Example sentences of "as [to-vb] [prep] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | R&D agreements and specialization agreements between UK firms can be drafted in such a way as to fall outside the Restrictive Trade Practices Act 1976 : otherwise firms might be able to appeal to the permissive stance of EC law to override any difficulties with the UK rules . |
| 2 | Dangerous driving is usually reserved for intentional dangerous driving or where it can be proved the defendant was driving in such a way as to fall within the new definition of ‘ driving dangerously ’ in section 2A ( 1 ) to ( 4 ) of the Road Traffic Act 1988 . |
| 3 | Once this level is set , any change in the output voltage , rise or fall , due to a variation in the load current , for instance , is sensed by the error detector which then causes the error amplifier input to deviate from the reference level , and the resulting output adjusts the series control element resistance in such a direction as to compensate for the initial change . |
| 4 | Having to repeat things constantly , as well as to listen to the same comments over and over again , can tax the patience of all but a saint . |
| 5 | On these grounds , Acts of Parliament which inadvertently contradict elements of Community law are modified so as to comply with the European Communities Act . |
| 6 | The environmental assessment prepared for the private Bill has been updated so as to comply with the new Standing Order . |
| 7 | The Lewisham Council went so far as to apply to the High Court for an Order of Mandamus requiring the Commissioner of Police to seek to have the march banned . |
| 8 | How could minute quantities of an injected peptide be guided to and then enter the appropriate neuron so as to code for the new memory ? |
| 9 | It is the most promising ‘ global language ’ candidate , or at least the most likely to permeate other languages so thoroughly as to amount to the same thing . |
| 10 | The House of Lords held that it did not : since the essence of dangerous driving was negligence , a driver should only be convicted of manslaughter if his driving was so bad as to amount to the gross negligence required under the third head of involuntary manslaughter ( see below ) . |
| 11 | But the most preposterous law of all , a law so pointless as to scamper along the outer margins of the surreal , is the Swedish one that requires motorists to drive with their headlights on during the daytime , even on the sunniest summer afternoon . |
| 12 | If we are habitually pulling back our heads , so as to interfere with the Primary Control , then the implications are very serious indeed . |
| 13 | " that it is desirable that before anything is done as to interfere in the internal arrangement of the School , that application be made to the Goldsmiths ' Company for an additional grant . " |
| 14 | The address to send stuff to is DR BUTCHER ( MD ) , COMMODORE FORCE , So , if Nurse Enema would be so kind as to wheel in the first vict … erm patient , I 'll sharpen my instruments . |
| 15 | Held , allowing the appeal and the cross-appeal , that under the terms of the mortgage and other deeds the defendants were entitled to recover their actual costs , charges and expenses except for any costs that had not been reasonably incurred or were unreasonable in amount ; that both litigation and non-litigation costs could be referred to a taxing for quantification ; that the defendants were contractually entitled to payment on an indemnity basis as defined by R.S.C. , Ord. 62 , r. 12(2) ; that the court 's discretion as to the basis of taxation of a mortgagee 's costs , charges and expenses should normally be exercised so as to correspond with the contractual entitlement ; and that , accordingly , the master had power to order that the contractual costs , charges and expenses and the costs incurred in the litigation be taxed on an indemnity basis including those costs ordered to be taxed on a standard basis ( post , pp. 735E–F , 736B–C , 737E–F , 739A–C , 741H — 742D , E–H ) . |