Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 This being so , specific rehabilitation programmes for people with mental disorder frequently use a therapeutic approach which practises and rehearses ordinary activities so as to help people regain confidence in managing the business of life .
2 Using reported experiences , we aimed to draw together good practice and make recommendations to the organisations on how best to manage secondments so as to help secondees adapt more rapidly to their new jobs and , in due course , to the return of their former posts .
3 This process usually involved the gradual and haphazard addition of side-streets and lanes so as to provide access to land beyond the immediate frontages .
4 It is useful to use this opportunity to expand the discussion to take into account outside factors such as rising interest rates etc. and to ask students to explain why a comparatively modest increase in the proportion of debt finance leads to the change in interest charges experienced by Belper .
5 One can feel the painter , at first with gestures that are almost childish , and later like a strong , fully grown man , emptying his body of energy and liquids so as to leave traces to prove that he had physically existed .
6 First , marriage as a legal institution developed , I submit , as an essential legal first step towards amassing wealth and power by uniting partners with these attributes and endowing with legitimacy their heirs so as to guarantee inheritance according to articulated and certain principles .
7 They acknowledged the stressfulness of the family situation but wanted help toward removing the stresses rather than to have George removed from the home .
8 Winter smogs are essentially polluted fogs , so there have been a number of occasions when they have been seeded with dry ice or silver iodide at certain airports so as to allow aircraft to land safely .
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