Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] [vb pp] so as " in BNC.

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1 In Roman times the cities and major towns certainly did , and on a local scale many villas must have done so as well .
2 Numerous others must have done so as well .
3 That law might have developed so as to recognise a condictio indebiti — an action for the recovery of money on the ground that it was not due .
4 He did n't know ‘ what statement Mr. Gibbon had made to the other gentlemen or what reasoning they could have employed so as to sign a paper declaring the fact of urinous vomiting to be utterly impossible — here I must be at issue with them believing as I do … from my little physiological knowledge , that vomiting of urine for 26 weeks is by no means impossible … ’ .
5 I do n't think that was true then , though it could have become so as Saddam Hussein faced continued sanctions .
6 The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court .
7 There who are they on about three four three four three four to call it 's er a very public figure very public you 're bound to have heard of him you 've probably seen him as well I would have thought I would have thought so as some stage picture always in the paper there as well you know nice big swanky car too .
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