Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [adv] as [to-vb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 're trying , of course , to position ourselves so as to fool our competitors into delaying or cancelling their capacity increases . |
| 2 | I started to write it so as to shake them . |
| 3 | Consider for example : ( 10 ) Haberup made his golem angry If Haberup is the person who originally assembles the golem , he may , through design or carelessness , have produced it so as to start its " life " in an unpleasant frame of mind ; sentence ( 10 ) will describe this situation on condition that the adjective is taken as a predicate qualifier , and in this case ( 10 ) does have a matching question with how ? |
| 4 | ‘ The persistent concern to increase councillor calibre through reorganization ’ , he says , ‘ makes it equally clear that the essential object of reorganization has been to make local government more functional for dominant interests , by restructuring it so as to facilitate their direct control of its expenditure and interventions ’ ( 1979 , p. 245 ) . |
| 5 | To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments . |
| 6 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 7 | Such reforms would either completely displace existing rules derived from the Fair Trading Act and monopolies legislation or they would refashion them so as to make them more meaningful in the era of multi-media ownership . |