Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun] so [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the other hand it was necessary to acquire an elementary understanding of the issues involved , examine previous work on measuring the required parameters and in particular learn something about canopy structure so as to assess the extent to which it would need to be taken into consideration . |
| 2 | The errors found involved reporting abstracts and correspondence as full papers ; co-authorship represented as sole authorship ; papers only tenuously ‘ in press ’ reported as having been published ; falsification of publication dates so as to appear within the review period ; and totally fabricated references . |
| 3 | The errors found involved reporting abstracts and correspondence as full papers ; co-authorship represented as sole authorship ; papers only tenuously ‘ in press ’ reported as having been published ; falsification of publication dates so as to appear within the review period ; and totally fabricated references . |
| 4 | 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially . |
| 5 | The only difference is that where the vaccine manufacturers use two strains of human flu viruses-one that grows well in hen 's eggs and the other with the currently circulating strain of flu virus so as to get the right antigens — the object in the latest work is to obtain a non-disease causing flu virus that will grow in humans but will also protect against the particular strain of wild type flu that is in circulation . |
| 6 | ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain . |
| 7 | This architecture will involve the use of numerical scores to encode the preferences of different system components , while still remaining ‘ consultative ’ in the realm of anaphor resolution so as to achieve the right balance between focusing and other types of knowledge . |
| 8 | She was not writing of slum life so as to shock the reader , or even indulging in nostalgia so as to entertain . |
| 9 | Sir : In her article ( 'The child as a piece of disposable property' , 2 October ) , Sue Wells argues for a change in adoption law so as to bring it nearer an open adoption system , whereby adopted children remain in contact with birth parents . |
| 10 | Applications research ( volume 2 ) embraces the fascinating world of ‘ expert systems ’ , in which human expertise in specific areas can be captured and manipulated in computing systems so as to provide problem-solving advice of high quality and intelligibility . |
| 11 | The Commission finally agreed on Dec. 21 , 1989 , after some years of often bitter disagreement , on a formula for determining whether cross-border corporate mergers within the EC should be subject to vetting by the Commissioner for competition policy so as to determine whether they would result in an unduly large market share for the newly merged companies ( for earlier drafts see p. 36310 ) . |
| 12 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 13 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 14 | Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces . |
| 15 | This allows borrowers more scope to time issues so as to take advantage of temporarily favourable patterns of interest rates such as would permit profitable swaps . |
| 16 | However , the major task of service development involved field level identification of needs and opportunities , followed by close liaison with staff at County Hall so as to shape and influence the normal planning of capital and recurrent programmes within , and beyond , the social services department . |
| 17 | In a speech on 17 December 1945 Kim stressed the necessity for creating a wide range of party organisations in factories , enterprises and villages with the formulation of suitable criteria for party membership so as to eliminate some of the dubious elements which had recently joined the party . |
| 18 | These were also modified by linker addition so as to contain a BamHI recognition sequence . |