Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] [adv] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 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 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | These incorporated over four thousand pieces of garnet individually cut so as to fit precisely into the cloisons for which they were designed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Questions should be open ended so as to get the candidate talking . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Kaunda is now reported here as talking of Rhodesia as becoming another Phnom Penh ( or however you spell it ) , or Saigon . |
| 16 | Representative government , parties and elections are now seen increasingly as providing an essential framework but as inadequate by themselves to establish a democratic society in the more radical sense of government by the people . |
| 17 | ‘ Wind-chill factors ’ , calculated originally in experiments involving heat losses from dry uninsulated surfaces ( Siple and Passel , 1945 ) , are often represented either as reduced temperatures or as additional heat lost per unit of time . |
| 18 | The former s39 ( now repealed so as to open the way for MDPssee below ) prohibited solicitors from acting as agents for unqualified persons . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The questions are concise and well worded so as to avoid endless lists of fact gathering queries . |
| 22 | Advanced manufacturing technology is widely put forward as holding out the opportunity to change the competitiveness of businesses . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The cross-rails are then rotated so as to tip the samples into the resin pots . |
| 25 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 26 | The blanching process is an automatic version of the usual home method ; the almonds are dipped in boiling water and then forced between two rubber rollers , once again set so as to squeeze off the skin without damaging the nut . |
| 27 | Indeed , as Sutherland and Mackintosh ( 1971 ) have pointed out , Siegels 's training apparatus was specifically arranged so as to ensure that the rats would adopt response strategies of the sort they did . |
| 28 | This contrast may be more apparent than real , however , for new technologies of birth and reproduction may alter the biologically given so as to make possible a changed perspective that would have been inconceivable in the past . |
| 29 | Downstairs the bar 's lay-out has been cleverly designed so as to lend a feeling of space without losing a certain cosiness . |
| 30 | Protest had taken on dimensions never seen before as mounted and riot police in their new formations and with their new equipment clashed with pickets , resulting in many injuries and arrests . |