Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] so [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus polyisobutylene might be expected to crystallize because the chain is symmetrical , but it will only do so if maintained at an optimum temperature for several months . |
| 2 | In all cases , however , the broken ends of the DNA on either side of the initial cut are apparently sealed so as to form hairpins , as Martin Gellert ( NIH ) showed , before they are nicked to form the final joint ( a process reminiscent of the reaction mechanism employed by topisomerases ) . |
| 3 | According to the Far Eastern Economic Review of Aug. 22 , Cam was reluctant to accept the post and only did so after Do Muoi personally pressed him . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Many refused ; even the town of Dijon , capital of the duchy of Burgundy , only did so when ordered to do so by its duke . |
| 6 | He concluded , in the language of the time , that the early sea-urchin was a ‘ harmonious equipotential system ’ in the sense that the parts all functioned so as to generate a normal organism . |
| 7 | In either case the human intervention must be a very high level one based on complex diagnosis and innovative design-type thinking about how best to cope so as to avoid a catastrophe . |
| 8 | A policeman 's job is made more difficult if a person physically obtrudes so as to prevent the policeman from arresting a third person , and it has been held that such conduct constitutes obstruction . |
| 9 | These incorporated over four thousand pieces of garnet individually cut so as to fit precisely into the cloisons for which they were designed . |
| 10 | If so , the Directive will normally operate so as to transfer the employees employed by the former controller in the discharge of the function to the new controller and on the same terms and conditions of employment . |
| 11 | It was also true that the renewed Triple Alliance of the same year was soon buttressed so as to isolate France and Russia still more . |
| 12 | Questions should be open ended so as to get the candidate talking . |
| 13 | Now it is sometimes argued that the Reform Bill was deliberately framed so as to preclude the threat of a revolution founded on such an alignment , one in which a middle-class bourgeoisie would have provided the leadership and the lower classes the sheer mass , the numbers needed to carry it out ; and shrewdly calculated to concede just so much as was needed to reduce to a manageable scale the gathering political unrest which might have led to just such a convulsion . |
| 14 | ‘ You must not deliberately offend so as to invite such punishment , ’ whispered the puissant amputee hoarsely . |
| 15 | Although ApC may be a potential cleavage site on account of its structure , the asymmetric drug molecule will always bind so as to cleave the opposing ( GT ) strand by virtue of its ability to form a hydrogen bond with guanine . |
| 16 | The Gregorian calendar ; European officers to train her armed forces ; steam power for her industry ; central banking ; a new peerage specially created so as to make orthodox bicameral government possible by providing the material for an Upper House ; the codification of her law ; a representative system : these were all pieces of the structure of a new Japan which was at last crowned by alliance with one European power and victory in war over another ( see below , Ch. 8 ) . |
| 17 | A trade union was now to become , in the Webbs ' first definition ‘ a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving the conditions of their employment ’ , a definition later altered so as to refer to ‘ working lives ’ rather than ‘ employment ’ . |
| 18 | Thus its surface may only occasionally be punctuated by groups of waterlilies and its margins graced with a restrained selection of marginal plants carefully placed so as to balance the visual aspect of the pool and yet not spoil it reflective qualities . |
| 19 | We are , therefore , anxious that he should not be thrown away in some other role and I hope that any plan he has made will be carefully examined so as to ensure that as far as possible he does not do something foolhardy . |
| 20 | Newsletters were circulated giving details of campaigns , and some of these , such as those sent by Bartholomew Burghersh to the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1346 , were carefully phrased so as to generate public support for the invasion of Normandy . |
| 21 | The exclusionary rule was later extended so as to prohibit the court from looking even at reports made by commissioners on which legislation was based : Salkeld v. Johnson ( 1848 ) 2 Exch. 256 , 273 . |
| 22 | The former s39 ( now repealed so as to open the way for MDPssee below ) prohibited solicitors from acting as agents for unqualified persons . |
| 23 | The UK agreements are not concerned with principle or with the ‘ spirit ’ of the agreement : they are trickily worded and legalistically interpreted so as to maintain the maximum freedom to advertise . |
| 24 | The disk is round to pentagonal , delicate and frequently damaged so as to obscure the shape ; covered with skin without any plates ; disk diameter up to 25 mm . |
| 25 | For example , Manning ( 1977 ) showed how policemen and women in the ranks have an ability to bypass or undermine innovations introduced by police managers , some even doing so while appearing to endorse the policy change ( Chatterton 1979 ) . |
| 26 | The questions are concise and well worded so as to avoid endless lists of fact gathering queries . |
| 27 | Gilding , normally done by taking powered gold mixed with mercury to form an amalgam , was painted onto the surface and then heated so as to drive off the mercury . |
| 28 | 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 ) . |
| 29 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |
| 30 | The cross-rails are then rotated so as to tip the samples into the resin pots . |