Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [subord] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) . |
| 2 | With effect from the general election of 1965 West German electoral law was amended so as to impose stricter limits on variations in constituency magnitudes . |
| 3 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
| 4 | The words used will be interpreted according to the so-called " golden rule " : they will be given their ordinary grammatical and literal meaning unless that produces absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy , when the literal meaning can be modified so as to avoid that absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy . |
| 5 | It can then be located so as to provide convenient armchair control . |
| 6 | Having obtained the poles of , the relevant physical transfer function is deduced by rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane and a network is synthesised so as to generate that transfer function . |
| 7 | Aircraft maintenance function would be considered today as having five generations of development , as follows ( see Fig. 5 ) : |
| 8 | Due diligence for asset sales is generally cheaper and quicker than for share sales as the investigation covers the specific assets that have been selected rather than investigating hidden liabilities . |
| 9 | It is a key enabler for this , but only if people use it as a way of changing the way business is done rather than merchandising existing systems and organisations . |
| 10 | The most important thing I learnt was that the lawyer 's job in local government is to help get things done rather than provide elegant reasons for doing nothing . |
| 11 | It has been claimed that fundholding ‘ has revealed rather than created these variations . ’ |
| 12 | Most pregnant mothers are told to relax and put their feet up at some point every day — and many of them had done so while watching these television programmes . |
| 13 | From this perspective , in imposing negligence liability the court can be seen merely as upholding private rights , and that is hardly an ‘ intrusion ’ . |
| 14 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 15 | The records typically understate the concentration of wealth , for they rely on individual declarations which are manipulated and presented so as to minimise apparent wealth holdings . |
| 16 | She had tried to make a pipe once by hollowing out the pith , spongy like the white stuff inside a peeled rush , carving holes with an awl , but the pipe had never done more than make thin sounds magnifying her breathing . |
| 17 | Later he denied having ever attended committee meetings of the Officers ' Union , or indeed having done more than establish four branches for them at Glasgow , Leith , Liverpool and Hull before resigning in September 189I . |
| 18 | Carrie would have died rather than say these things but Nick would n't be embarrassed : he could say them without turning a hair ! |
| 19 | Our audit has been performed so as to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material error . |
| 20 | Like the Dragoons on the pasture , Ziegler had retreated rather than face unequal odds . |
| 21 | Using the Churchill amendment as a model , the words ‘ exposed to view ’ could be deleted and replaced so as to limit such exclusion to ‘ any part of that matter which is neither visible nor accessible to persons under the age of 18 , or which , if so accessible , is not kept in a wrapping which , while intact , prevents that matter from being seen ’ . |
| 22 | But his whole account can perhaps be understood so as to avoid such objections . |
| 23 | Indeed throughout humanities disciplines , after thirty-odd years of this kind of research , there are embarrassingly few books and articles which can be confidently pointed out as passing both tests . |
| 24 | Heads , deputies and curriculum leaders shared rather than led each school 's preparations . |
| 25 | NAB has decided that the 1983–4 pool should be distributed so as to accord equal treatment to the polytechnics and the colleges of higher education . |
| 26 | Here a transfer price of £50 has been set so as to give each division some of the profit . |
| 27 | Information must be focused so as to serve precise management tasks . |
| 28 | That as the Rules of the Supreme Court took effect subject to any relevant statutory provision ( in this case the Carriage of Goods by Road Act 1965 ) , Cargolux having failed to make out their claim , leave to serve outside the jurisdiction had to be set aside as had all proceedings under the fourth party notice against Lies . |
| 29 | If this is not possible batteries should not be pulled out as hooked terminal segments may catch the springs and pull them out ( ruining the contact and rendering a none-too-cheap dealer repair necessary ) . |
| 30 | Deputy secretary Anthea Rose has stepped in as acting chief executive while a replacement is found . |