Example sentences of "[vb base] so as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah I mean so as they 're not stood there doing nothing . |
| 2 | Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow so as to point down the concentration gradient . |
| 3 | If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) . |
| 4 | Where you know so as not to have to risk going having to go to an expensive B and B because all the cheap places have gone . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 6 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |
| 7 | The majority of lone parents become so as the result of separation , divorce or death . |
| 8 | The case of J Sainsbury v O " Connor [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 963 is helpful on the question of what is needed to break the parent company 's beneficial ownership of Target , but on the question of whether " arrangements " exist so as to preclude the operation of the group income election the Sainsbury case has been superseded by the new " option arrangements " provisions in para 5B Sch 18 Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 9 | ( iv ) Individuals choose to belong to national groups ( even if the oppressing force reduces the range of choice to a very narrow one ) and do so as the selection of a strategy for action , not the passive recognition of some primordial ordering . |
| 10 | Ten to fifteen per cent of all the birds in Australia do so as well . |
| 11 | When we talk about it ( now all too common in public ) , we do so as though it had set fast , even for a moment , in some way . |
| 12 | To say that a particular department ( or programme ) provides value for money means that those who strive to provide the service do so as best they can , given the resources that are available and the environment within which they operate . |
| 13 | Those who are studying on a part-time basis as members of a regional course do so as non-residential students , with regular residential weekends and summer schools . |
| 14 | When people write tutorials they usually do so as people who possess great knowledge about the subject they are discussing . |
| 15 | Leading health groups do so as well : |
| 16 | A spokesman for the Roman Catholic diocese of Leeds said : ‘ Those who criticise or accuse do so as private individuals . |
| 17 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |
| 18 | She kept maniacally busy so as not to feel sorrow and set herself the goal of working so hard that at night she fell into bed exhausted . |
| 19 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 20 | It is argued that within the private sector the method by which the firm ensures that individuals behave so as to maximize profits is to pay workers the value of marginal product . |