Example sentences of "[noun] was [vb pp] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 With effect from the general election of 1965 West German electoral law was amended so as to impose stricter limits on variations in constituency magnitudes .
2 Northern Tyneside was identified so as to incorporate all types of residential locale .
3 As a result , by about the year 400 Christmas Day had become a significant date in the Christian Year : 25 December was chosen so as to exorcize the great pagan festival of the solar solstice .
4 Yet he was to say that the entire enterprise of The Cantos was undertaken so as to uncover the reasons why war happens , so as to preclude its happening again .
5 Among these benefits were : 1 ) Bill of lading provisions that granted the carrier the benefit of the shipper 's insurance were outlawed ; and 2 ) The right of the carrier to limit liability to a fixed sum per package or shipping unit was modified so as to specify a mandatory minimum of 100 Pounds Sterling ( or English Gold Sovereigns ) or the the national currency equivalent per package or unit .
6 The plan form of his Panopticon was designed so as to combine " … the apparent omnipresence of the inspector … with the extreme facility of his real presence " ( Bentham , Works , IV p 45 ) .
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