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

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1 The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development .
2 In the more commonly understood sense they have been strengthened , because they have been changed so as to obtain more convictions relating to well-publicised and hard-lobbied issues .
3 The second common motivation is the desire to increase the use of the stock — either by improving its appearance , so as to attract more users to the library , and/or by providing easier access to elements of the stock which are worthwhile , by removing the dead wood .
4 If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models .
5 This move can be interpreted either as yet another instance of poor central-local ties or as deliberate slowness so as to let more money flow into public funds .
6 This cost can be direct , for example in the form of additional accounting staff salaries , or it can be indirect , where other activities are neglected so as to put more effort into the final accounts .
7 The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive .
8 He speaks more slowly , leans more eagerly , so as to offer more opportunity to the mimics ; smiles more disarmingly at the result .
9 Mrs Woodie felt half inclined to lend her some , so as to have more to sort out and put away .
10 Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions .
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