Example sentences of "as [to-vb] a " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Now if the Major would be so good as to arrange a workroom , I can have the suit finished in a couple of hours . ’
2 He condemned Crilly for his hash , and once went so far as to yank a steaming thick spliff from Crilly 's hand and toss it down the lighthouse cliff .
3 The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank .
4 In this case that certainly was not so ; the ordinary means of access to the house was from the front of the house and to my mind it is very doubtful whether this yard could be regarded as a means of access to the house at all … in my view the section can not be extended beyond what was held in Brown 's case so as to include a yard of this kind .
5 As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition .
6 It is difficult to see any reason why in civil proceedings the privilege against self-incrimination should be exercisable so as to enable a litigant to refuse relevant and even vital documents which are in his possession or power and which speak for themselves .
7 He referred me to President of India v. La Pintada Compania Navigacion S.A. [ 1985 ] A.C. 104 where , in declining to extend the common law so as to enable a plaintiff to recover interest by way of general damages , the House of Lords were influenced by the fact that the legislature had twice intervened to deal with entitlement to interest .
8 persuading a supplier 's lorry driver not to deliver so as to disrupt a commercial contract ) is protected if the attendance is lawful under the 1974 Act , but there is no protection for ‘ secondary picketing , ’ i. e .
9 It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local .
10 He saw himself with almost missionary zeal as a recorder of his surroundings , so as to preserve a record of the remnants of antiquated rusticity which he remembered .
11 In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic .
12 The central party leadership , in fact , went so far as to issue a formal statement on the Baltic situation in late August 1989 , warning against the activities of ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ anti-socialist ’ forces that were pursuing a separatist line with ‘ growing persistence and aggressiveness ’ .
13 This is not interpreted so as to compel a solicitor in overseas practice to maintain cover in excess of the current levels prescribed by the Solicitors ' Indemnity Rules , though local requirements may have that result .
14 In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt .
15 The partnership would capitalise Newco sufficiently to meet the redemption obligations on the debentures and , if Newco became the beneficial owner of more than 25% of the ordinary share capital of Target , prima facie s135 TCGA 1992 would apply so as to preclude a disposal on the exchange of Target shares for Newco debentures , though it would be advisable to obtain from the Inland Revenue advance clearance for this sort of structure under s138 .
16 A situation can be structured and comprehended so as to indicate a direction for proceeding .
17 When his first wife died in 1751 , he went so far as to obtain a licence to marry a certain Hannah Laskey .
18 As has been said , a decision was made to abandon high-order averaging by the instrument so as to obtain a full record of the variations in measurement .
19 This should be sufficient to put a purchaser on notice so that he insists on paying the purchase monies to two trustees or a trust corporation so as to obtain a good receipt ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) .
20 In explaining why he had gone along with ‘ doctoring ’ data so as to secure a contract deadline , a supervisor pointed out , ‘ If I refused to take part in the fraud , I would have to either resign or be fired ’ .
21 Or as a laboratory supervisor , who was asked to go along with the manufacture of ‘ doctored ’ data so as to secure a contract deadline put it ( Vandivier 1972:22 ) :
22 Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice .
23 Thus where the issue is the width of the use covenant , the application of the contra proferentem rule points towards greater freedom of use on the part of the tenant rather than narrower , even if the tenant is arguing for a narrower use so as to secure a benefit on rent review ( Skillion v Keltec Industrial Research [ 1992 ] 1 EGLR 123 ) .
24 If we accept justice as a political virtue we want our legislators and other officials to distribute material resources and protect civil liberties so as to secure a morally defensible outcome .
25 Finally , the corpse was tightly wrapped in cerecloth , a waxed linen , and the seams further sealed with beeswax so as to establish a near airtight condition .
26 The problems of the British social formation were sufficiently pressing to demand at least rhetorical radical solutions from the parties ( Wilson 's ‘ planning ’ , Heath 's ‘ free market ’ ) , and governments ' failures to match their promises were of sufficient concern to the people to breed a serious disillusionment with party politics , yet I submit that for most people of all classes the problems were not considered so urgent as to demand a really radical questioning of existing social relations , with all the risks that would entail .
27 An estimated 5,000 public-sector health workers , taking action against government privatization plans , were joined on strike in late June by 8,500 banana workers , who came out both in solidarity with them as well as to demand a 60 per cent wage increase to offset the effects of the government 's March austerity plan .
28 Archbishop Fisher went so far as to write a very tough letter to the editor in defence of Ramsey .
29 Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it
30 That , however , was only half his story : in the course of his career he held so many ecclesiastical offices as to provoke a constant outcry prebends in Hereford and London , the chancellorship at Exeter , the archdeaconry of Worcester , and in the course of 1294 no fewer than fourteen churches !
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