the basis of adequate information and through appropriate marketing and distribution ’ . |
| 26 | In practice , as the Party learned , so its patience diminished : it shifted to incorporating territories by force , while conceding the forms of federation and a measure of cultural autonomy ( those things formerly ruled out as institutionalizing division ) . |
| 27 | Newsletters were circulated giving details of campaigns , and some of these , such as those sent by Bartholomew Burghersh to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1346 , were carefully phrased so as to generate public support for the invasion of Normandy . |
| 28 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
| 29 | Kaunda is now reported here as talking of Rhodesia as becoming another Phnom Penh ( or however you spell it ) , or Saigon . |
| 30 | Representative government , parties and elections are now seen increasingly as providing an essential framework but as inadequate by themselves to establish a democratic society in the more radical sense of government by the people . |