Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Competency testing in high school , civil-service examinations , job-placement examinations , college-entrance examinations , and diagnostic testing in school have , as a result , been restrained , banned , or revised so as to reduce test accuracy . |
| 2 | These are covered by flaps projecting from the lower edge of the thorax that can be opened or closed so as to increase or dampen the sound like shutters on an organ . |
| 3 | The core is aligned with one coil picking up the north-south field and inclined at roughly 67° to the horizontal and adjusted so as to produce the largest positive output from the amplifier . |
| 4 | Where there is only one in-situ anchor , or else you are making your own anchor points , the first person down should have back-up protection , clipped independently into the abseil ropes , and adjusted so as to come into immediate effect if the main anchor fails , but without directly supporting it . |
| 5 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 6 | Wilson and Jones , in their investigations of this effect , did not test the carcinogens on cells , but on DNA extracted from cells and treated so as to make it mimic the methylated DNA of a dividing cell . |
| 7 | Consent is represented as the critical feature of the law which ensures the patient 's right to self-determination , whereas , in fact , it is referred to and manipulated so as to produce the opposite result . |
| 8 | ‘ Devil ! ’ he said and dismounted so as to approach the thicket more closely . |
| 9 | The records typically understate the concentration of wealth , for they rely on individual declarations which are manipulated and presented so as to minimise apparent wealth holdings . |
| 10 | It is generally fitted with an additional diffuser such as a glass cloth scrim , and positioned so as to give a lighting intensity of about one half of that of the key light . |
| 11 | Bentham 's universally applicable form for these buildings was circular with an inspector 's lodge housed in a tower in the centre and positioned so as to afford an uninterrupted view into the remainder of the accommodation . |
| 12 | A situation can be structured and comprehended so as to indicate a direction for proceeding . |
| 13 | Future services must be structured and organized so as to avoid the pitfalls : an organizational structure is required to facilitate the smooth cooperation of all the individual parts of a service and ensure that there are no wasteful overlaps and no gaps . |
| 14 | But as he was finishing his second pint , and wondering again whether to go up and see one or other of the Mrs Machins , his mind was made up for him . |
| 15 | Using the Churchill amendment as a model , the words ‘ exposed to view ’ could be deleted and replaced so as to limit such exclusion to ‘ any part of that matter which is neither visible nor accessible to persons under the age of 18 , or which , if so accessible , is not kept in a wrapping which , while intact , prevents that matter from being seen ’ . |
| 16 | In fact , on a fast PC with an average hard disk , it can be quicker to load a smaller file and decompress rather than to load the full-sized equivalent . |
| 17 | It remains to be seen whether this suggestion will become law , but the only really confident prediction must be that so long as capitalism remains , trusts will continue to change and develop so as to meet changes in social conditions and the tax structure . |
| 18 | Only since the general adoption of the policy of specialisation engendered by the Industrial Revolution has it become common to demolish and rebuild rather than to adapt and extend . |
| 19 | Susan explained as well as she could that at present they would n't want any help , whereupon the visitor bristled and announced that she was ‘ Blunt by name , and blunt by nature ’ , and knew better than to push herself in where she was n't wanted ! |
| 20 | They are likely to argue that the structures we use are ‘ overblown ’ and pitched so as to overestimate the costs of running a unitary City-based authority . |
| 21 | They indicate that marking schemes may be designed in different ways : ( a ) written before pupil responses have been seen ; or derived after a sample of answers has been seen , and constructed so as to reflect the strength and weaknesses of candidates ' performance ( often combined with the first point ) . |
| 22 | It aimed to extend the scale of human social , political and cultural units : to unify and expand rather than to restrict and separate . |
| 23 | He looked from one to the other of their faces but knew better than to open his mouth . |
| 24 | She was feeling a great deal better about everything , but knew better than to say so . |
| 25 | Paige was startled by his assumption , but knew better than to deny it . |
| 26 | Jay was intrigued , but knew better than to ask the question direct . |
| 27 | I tried to work out an obvious connection between scholarship and cocaine and could not , but knew better than to ask . |
| 28 | Landgrebe , only the second graduate employed by the company , had taken over Peter Revers ' job when the latter went to New York and had responsibilities for scheduling and managing shops , but knew better than to express an opinion on artistic matters . |
| 29 | The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice . |
| 30 | A complicating factor , so often seen in evolution , involves the ‘ cheats ’ , for there are many species with non-nutritious seed appendages but coloured so as to mimic them , e.g. species of Ormosia and Rhynchosia ( Leguminosae ) . |