Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Our audit has been performed so as to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material error . |
2 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
3 | " A money award can be calculated so as to make good a financial loss " : per Lord Morris in West v Shephard [ 1964 ] AC at p345 . |
4 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
5 | It can then be located so as to provide convenient armchair control . |
6 | The second hypothesis of this paper is that patterns of regularity in the semantic net can be exploited so as to generate meaningful , linear documents . |
7 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
8 | NAB has decided that the 1983–4 pool should be distributed so as to accord equal treatment to the polytechnics and the colleges of higher education . |
9 | Information must be focused so as to serve precise management tasks . |
10 | Management can plan projects such as hotel maintenance and redecorating ; advertising campaigns can be directed so as to improve low occupancy percentages . |
11 | Pipelines must be fitted so as to maintain continuous flow at turbulence producing levels with valves , glands , seals , junctions and outlets so designed and positioned as to avoid causing ‘ traps ’ where food deposits can accumulate or cleaning solutions can stagnate . |
12 | In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) . |
13 | It should be noted that many of the rights outlined above are qualified so as to accommodate existing national practices . |