Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although counting of applications continues , the issue is 1.75 times oversubscribed so far , forcing financial advisers last night to ‘ claw back ’ shares promised to overseas institutions so as to meet small investor demand . |
| 2 | Although counting of applications continues , the issue is 1.75 times oversubscribed so far , forcing financial advisers last night to ‘ claw back ’ shares promised to overseas institutions so as to meet small investor demand . |
| 3 | To be successful , entrepreneurs need to be able to identify unmet private needs and preferences which an interest group can fulfil , and then work to extend the group 's ‘ bread and butter ’ activities so as to achieve public goods bonuses for their membership . |
| 4 | In McEllistrim v The Ballymacelligott Co-op Agricultural & Dairy Society [ 1919 ] AC 548 a co-operative society had changed its rules so as to prevent any member from selling milk other than to the society . |
| 5 | The interest earned net of costs is used to purchase futures and options contracts so as to obtain maximum exposure in each quarter to any upward movement in the FT-SE Index . |
| 6 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
| 7 | The widening or duplication of tunnels to obviate one way working of wide barges so as to avoid long delays . |
| 8 | Where one such lift is used the dock and load would be balanced by a suspended weight but two such lifts would generally be arranged to work simultaneously in opposite directions so as to balance each other . |
| 9 | The major national breweries themselves began to either acquire or be acquired by non-brewing companies so as to form larger conglomerates such as Allied-Lyons ( formed when Allied Breweries took over the catering group J. Lyons in 1978 ) , Grand Metropolitan ( formed when Grand Met Hotels took over Truman Hanbury and Buxton in 1971 and Watney Mann in 1972 ) and Imperial ( formed when Imperial Tobacco acquired Courage Breweries in 1972 ) . |
| 10 | Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals so as to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction . |
| 11 | The crucial area of debate centres upon whether the signals from ecologically fragile and marginal areas will reach institutions and governments so as to induce appropriate innovations for those areas . |
| 12 | It may be read in the conventional order , with or without the final section of ‘ dispensable ’ chapters , or in a shuffled order , interpolating the ‘ dispensable ’ chapters according to the author 's directives so as to have fresh perspectives on the events described . |
| 13 | According to Lao National Radio on that day , the conference would " examine thoroughly the performance of each financial agency and locality ; evaluate correctly the achievements made by the financial sector over the past 15 years ; and assess the current economic and financial situation and remaining problems so as to find effective measures to open the way for socio-economic development with new mechanisms " . |
| 14 | However , it may be that once privatised , these pressures are tempered by pressures to show increased profits so as to justify higher dividends and enhance market prices . |
| 15 | If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations . |
| 16 | We plan to install one of the ‘ Amstrad ’ draft printers so as to provide some draft printing capability as soon as possible , and to consider further the possibility of replacing the heavily-used Epson printer next financial year . |
| 17 | However , they have consistently opted to eke out a living by temporary migration and wage labour rather than leaving in such numbers so as to exceed natural population growth , and thereby ease the pressure . |
| 18 | What is important is to learn by our mistakes so as to avoid future problems . |
| 19 | In the patrilineal extended families of the Nambudiri landlord aristocrats only the eldest son was allowed to marry with full Vedic rites so as to produce legitimate children . |
| 20 | However , if each enterprise is a different company , each company being in itself a separate and distinct legal entity and thus taxed separately , the balancing of profit and loss between the enterprises so as to minimize overall tax liability can not be achieved . |