Example sentences of "[vb past] so as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 2 | But it is also true that he describes this final state as one illumined so as " forto se by vnderstondyng whilk is god , and also gostly thynges with a soft swete brennand loue in hym " ( 8.282b. – 82 ) ; and in Mixed Life Rachel is also defined as " of bigynnynge is God , and bitokene liyf contemplatif " ( 30 – 1.342 – 3 ) . |
| 3 | ‘ Devil ! ’ he said and dismounted so as to approach the thicket more closely . |
| 4 | As a matter of good practice , where the parting of the ways is amicable , restrictions will often be waived or varied so as not to thwart the outgoing partner 's career advancement . |
| 5 | are colour coordinated so as you can |
| 6 | To speak in the same right tones , a causal circumstance can be said to comprise everything needed so as in a way to guarantee its effect . |
| 7 | If this is the case , the adjustment is best made with the strings slackened so as to reduce the possibility of damaging the knife edges on the bridgeplate . |
| 8 | Fenella , seated by the fire , trying not to flinch from onion-tainted breath and unwashed feet ( there was something particularly revolting about the thought of giants ' feet and their toenails ) , thought so as well . |
| 9 | In contrast , in Crowhurst v. Amersham Burial Board , the defendants planted on their land a yew tree which grew so as to project over onto the land of the plaintiff on which cattle were pastured . |
| 10 | The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively . |
| 11 | The extreme poverty of the whole concern is pathetic , and I wished I 'd paid more for the things I bought so as to make life easier for these tanners who look just about ready to give up . |
| 12 | In 1896 it had been well over half a century since Parliament had made specific grants to build parish churches and if Church schools got grants they did so as voluntary , not as Church schools : Roman Catholic , Methodist and ‘ British ’ schools were equally entitled to the grants . |
| 13 | Many of the minority who reluctantly chose to borrow money did so as preferable to having to spend forty days in Winson Green Gaol like Tom Broadbent , the Birmingham brass-dresser , who in 1899 was committed in default of a small debt to a coal merchant , and died there . |
| 14 | It is not surprising then that the earliest women to enter politics did so as ‘ surrogate ’ males , to stand in for husbands or fathers ( see the case of Nancy , Lady Astor ) or that no ‘ monstrous regiment ’ of women was waiting to overwhelm men in the battle for parliamentary seats . |
| 15 | Wazir , Mushtaq and Sadiq wore the green cap too , while the injury-riddled Raees , in Hanif 's estimation the most gifted of Mrs Mohammad 's five boys , did so as 12th man . |
| 16 | If , as Honoré Bouvet wrote , the soldier who acted qua soldier did so as the king 's deputy , all the more so did war 's new leaders act in his name . |
| 17 | The boys contributing to the uproar did so as well , and were rewarded for any unusually telling stroke of humour ( within the tradition-bound schoolboy framework ) by a smirk of appreciation . |
| 18 | Donations by pious laymen doubtless continued , and Glastonbury and Canterbury not only survived , but did so as wealthy churches . |
| 19 | But government spokesmen said that they wanted to see it eventually set so as to maintain the level of existing capacity at the end of the century . |