Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is worth pausing here momentarily to observe that such legally provided remedies can be morally justified even when applied to people who are not subject to the authority of the government and its laws . |
| 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 | Rescheduling the debt has merely deferred rather than solved the problems of increasing internal efficiencies and domestic savings rates . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The coming of new and dramatic types of treatment , however , only heightened rather than diminished the controversy over the old hospitals . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Travelling strongly for much of the way , Ballystate had just moved ahead when belting the final flight . |
| 9 | Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 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 | ii.4.30 , oikeia kai piste ; Thebes and Corinth wanted Athens to be utterly destroyed sooner than see her turned into a Spartan puppet . |
| 14 | Questions should be open ended so as to get the candidate talking . |
| 15 | But Sir Bob wants it to build on what BR has already achieved rather than restructure the rail service . |
| 16 | Where he is addressing the converted , so to speak , he can say that his intention may have been to reinforce or confirm views already held rather than to stir up hatred . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | I feel there can be few more worthy objects for the book-collector who is suitably placed geographically than gathering the printed products of his town or city through the centuries . |
| 19 | ‘ I should hardly like to live with her ladies and gentlemen in their elegant but confined houses , ’ Charlotte Bronte writes in 1848 , reporting the sensations of a reader rather than commenting upon description , for Jane Austen 's contexts are , like Richardson 's , still sensed rather than seen . |
| 20 | For example , why do we accept what we have always presupposed rather than proved ? |
| 21 | But this will have to involve levelling up to the more advantaged rather than levelling down to the lesser , although future benefits can be reduced so long as diminution is applied equally to both sexes . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The IRA has always known better than to attack the security forces of the Republic , since it would instantly lose whatever support it has and could provoke the Irish government to order internment , as it did in the distant past . |
| 24 | She could throw all her considerable energy into her work , which she had always found more than fulfilling . |
| 25 | Despite hopes to the contrary , the war gradually worsened rather than alleviated the problems of the rural population . |
| 26 | 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 ) . |
| 27 | And although always implied rather than broadcast , this rejection of intellectualism is so well understood throughout the service that it has even affected those to whom Bramshill scholarships to University have been offered , and many turn them down . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |