Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The mitigation of the law was at first carried so far as to sacrifice that object , said J.S. Mill . |
| 2 | She did n't want to be caught up here or to have to pass whoever it was on the stairs . |
| 3 | On either side of the block stood a praepostor from the sixth form , there to see that sentence was carried out decently and to order . |
| 4 | The surveyor should ensure that his inspection is carried out so as to avoid damage to contents and to the property . |
| 5 | Frank , I think , had spoken to him about not taking everything that was said so personally but to learn how to ride the ups and downs , the vicissitudes , of theatre . ’ |
| 6 | And anyway , a few minutes studying the front panel should begin the information digestion process , and Boogie 's operating manual has been written so simply as to lead even the most nervous neophyte through the mire unscathed . |
| 7 | However , even by the middle years of the nineteenth century an industrial city like Manchester had not expanded so far as to prevent its mill workers walking in the country on Sundays . |
| 8 | Uncontrollable items , such as inflation , are best treated separately from controllable costs so that cause and effect can be related more readily and to avoid unnecessary worrying about items over which the budget-holder has no influence . |
| 9 | The questions can be listed in rough under the headings ( some people put each question on a card to begin with ) and then they can be moved about so as to produce what seems to be a good ‘ flow ’ for the interview . |
| 10 | Even then , there may be limits to an exclusion — if it is drawn so widely as to protect a party from all liability , even for total non-performance , its effect may be that the party has promised nothing ; there is therefore no contract , or at best only a unilateral one . |
| 11 | In other words , can the web binding production and consumption be conceived as drawn so tight as to collapse the two together ? |
| 12 | Some of the European Court of Justice 's opinions can be quite ‘ woolly ’ and do leave themselves open to a wider interpretation , but I do not believe that the opinion was meant to be interpreted so widely as to provide for an auditor recognised in one member state to practise in a second member state without any requirement to obtain local authorisation . |
| 13 | This has reversed the rule in Harbutts Plasticine Ltd v Wayne Tank and Pump Co Ltd [ 1970 ] 1 QB 447 , but it has not affected the rule in the Suisse Atlantique case [ 1967 ] 1 AC 61 that exemption clauses can not be construed to apply to fundamental breach unless clearly stated to do so ( See also the Securicor case mentioned above , where an exclusion clause was found to be drafted so widely as to exclude liability for a wilful default which was also a fundamental breach of the contract . ) |
| 14 | By the following winter Michael Horovitz 's New Departures magazine had advanced so far as to put on a live performance at the same venue . |
| 15 | By the end of August , Brusilov had advanced so far as to make replenishment of men and matériel difficult , often impossible . |
| 16 | It can not be said that the result was entirely logical , and one is tempted to agree with a famous last-century astronomer , Sir John Herschel , that the constellations seem to have been drawn up so as to cause as much inconvenience as possible , but the system has become so well established that it is unlikely to be altered now . |
| 17 | In 1929 the Northern Ireland parliamentary boundaries were drawn up so as to attach areas of the surrounding countryside to the city centre , creating the safe Unionist seat of City of Londonderry , while the mainly Catholic areas were put into the Nationalist seat of Foyle . |
| 18 | This chess game works on all graphics boards and the pieces are drawn well so as to avoid straining the eye . |
| 19 | Some 300MW of the output will be used in nearby ICI plants , and the waste heat in the form of steam will also be used either directly or to generate more electricity , lowering the effective energy costs . |
| 20 | In Filliter v. Phippard the word ‘ accidentally ’ was interpreted restrictively so as to cover only ‘ a fire produced by mere chance or incapable of being traced to any cause . ’ |
| 21 | In enamel these crystals are very closely and beautifully packed together so as to constitute 99 per cent by volume of the material . |
| 22 | Changes in the ways employment , training and welfare policies operate need to be brought about so as to get rid of the many disincentives that exist for women wishing to return to training or employment . |
| 23 | No , I must say that things have now gone so far as to justify me in feeling considerable uneasiness about his continued absence . ’ |
| 24 | This country cost her too much ; indeed , she has gone so far as to refuse to discuss the topic . |
| 25 | Indeed one commentator has gone so far as to describe the DTI 's performance in these cases coupled with its sloppiness in the Barlow Clowes affair and failure to press prosecution over the House of Fraser takeover as ‘ part of a lengthy and dishonourable supine tradition ’ ( Alex Brummer , Guardian , 28.8.90 ) . |
| 26 | In many cases local authorities have taken the initial steps and some have gone so far as to form housing associations for the specific purpose of transfer . |
| 27 | North once told Secord that he had gone so far as to mention to the President that the Ayatollah was helping the contras . |
| 28 | She would not have gone so far as to define it as softness . |
| 29 | One bar had even gone so far as to put a few tables outside , and on impulse Zen settled down to enjoy the sunlight and watch the show on the Corso . |
| 30 | One former American Secretary of State has gone so far as to characterise the Armed Forces as an institution ‘ operating entirely outside Party control ’ . |