Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road . |
| 2 | We had decided to return by service bus in the other direction so as to complete a round trip . |
| 3 | The version of the National Institute model used has been modified , with earlier ESRC support so as to provide an extended modelling of the major financial linkages in the economy . |
| 4 | These were also modified by linker addition so as to contain a BamHI recognition sequence . |
| 5 | The concerns of Scott J were echoed by Harman J in Systems Reliability Holdings Plc v Smith [ 1990 ] IRLR 377 where the judge concluded ( in a case where he was concerned with an express restriction on the use and disclosure of , in particular the knowledge acquired by the defendant during his employment of the ability to modify an old computer by a small addition so as to make a new product of significant commercial value ) that the controversial part of Neill LJ 's judgment did not bind him to hold that there can not be in an express restrictive of covenant any restriction on information held by an ex-employee which is not a trade secret or something similar . |
| 6 | The internalized dialogue that it brings acts on the mind so as to generate a continuing cycle of reflection and intellectual advance . |
| 7 | ‘ Real ’ Christianity , in Clarkson 's words , depended upon ‘ a total change of heart or of mind so as to produce a corresponding change of Life ’ . |
| 8 | As a result , the scrutiny of the estimates in the Committee of Supply became a formal vote to reduce the money for this or that department by a nominal figure so as to permit a general attack on the government 's policy in that field . |
| 9 | As has been said , a decision was made to abandon high-order averaging by the instrument so as to obtain a full record of the variations in measurement . |
| 10 | 2.15 Section 3 of the Administration of Justice Act 1982 amended the 1976 Act so as to insert a new s1A , which provides that an action under the Act may consist of or include a claim for damages for bereavement in the case of causes of action accruing after 1 January 1983 . |
| 11 | Mr George Gardiner ( C. Reigate ) asked how was Mr Hurd going to explain to ethnic minorities already in this country the strict entry controls on their relatives ‘ while at the same time amending the law so as to create a preferential class of treatment for the Hong Kong Chinese ’ ? |
| 12 | Indeed , we have delayed publication so as to incorporate a large part of the ASH detailed brief on the subject in the paper . |
| 13 | In our system , we upset the pattern of tension in the epidermis by cutting so as to create a free epidermal edge . |
| 14 | As these changes in electrical potential may be very small in relation to fluctuations in ongoing EEG activity the usual procedure is to use a computer to sum the potentials during the half-second or so following each presentation of the evoking stimulus so as to produce an average value . |
| 15 | Finally , the corpse was tightly wrapped in cerecloth , a waxed linen , and the seams further sealed with beeswax so as to establish a near airtight condition . |
| 16 | Here , it is enough to note that the adoption , largely at Owen 's prompting , by the trade union movement of the strategic objective of organising manufacturing industry in industrial co-operatives , of adopting Co-operation for its own sake so as to make a revolutionary change in the constitutional structure of society , ended almost as soon as it had begun . |
| 17 | Greenbaum and Quirk posit a principle of end-focus to account for the tendency to process information' so as to achieve a linear presentation from low to high information value' . |
| 18 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 19 | This should be sufficient to put a purchaser on notice so that he insists on paying the purchase monies to two trustees or a trust corporation so as to obtain a good receipt ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) . |
| 20 | They came on foot , in horse-drawn carts , by bicycle and by bus , arriving early in the morning so as to have a full day 's prayer . |
| 21 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 22 | ‘ The only direction the Government gives is that BR should operate their passenger railway system so as to provide a public service which is comparable generally with that operated at April 1 1988 , ’ he wrote . |
| 23 | The best argument for the statue being a fixture was its careful siting in the West Lawn so as to form an integral part of the architectural design of the west elevation of the house . |
| 24 | ‘ if it is demonstrated by reference to authority binding on this court , or by reference to clearly established principles of the common law , that the appellants were rightly held to have committed the actus reus of contempt of court , this court can not apply directly the terms of the Convention so as to reach a different conclusion . |
| 25 | I 'm quite sure she did n't believe a word of this , but in Oxford it is considered good manners to take an adversarial position so as to generate an interesting conversation and allow both parties to display their intelligence , knowledge and eloquence . |