Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ( b ) On the other hand the courts will not carry a literal construction of the articles so far as to defeat their obvious purpose . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She could describe weather conditions so realistically as to make her audience shiver or sweat , and children would find themselves taking off and putting on a garment in mid-tale . |
| 6 | It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing . |
| 7 | 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 . |