Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] so [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he pays in first and then has to make an interim payment and he wants to make that payment out of the money in court , he must ask specifically for leave to do so and also to amend his notice of payment in so as to refer to the fact that some of the money has been paid out . |
| 2 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | By all means use them when they are needed or appropriate , but there is no call to construct a headline especially so as to include one or more of them . |
| 5 | Fifth-century Athens followed Pisistratus ' example consciously : he had swivelled the Eleusis Hall of Mysteries round so as to face the city of Athens ; in the 420s Athens inscribed a great decree regulating the offering of first-fruits to Eleusis by her own demes , by the cities of the empire , and by others of the Greeks ( ML 73 = Fornara 140 ) . |
| 6 | A limit had already been placed on the extent of national assistance two years earlier so as to prevent member states from engaging in self-defeating competitive bidding to attract mobile investment , and also in recognition of the basic idea of the Treaty of Rome that there should be a single market with free competition . |
| 7 | She had put her hair up so as to look older than her sixteen years but even so she straightened her music and her shoulders with such self-consciousness that the maturity of her voice came as a shock to him just as it always did . |
| 8 | I saw some people from school and turned my head away so as to avoid them . |
| 9 | The most convincing answer is that Truman was intent primarily upon terminating the Pacific conflict speedily so as to save American lives but that he was interested simultaneously in strengthening American interests vis-à-vis Russia , which included restricting the amount of territory to be occupied by the Soviet Union . |
| 10 | Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery . |
| 11 | Now , when the farmer had left the house , his wife went out to the stable and saddled the pony. then she put on her husband 's best clothes , tied the turban high so as to look as tall as possible , jumped astride the pony , and set off to the field where the tiger was waiting . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's like a terrorist attack , you know , splashing around rifle fire and bazookas and even nerve gas indiscriminately so as to get the highest death toll in the shortest possible time . ’ |
| 13 | Introducing Wired , his biography of John Belushi , Bob Woodward recalls how the rigours of research involved going to bed early so as to rise at 4am to visit one of the comedian 's favourite watering holes . |
| 14 | Added to this , three so-called responsible members of Her Majesty 's Opposition ( Labour ) saw fit to impute that Profumo had arranged to ship Miss Keeler abroad so as to render her unavailable to give evidence at the Old Bailey trial of her coloured lover . |
| 15 | It was better to stop every day 's travel early so as to have good energy for raising a tent , digging an igloo , building a platform up a tree . |
| 16 | In the Essex research , written up in ‘ Industrial Organization : Theory and Practice , O.U.P. , 1965 it was felt necessary to sub-divide these broad categories further so as to produce eleven . |