Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [vb pp] so [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Ministries and departments were not organized so as to devise ‘ communications policy ’ that could encompass information technology and the mass media .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Er people did not , in fact , wish to pay taxes in order to allow erm their rulers to play the game of war and the limited sums of money available for these wars was soon expended so when your cash ran out , then you sued for peace you , you engaged in negotiations .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 To produce the latter the inner coffin was placed on to a width of lead which was then cut so as to be three inches larger all round than the coffin itself ; this was then turned up and tacked to the wood .
9 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 .
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