Example sentences of "[vb mod] be [verb] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing to suggest that that power to sue should be limited so as to exclude the proceedings before the court , save by the nature of the trade union itself , and that did not exclude a claim in respect of a libel ‘ calculated to arouse doubts and suspicions in the minds of members [ of the union itself ] , and so to destroy the cohesion and will to act of the union : ’ per Scott L.J . |
| 2 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 3 | The scope of L Detachment should be extended so as to cover the functions of all existing Special Service units existing [ sic ] in the Middle East , as well as any other Special Service tasks which may require carrying out . |
| 4 | We welcome the advice that new retail development should be sited so as to reduce the number and length of car journeys and to provide for those who do not have access to a car . |
| 5 | The letters should be sufficiently large and should be placed so as to cater for patients with poor vision . |
| 6 | In any notification case of this kind the local planning authority will be given an opportunity to decide whether , in their view , the proposal should be advertised so as to give the public a chance to comment , and also to discuss with the department ways in which the proposal might be amended to overcome any objections to the proposed development . |
| 7 | One main broadcasting organization should continue to be funded by ‘ the corpus of users ’ ( that is to say , the licence fee , or something like it ) , and broadcasting should be structured so as to encourage competition in good programming rather than for audience numbers ( BRU , 1985 ) . |
| 8 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 9 | Above all , the legal effect of the terms should be clear and certain , and they should be drafted so as to avoid ambiguity . |
| 10 | This , it is proposed , should be reformulated so as to replace the expression ‘ merchantable quality ’ with ‘ acceptable quality ’ and to make it clear that it covers the fitness of the goods for all their common purposes , their safety , durability , freedom from minor defects and appearance and finish . |
| 11 | On appeal by the taxpayers , the Appellate Committee having heard the appeal but before judgment referred it to an enlarged Appellate Committee to determine the question whether the existing exclusionary rule relating to the construction of statutes should be relaxed so as to enable Hansard to be consulted as an aid to construction : — |
| 12 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) that , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , the rule excluding reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction should be relaxed so as to permit such reference where ( a ) legislation was ambiguous or obscure or led to absurdity , ( b ) the material relied upon consisted of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as was necessary to understand such statements and their effect and ( c ) the statements relied upon were clear ( post , pp. 1039C , G , 1040B , D–E , 1042C–D , H — 1043A , 1056A–C , 1061E–F , 1063F–G ) . |
| 13 | I therefore reach the conclusion , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , that the exclusionary rule should be relaxed so as to permit reference to Parliamentary materials where ( a ) legislation is ambiguous or obscure , or leads to an absurdity ; ( b ) the material relied upon consists of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as is necessary to understand such statements and their effect ; ( c ) the statements relied upon are clear . |
| 14 | In other words , the principle is that ‘ within a fixed budget , health care resources should be allocated so as to achieve the greatest aggregate of well-being for patients . ’ |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 17 | Central was the requirement that internal tariff ( customs duty ) , quota and non-tariff barriers to trade in goods should be abolished so as to create an enlarged European economic space . |
| 18 | The knowledge that you possess must be displayed so as to show the examiner that you have the capacity of logical thought and can build further on your present state of development and knowledge . |
| 19 | Pipelines must be fitted so as to maintain continuous flow at turbulence producing levels with valves , glands , seals , junctions and outlets so designed and positioned as to avoid causing ‘ traps ’ where food deposits can accumulate or cleaning solutions can stagnate . |
| 20 | Information must be focused so as to serve precise management tasks . |
| 21 | Being lower in rank than the founding treaties , the provisions of Community legislation must be interpreted so as to conform with the provisions of the treaties , and they may be annulled if they are incompatible with them . |
| 22 | Lessons must be designed so as to prevent the learner making mistakes . |
| 23 | The outcome of State Department deliberations in the first four months of 1949 was that the character of the occupation must be changed so as to afford the Japanese more legitimate freedom of action . |
| 24 | In this chapter we shall briefly look at formal organisation structure and consider a variety of views of how this structure might be established so as to optimise the efficiency of the organisation . |
| 25 | Suppose , for example , that the indirect tax structure could be reformed by introducing differential rates of tax on different commodities ( so that , say , necessities bear a lower percentage ) , and that this could be done so as to make everyone better off ( or no worse off ) . |
| 26 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 27 | The focus of attention is upon whether the national law could be interpreted so as to give effect to Community law obligations . |
| 28 | Although all four strategies may be separated so as to discuss their major characteristics , in practice countries commonly adopt a combination of two or more types ; ( Murley , 1991 ; UN ECE , 1987 ) . |
| 29 | Such an order may be made so as to ensure that there is a home for the children of the marriage . |
| 30 | It so happened that in 1885 a Royal Commission had been set up " to investigate and report upon , the condition of the blind in the United Kingdom , the various systems of education of the blind … the employments open to and suitable for the blind and the means by which education may be extended so as to increase the number of blind persons qualified for such employments . " |