Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb mod] [verb] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some authorities require a restriction on the number of weeks a buyer may purchase so as to avoid the possibility of permanent use by a single owner . |
| 2 | Therefore , as the firm takes on more of the cheaper form of financing , debt , the cost of equity should rise so as to offset the advantage and maintain a constant cost of capital regardless of the debt — equity ratio . |
| 3 | Although it is argued that the total value of the firm will remain constant , it is shown that this will be so because the price of equity will fall so as to offset the impact of using debt . |
| 4 | A county council will decide tomorrow whether to appeal against the Government 's decision to cap the authority . |
| 5 | The exchange will decide today whether to restore short-selling in Bond Corp . |
| 6 | The West could do worse than to base its policy towards the Middle East on that aspiration . |
| 7 | Since anthropology is so much involved with recreating alien belief-worlds , with all the varied and competing value-systems that exist in other cultures , just as in our own , literary critics who would wish to acquire more flexibility in dealing with that collision of view-points which forms the basic experience of drama could do worse than to consult the anthropologists . |
| 8 | If the revolution is to be successful , then this shift will spread so as to include the majority of the relevant scientific community , leaving only a few dissenters . |
| 9 | The system must operate so as to protect patients ' rights and ensure their civil liberties are not denied them |
| 10 | The idea that some form of market will act so as to restrain corporate managers from abusing their discretion by failing to serve the interests of the shareholders is flawed in two ways . |
| 11 | In fact , the Government has chosen to provide in the TURER Bill that the employee may object to the transfer , but such objection will operate so as to terminate the employment and the transferor will not be regarded as having dismissed the employee . |