Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as [to-vb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 The courts will , however , avoid constraining a statute so as to dispense with a hearing completely .
2 On 19 June 1991 Mervyn Davies J. [ 1992 ] Ch. 160 set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to apply to a foreign bank incorporated and resident abroad having no place of business in the United Kingdom , with the consequence that the court had no jurisdiction to make an order under the section against the bank .
3 The Legal Aid Act 1979 , extended the scope of legal advice and assistance so as to include within the ambit of the scheme , ‘ assistance by way of representation ’ ( ABWOR ) at certain designated proceedings .
4 We 've struggled to establish financial security so as to provide for the needs of our families and communities .
5 How could minute quantities of an injected peptide be guided to and then enter the appropriate neuron so as to code for the new memory ?
6 Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’
7 He writes in Our Lady : ‘ We are , after all , familiar enough with the tragedy of a certain feeling which is obliged to borrow its expression from the opposite feeling so as to escape from the myrmidons of the law .
8 However as late as 1668 another Roman , Mario Savioni ( c. 1608–1685 ) brought out a book of five-part Madrigali morali e spirituali , explaining that they were to be sung each at the end of one of his previously published Concerti morali and adding that he had ‘ taken care to unite together the aria and the madrigal so as to conform with the character of the concertos ’ .
9 Those consequences can be avoided ( and Community law respected ) in so far as national courts interpret national legislation so as to comply with the terms of the directive in question .
10 Rawls constructs his model so as to argue for the primacy of an equality of needs .
11 Write the number in pencil on the outside of the examination book so as to serve as a guide to you later .
12 He is therefore prepared to countenance a reduction in his real wage so as to stave off the threat of dismissal .
13 He issued the famous Tamworth Manifesto , nominally addressed to his constituents , but actually communicated to the London daily press so as to operate as a programme submitted to the whole electorate .
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