Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grudgingly , he would grant all requests so as to cease the torture inflicted on his friends . |
| 2 | Economic life moves in cycles of peaks and troughs , and we must take advantage of the peaks so as to withstand the pressures of the troughs . |
| 3 | The product is a file manager and full-screen text editor that emulates IBM Corp 's ISPF/PDF on the mainframe , and the new release includes complete ISPF/PDF emulation , integration with Micro Focus Plc 's Cobol Workbench , and compatibility with all micro Cobol compilers so as to bring the ISPF mainframe programming environment to personal computers running MS-DOS or OS/2 . |
| 4 | On and on they travelled , rattling appallingly fast over the rutted roads so as to outstrip the pilgrims who followed them out of each town and village . |
| 5 | The advice suggested : ‘ we must try , by adopting a uniformly more robust and aggressive approach , to recover some lost ground ’ and accused the Divisional Court ‘ almost invariably ’ of looking for errors or ambiguities so as to upset the determinations of adjudicators . |
| 6 | The best remedy to all such difficulties is not to harbour grievances silently but to raise the problems as they arise and to deal with them before they get out of control . |
| 7 | for instance , it might be possible to introduce genes coding for specific receptors so as to alter the stomach or intestinal lining and provide treatment for ulcers . |
| 8 | For many years it was thought that in the absence of express provision in the original constitution the continued equality of all shares was a fundamental condition which could not be abrogated by an alteration of the articles so as to allow the issue of shares preferential to those already issued . |
| 9 | The ( Moslem ) Democratic Action Party ( SDA ) , led by Izetbegovic , on March 25 called on all citizens to reject the division of the republic along ethnic lines alone and to accept the concept of a unitary state . |
| 10 | Many of us Christians have become extremely skilful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications . |
| 11 | It was a conventional menu but one intended , he felt , to please the guests rather than to demonstrate the ingenuity of the cook . |
| 12 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 13 | and eased Boardwalk away from the rails so as to take the leader in the final furlong . |
| 14 | The standard solution to this ‘ data-collecting problem ’ would be the one adopted by Lavandera herself in her 1975 study , of structuring interview questions so as to encourage the appearance of linguistic contexts which required the subjunctive ( cf. 7.2 ) . |
| 15 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 16 | After which she goes off to join the other hens , leaving the male to incubate the eggs alone and to lead the chicks away from the scrape to a safe and secret hideaway . |
| 17 | I look to those responsible , including local authorities , to use these resources wisely and to improve the value for money in the services they buy . |
| 18 | Given that the implications are so profound , however , there is an urgent need to consider ways in which data from the 1991 census and vital registration can be linked in more illuminating ways so as to examine the phenomenon of the unoccupied in more depth . |
| 19 | After the British had signed an armistice with the Vichy administration , a number of Gaullist " explosions " ( the most celebrated of which was a stormy interview between de Gaulle and the British minister of state in Cairo , Oliver Lyttelton ) forced a modification of the armistice terms so as to accommodate the General 's objections . |
| 20 | A person drafting terms for a business dealing in any goods which might be regarded as falling into this category should bear in mind the R & B Customs Brokers decision , and the Consumer Transactions ( Restriction on Statements ) Order and draft any exclusions so as to avoid the commission of an offence under the order . |
| 21 | For any given demand for money , they seek to adjust interest rates so as to make the demand for money equal to the target money supply . |
| 22 | If , for example , the Gnat 's Water Brewery , which operates three inns in a small country village , wishes to close and sell off one of these inns so as to improve the profitability of its remaining inns , it may insert a restrictive covenant into the conditions of sale of the inn in question , whereby the purchaser of the inn covenants not to use the premises as licensed premises . |
| 23 | In pluralist theory bureaucratic agencies not only orchestrate group pressures so as to influence the development of public policy indirectly . |
| 24 | To say the very least , there is a suspicion that the legal system has been devised to suit the lawyers rather than to protect the public . |
| 25 | Typically , the teacher is called upon to implement the second order realization of new ideas in the form of teaching materials rather than to consider the ideas themselves and how they key in with his own experience of teaching . |
| 26 | It must be stressed at the outset , lest the importance of this form of liability be exaggerated , that the plaintiffs lost their case because the predominant purpose of the embargo was to promote the interests of the union members rather than to injure the plaintiffs , but their Lordships made it clear that if the predominant purpose of a combination is to injure another in his trade or business or in his other legitimate interests then , if damage results , the tort of conspiracy exists . |
| 27 | In that case also , the state in principle sets management an objective and imposes constraints so as to achieve the result . |
| 28 | Remote sensing , engineering geophysics and hydrogeological techniques are being used in a study in south-east Zimbabwe aimed at improving the success rate of boreholes and dug wells so as to improve the provision of a reliable supply of clean water to rural communities in developing countries , particularly in semiarid tropical regions where droughts are frequent . |
| 29 | This is simply a term for the major reflex which has the power to control all the other reflexes so as to direct the body in a coordinated and balanced way . |
| 30 | The Guinean government , which supports the project in return for royalties from the ore sales , is seeking to redraw the Heritage Site boundaries so as to exclude the mine area . |