Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After all , how else can alignments of physical objects be calculated so as to lie along propitious meridians , save by reference to more fixed and less mutable properties of the earth ? |
| 2 | Congress alone has the power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectively the objects of law . |
| 3 | Testing will be revised so as to add less to teachers ' workloads . |
| 4 | With the help of an infrared converter , the measuring beam ( 2μm square cross-section ) was aligned so as to pass axially through a given cell while the reference beam passed either outside the retinal fragment or in a space between photoreceptors . |
| 5 | Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow so as to point down the concentration gradient . |
| 6 | If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) . |
| 7 | A few borings indicating greater thicknesses might be explained away as going diagonally through detritus on the outer flank of the reef , but there are now too many for one to conclude that the results can be explained in this way . |
| 8 | Similarly the text is written so as to bring out comic connotations of the word fut , the passé simple of the verb " to be " by writing it with a characteristically Anglo-Norman spelling as " " fout " " , recalling foutre . |
| 9 | utterly unnecessarily imposed so as to fatten up the privatisation turkey — and the Government have the cheek to tell us how much better things are now . |
| 10 | This can be done electrically as described above . |
| 11 | The module can then be scanned again as described above . |
| 12 | That was not a proper construction of section 78 , which was drawn so as to embrace precisely the situation of this case amongst many others that might arise in individual cases . |
| 13 | Th IN cleavage reaction was performed basically as described previously ( 22 ) . |
| 14 | If you touch the rope even , the bell is angled so as to sound continuously . ’ |
| 15 | IgG anti-bovine lactoferrin antibodies were measured essentially as described above , except that no negative or positive serum references were used . |
| 16 | This file should contain the responses the user would have given to the prompts for the relevant options had the system been used interactively as described below . |
| 17 | In view of the terms of those dicta , the paucity of cases in which the discretion has been exercised so as to exclude legally admissible evidence is not surprising . |
| 18 | Some men get just as turned on by nuzzling and licking the cock and balls without taking them in the mouth . |
| 19 | It was to meet cases of this kind that Equity invented the great remedies of specific performance and injunction : specific performance to compel a man actually to do what he has promised — to give you the land in return for the money , to pay you the purchase money in return for the land ; injunction to forbid him to do what he has promised not to do or what he has no right to do — to forbid him to open the public house or the music-school , to forbid him to build so as to block up your light , even to compel him to pull down the objectionable wall ; the last sort of injunction is called mandatory . |
| 20 | liability whilst travelling abroad as described above , provided notification of the trip has been given to us |
| 21 | Not only would it make her feel almost as grown up as Paula and Louise , but Pete Jackson , with whom Sally was hopelessly in love , was certain to be there . |
| 22 | These incorporated over four thousand pieces of garnet individually cut so as to fit precisely into the cloisons for which they were designed . |
| 23 | In contrast , in Crowhurst v. Amersham Burial Board , the defendants planted on their land a yew tree which grew so as to project over onto the land of the plaintiff on which cattle were pastured . |
| 24 | Might as well bring the clothes and stay here as go home , all the way home and all the way back again . |
| 25 | But the funeral of Mr Whitelaw , who died of a stroke , will go ahead as planned today . |
| 26 | The strike by the staff of the School of Food and Consumer Studies will go ahead as planned tomorrow and the union , the University Lecturers ' Association , is drawing up proposals to spread the industrial action throughout the university . |
| 27 | As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation . |
| 28 | Advanced manufacturing technology is widely put forward as holding out the opportunity to change the competitiveness of businesses . |
| 29 | Passive participles provide a rich vein of relevant instances ; it is a commonplace that these can be construed either as related directly to a verb , and hence in many cases referring to some assumed event , or as being adjectives expressing a state that have lost their verbal connexion . |
| 30 | After Mrs Wordingham 's death later in 1989 , Mr Wordingham applied to the High Court for rectification of the will under s 20(1) ( a ) of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 , which states that ‘ if the court is satisfied that a will is so expressed that it fails to carry out the testator 's intentions , in consequence — ( a ) of a clerical error … it may order that the will shall be rectified so as to carry out his intentions … ‘ . |