Example sentences of "[noun sg] so as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I encourage the Minister to do the double by restoring the funding so as to enable much-needed house building and repairs to go ahead , and at the same time give the necessary financial boost to the devastated building and construction industry ? |
| 2 | All the advice we have read assumes that the wife will claim a refund of tax on her low income , rather than share a husband 's income so as to take full advantage of allowances . |
| 3 | The fact that the elderly parents acted reasonably and did nothing wrong and yet entered into an agreement , the ramifications of which they did not appreciate , did not affect the creditor so as to afford equitable relief to the parents . |
| 4 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 5 | It consists primarily of : concentrating the construction of turbo-alternators in the new Alsthom-Atlantique group , with a production capacity of about 10000 MW per year ; concentrating all industrial resources for the fabrication of the boilers in Framatome , with a production capacity of eight units a year ; the CEA has also bought out Westinghouse 's share in Framatome 's equity so as to have complete control of the further development of the technology , the licence for which expired in 1982 . |
| 6 | This ‘ technology transfer ’ is a process of innovation , but it involves spreading existing technology from sectors where it is conventionally used throughout industry so as to provide added value and competitive advantage . |
| 7 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 8 | It is suggested that in the context of a monogamous union , adultery was elevated to the status of a sin ( or indeed a crime ) and grounds for divorce so as to reinforce this concept of marriage and , in the absence of birth control , to prevent the social ‘ untidiness ’ caused by the production of children not the product of a couple married to each other , with all the inheritance and support complications which could follow . |
| 9 | It was done with the co-operation and permission of the Nature Conservancy Council so as to avoid ecological damage , and I would like to point out politely that it is a private road . |
| 10 | But exceptions have had to be made for words like prie-Dieu ( prayer-stool ) , which will remain without an x in the plural so as to avoid blasphemous implications . |
| 11 | It is a useful authorial device to offer readers an unheroic hero so as to escape romantic cliché . |
| 12 | They could not rely on support from all of their members and the TUC nor could they call out the membership so as to hit other newspapers and so bring indirect pressure to bear on Shah . |
| 13 | If there is only one adult resident , a discount of 25 per cent can be claimed ( s79 ) ; it is important therefore that if husband and wife cease to live together each of them should notify the local authority that separation has taken place so as to end joint liability and for the remaining resident spouse to claim the discount ( if applicable ) . |
| 14 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 15 | Will my hon. Friend speak to our right hon. Friend the Chancellor about introducing financial incentives similar to those for unleaded fuel so as to encourage speedier acceptance of a lower-sulphur fuel ? |
| 16 | I lay with my limbs stretched out as stiff as though rigor mortis had set in , and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry . |
| 17 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 18 | ( c ) Restrictions on partners ' authority ( See Clauses 6 ( in relation to accounts ) and 18 ( generally ) ) No body of partners will wish any one of its number to have unlimited authority to incur liabilities in their firm name so as to make all members potentially liable even in respect of transactions which form no part of the normal business of the firm . |
| 19 | The practice is for the second copy of the Request to be retained in the files of the Central Authority as a record of its action in the matter , and for the second copy of the document itself to be returned with the completed Certificate of service so as to eliminate any doubt as to which document is covered by the Certificate . |
| 20 | This cerebral dominance hypothesis is able to explain the results of an experiment by Barton , Goodglass and Shai ( 1965 ) who presented three-letter words in a vertical orientation so as to minimise putative scanning mechanisms . |
| 21 | There 's a ‘ chat-and-pat ’ service ; staff call your hound by name , and tiptoe past your room at night so as to let sleeping dogs lie ; your dog 's photograph is taken in the hotel ; the hotel manager appears for a final ‘ wave-and-wag ’ ; there 's a VIP service for show-winning dogs ; and a discount for families whose dogs are better behaved than the owners ! |
| 22 | Upon taking office as Prime Minister in October 1948 , Yoshida summarised the priorities of his administration as fostering democracy in Japanese society , encouraging the Japanese economy so as to secure greater self-sufficiency , and restoring Japan 's status in the world . |
| 23 | In typical elitist manner Schumpeter describes these notions as both unrealistic and dangerous ; but a major difference from classical elite theorists is that Schumpeter wants to redefine democracy so as to preserve some recognition of the fact of popular participation and to take account of the inevitably limited nature of this participation . |
| 24 | Dean Acheson informed various American ambassadors in late April 1949 that the Japanese government had to be given more authority so as to re-establish civilian government properly . |
| 25 | An application by the council to amend its statement of claim so as to plead special damage was refused by French J. on 31 July 1991 . |
| 26 | But , as we shall see , in Marxist scholarship there are those who have modified Marx original theory so as to accommodate these changes in a way which is consistent with the original insight about the determined nature of the locus of power in capitalist societies . |
| 27 | While wider economic considerations were relevant , the European rift between Six and Seven was a major factor in the American initiative for a reconstruction of the OEEC so as to allow non-European membership . |
| 28 | The problem is how to conduct economic policy so as to reconcile full employment and price stability . |
| 29 | The rules of the game , then , far from being set by society so as to ensure fair play for all , seemed to be set by the local authorities . |
| 30 | Most data collection and analysis was already available from previous research , and the aim here was to increase empirical and conceptual depth so as to allow critical engagement with current policy debate over housing provision in Britain . |