Example sentences of "[noun] so as [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |
| 2 | Some countries in particular periods have flexible wages and prices which , at times of unemployment , change so as to reduce the real value of wages . |
| 3 | In all three cases the Court has stressed the gravity of revenge attacks and the danger of dissatisfied victims or their relatives taking the law into their own hands , and then found reasons to mitigate the sentence so as to allow the immediate release of the offender . |
| 4 | Accordingly , he formulates a hypothetical set of computational constraints which he claims will both assess the degree of match between two views so as to choose the better one , and typically force a 3-D interpretation which is both unique and veridical . |
| 5 | At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion . |
| 6 | On Aug. 17 IRNA reported Rafsanjani as having told the Turkish President Turgut Özal during a telephone conversation that " peace with Iraq is a different issue , and we hold to our view that Iraq must evacuate its forces from Kuwait so as to create the necessary conditions for the re-establishment of peace and tranquillity " . |
| 7 | The SEC has acknowledged the need to encourage legitimate information gathering and dissemination so as to promote the efficient operation of the nation 's securities markets . |
| 8 | The present improvement has for its object to compensate for the disturbance of the balance between the upgoing and downgoing lifts which occurs by the immersion of the latter in the water at the foot of the incline , and the improvement consists in gradually diminishing the gradient at the upper end of the incline so as to avoid the great increase of haulage power which would otherwise be required to raise the ascending lift from about the moment when the descending dock begins to enter the water . |
| 9 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
| 10 | In the Court of Appeal Lord Justice Scott said that the set-off under Rule 4.90 operated at the date of the winding-up so as to leave the net amount claimable by a company in a liquidation from the other party or provable as a debt in the liquidation . |
| 11 | One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . |
| 12 | In view of the recent ’ Dispatches ’ television programme , has the Minister conducted an inquiry into how the police , Customs and Excise and the security services work together and how they share information with other countries so as to reduce the hard drugs problem that each and every hon. Member sees weekly in his or her constituency ? |
| 13 | These are conceptualized as unified , non-contradictory , omniscient ‘ actors ’ , united by the common objective of dividing the working class along racial lines so as to facilitate the economic exploitation of both sections of the class . |
| 14 | In setting up the scheme , care must be taken to judge the range and slopes of the lines so as to maintain the desired balance in the minds of the contractor 's engineers . |
| 15 | However , he arranged that , when they had locked their offices and safes , committee secretaries , department heads and Politburo members could leave the building through a secret underground exit so as to avoid the main entrances around which an over-excited crowd was waiting . |
| 16 | Even the domestic cat , when it first sees a mouse , does not immediately rush to capture its prey ; instead , it waits until the appropriate moment so as to achieve the highest chance of success . |
| 17 | In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx describes how an authoritarian regime founded on the bureaucracy ( both military and civil ) enabled the state , led by Louis Bonaparte , to gain a measure of autonomy from the warring factions of the French bourgeoisie so as to preserve the bourgeois social order in the face of a mounting threat from the lower classes . |
| 18 | They 've scoured their record collections for their favourite chic embellishments so as to enhance the luxury commodity aura of their product . |
| 19 | For the first time in their history the Tuareg — the largest tribe of Nomads in the Sahara Desert — recently delayed their annual migration for 10 days so as to catch the final episode of Dallas |
| 20 | But more significantly , it would mean a reduction in investment performance as more funds were switched into gilts and fixed interest stocks so as to meet the statutory solvency requirements . |
| 21 | Alternatively , they may be given as a mark of generosity so as to increase the cohesive forces in society , known as levelling mechanisms . |
| 22 | Accordingly , the legislature has provided this extraordinary process so as to enable the requisite information to be obtained . |
| 23 | It is possible to dissect open the animal 's body so as to expose the abdominal ganglion and its cells , or even to completely isolate the ganglion and the nerves connecting it to pieces of attached skin and gill . |
| 24 | This rule was eventually changed after the war so as to permit the Leamington-born middleweight Dick Turpin to contest the British championship . |
| 25 | The dye colour chosen should be complementary to the rock colour so as to provide the greatest degree of contrast . |
| 26 | This pronouncement on social policy upheld the institution of private property , but acknowledged that limitations might rightly be laid upon its rights so as to protect the poor and weak . |
| 27 | They will sometimes also provide a member of their management team as a co-opted member for the governing body , allowing the manager time to visit during the normal school day so as to develop the strongest possible links . |
| 28 | Whilst this at least saves National Insurance contributions the incentive must be to take out salary at least to a level of £71,400 so as to get the maximum allowance base for pension contributions . |
| 29 | For the full effect of neighbours , go on Saturday or Sunday so as to find the whole array of cars , vans , lorries ‘ motorbikes and children , although if it is a fine weekend some of the boats and caravans may be missing . |
| 30 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |