Example sentences of "so [conj] to increase [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | American industrialists , critical of the performance of the occupation , had urged a reversal of policy so as to increase Japan 's capacity to stand on her own feet and not to receive excessive subsidies from the United States . |
| 2 | In contrast , an alternative approach is to invest so as to increase production . |
| 3 | The EC had , among other things , ( i ) financed the construction of a road through one of Zaïre 's forests so as to increase production at a meat processing plant ; ( ii ) financed timber extraction projects in Equatorial Guinea designed to quadruple timber production over the next four years ; and ( iii ) financed the Carajás iron ore project in the state of Pará , Brazil , which had destroyed much of the Amazon rainforest , had led to the deaths of 1,000 Indians after the opening up of their habitat 10 years earlier and had consumed 4,000,000 tonnes of charcoal each year to smelt the iron ore into pig iron . |
| 4 | Competitive advantage can be gained from exploiting information at the strategic level so as to increase business efficiency or to highlight areas in the organisation which are particularly strong or weak , and thus lead to new business strategies . |
| 5 | Organizations are seen as rational instruments for realizing explicit goals , with different parts that can be modified so as to increase efficiency ( Gouldner 1959 ) . |