Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [noun] so as " in BNC.

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1 Later , she subtly modified her views so as to accommodate , not alienate , American feminists .
2 By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible .
3 We had , ‘ shaved our heads so as not to be sex objects , and boarded up our windows so that men in the street could n't see in ’ .
4 The experience then was that floating did not appear to be very successful since individual countries depreciated their currencies so as to gain a competitive advantage over their trading rivals .
5 At the last moment , however , de Gaulle 's tactical sense asserted itself : he revised his message so as to emphasize his ideological opposition to Vichy , embrace the political tradition of liberty , equality , and fraternity , and acknowledge the necessity of a postwar social transformation .
6 He clenched shut his eyes so as not to see the pale oval of her face through the shadows .
7 We planned and performed our audit so as to obtain all the information and explanations which we considered necessary in order to provide us with sufficient evidence to give reasonable assurance that the accounts are free from material misstatement , whether caused by fraud or other irregularity or error .
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