Example sentences of "[verb] so [conj] [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 | When in agreement with the other person , openly say so and say why |
| 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 | We will do so and remain steadfastly independent of pressure from whatever quarter . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 13 | If you touch the rope even , the bell is angled so as to sound continuously . ’ |
| 14 | which the House of Lords would have exercised if it had been asked to do so but had not in fact been so asked , Berry ( No. 2 ) would have been a very easy case for the Court of Appeal to deal with , but there is no indication that it found Berry ( No. 2 ) to be so simple . |
| 15 | The war did not prove particularly popular with the English nobility , who served when called upon to do so but gained little from it . |
| 16 | If the returns fell it increased labour output ; if they rose it felt no need to do so and opted instead for increased leisure . |
| 17 | He had every motive to leave town , plenty of opportunity to do so and paid only a relatively small price . |
| 18 | Some years ago Western Samoans were found never to develop type I diabetes in their own environment but to do so when brought up in New Zealand . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Braintree prevented the try but were offside in doing so and went in at half-time 6–0 down . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 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 | Machinery overcame this skill deficiency , and did so while bringing constantly falling costs . |
| 25 | Those that have did so while stationed elsewhere , for the district of Easton has predominantly ‘ ordinary crime ’ . |
| 26 | The teacher expressed concern that , although he could write quite well in English , he only did so when writing collaboratively with his friend ( who was absent ) ; she thought that collaboration might be becoming an avoidance strategy , to get out of the frustrating task of attempting to write in English . |
| 27 | As the clients relaxation skills develop the exercises may be combined so as to speed up the process of relaxation . |
| 28 | 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 … ‘ . |
| 29 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |
| 30 | A few did not agree with Mr Knightley 's decision to allow the quarry to go ahead , even with certain provisos , and they were prepared to say so and explain why . |