Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The better-known Cabinet Ministers moved in a stately fashion as if speed of foot might trample accidentally a party worker bent upon homage ; better to tread slowly so as to receive fittingly the admiration of many . |
| 2 | What an ordinary individual needs is to have a slice of his savings invested in the company he works for , and the rest spread widely so as to spread his risk , through unit trusts ( mutual funds ) , life-insurance policies or pension funds . |
| 3 | The water molecules were spread widely so as to react with the plasma effectively reducing the plasma density through a process beginning with ion-exchanges . |
| 4 | To partake in that utterance must demand superhuman courage , courage from the divine , an ability to think so intensely as to die even from pure thought — to die a death ordained , not for self-glorification , a significant and saving death . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ) |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But there is no agreement on the way these costs should be calculated and estimates vary so widely as to make them practically meaningless . |
| 9 | In present everyday usage the phrase could be understood to mean quite simply that capital , or more precisely , the people disposing of it , treats labour , or more precisely , the people employed , so badly as to create resentment . |
| 10 | The Conservatives would not always win under the electoral system of 1918 , but they would rarely do so badly as to allow anyone else to win . |
| 11 | By all means use them when they are needed or appropriate , but there is no call to construct a headline especially so as to include one or more of them . |
| 12 | These categories reveal an intricate relationship between social rank and economic standing , so much so as to invite the conclusion that by this date , if not much earlier , it had come to be acknowledged that status was a function of source and level of income , subject to the proviso that land took precedence over personal property . |
| 13 | Trumpets wailed , acrobats somersaulted , torn beasts died ; some bejewelled ladies blew kisses , perhaps only so as to kindle the jealousy of rival ladies or of their own lords . |
| 14 | In this more temperate climate , we can see that rock 's estate is a grand one , and it 's tempting to tramp its grounds — necessary , perhaps , if only so as to have somewhere to ‘ go ’ . |
| 15 | On the one hand , Jaq must seem capable of irony and flexible tolerance — perhaps only so as to spring a trap . |
| 16 | Take the example of St-Germain-des-Prés on the west bank of the Seine at Paris : here the landlord , the monastic community , organised peasant transport services not only so as to ensure the abbey 's food supply but to permit the sale of surplus wine and corn . |
| 17 | Narrowly dyadic relationships of this kind show no tendency to proliferate outwards so as to form a wider network , and , since they are usually short-lived , anthropologists have not often given them much attention . |
| 18 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 19 | This court , submits Mr. Richards , with impressive citation from those high authorities , should think long and hard before waiving the appellant 's undertaking merely so as to improve C.N.L. 's position in their libel action . |
| 20 | The lateral sclerites usually comprise two plates on either side , closely hinged together so as to form a fulcrum between the head and prothorax . |
| 21 | Currently the most widely known ( and also most widely criticized ) theory on the subject is that of Noam Chomsky who has pointed out that , although children have to learn the meanings of individual words from their elders ( which would make language a phenomenon of culture ) , they seem to know how to string words together so as to distinguish sense from nonsense long before they have acquired any substantial vocabulary . |
| 22 | In enamel these crystals are very closely and beautifully packed together so as to constitute 99 per cent by volume of the material . |
| 23 | ‘ Very like ! ’ he said , knowing it was true , and knowing that he would not hold back so long as to let it be true . |
| 24 | The list of sins , venial and otherwise , was long , but not so long as to come as a surprise . |
| 25 | He had then gone to Hollywood in the early fifties and stayed there long enough to show that he could cope with the system and be moderately successful , but not so long as to alienate his chauvinistic British following . |
| 26 | But it was Cromwell who remained the arch repository of true evil in the world , Cromwell who had persecuted Ireland so greatly as to overshadow even Queen Elizabeth who , vilifying Mary Stuart , had put her to a martyr 's death . |
| 27 | All this is , of course , true for others beside old people , and it is no part of the argument to categorise old people so separately as to further stigmatise them . |
| 28 | The requirement against memory ‘ bundling ’ had been important when the EC first looked at the complaints back in 1977 ; but in the period 1977–84 memory prices dropped so steeply as to make the point relatively trivial . |
| 29 | The fuse would destroy itself , the gunpowder explode , poor Cosmas 's legs would be shattered , and even if he wanted to , the fire spread so quickly as to prevent his escape . |
| 30 | The wartime bombers did n't seem to care what went up ; by contrast the PIRA did and cared so deliberately as to set out selectively to destroy what is now an illusion — the sanctity of hospital in which , regardless of loyalty or background , so many thousands of victims of our vicious little civil war have received care since those nights in August 1969 . |