Example sentences of "[adj] [noun pl] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In December 1757 he tried to excuse himself ‘ as my abode is at such distance from the place where the Royal Society hold their weekly meetings as to render it not only inconvenient , but unsafe for me to attend them in the winter season. , A month later Ellis countered with , ‘ I scarce think it possible that Mr. Miller should have no one friend in the Society to send him word and , indeed , I had told Rivington to tell Miller I would be glad to discuss the matter at Fulham , and Miller ignored it . ’ |
| 2 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 3 | However , when we come to more details considerations — such as exactly where this ‘ golden age ’ is to be located in real historical time — then we are confronted with such a disorderly jumble of datemarks and vague historical allusions as to allow for wide margins of disagreement even among dedicated ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts . |
| 4 | In Waugh v British Rail Board [ 1980 ] AC 521 the House of Lords decided that where a report , following an inquiry , had been prepared as much to prevent further accidents as to obtain legal advice about potential claims , it was not privileged because its sole or dominant purpose was not submission to a legal adviser in view of litigation . |
| 5 | As one jaundiced critic put it in 1733 : " A set of brocaded tradesmen cloathed in purple and fine linen , and faring sumptuously every day , raising to themselves immense wealth , so as to marry their daughters to the first rank , and leave their sons such estates as to enable them to live in the same degree . |
| 6 | This is not the place to elaborate upon why the educational system we have inherited can be described as men 's education or why , even in areas like adult and community education in which women outnumber men as students , and are employed in considerable numbers as part-time tutors and volunteers , the structures in which we operate are so effectively well grounded in male power and male values as to appear inevitable . |
| 7 | Lord Lane said it would be unlawful to detain a child ‘ for such period or periods or in such circumstances as to take it outside the realm of reasonable parental discipline ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where a coroner is informed that the body of a person ( ‘ the deceased ’ ) is lying within his district and there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; ( b ) has died a sudden death of which the cause is unknown ; or ( c ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act , then … the coroner shall as soon as practicable hold an inquest into the death of the deceased either with or , subject to subsection ( 3 ) below , without a jury . |
| 9 | ‘ Nothing in this section shall be construed as authorising the coroner to dispense with an inquest in any case where there is reasonable cause to suspect that the deceased — ( a ) has died a violent or an unnatural death ; or ( b ) has died in prison or in such a place or in such circumstances as to require an inquest under any other Act . |
| 10 | Clause 1(2) ( b ) defines a mutiny as where two or more prisoners ’ collectively resist , impede or disobey any exercise of lawful authority in the prison in such circumstances as to make their conduct subversive of order in the prison . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Where an unpaid seller has made part delivery of the goods , he may exercise his lien or right of retention on the remainder , unless such part delivery has been made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to waive the lien or right of retention . ’ |
| 12 | Part delivery to the buyer does not prevent the remainder being stopped in transit unless the part delivery is made under such circumstances as to show an agreement to give up possession of the whole of the goods . |
| 13 | The outbreak of the Korean War in June 1950 focused world attention on a remote peninsula in East Asia , which had never previously been the centre of a crisis of such dimensions as to threaten the possibility of a world war . |
| 14 | National courts have the duty to interpret and apply national law in such ways as to ensure that a real and effective sanction , i.e. a sanction satisfying the principles of proportionality , effectiveness and non discrimination or comparability , is imposed . |
| 15 | Second , because governments and ministers still retain political objectives and motivations , they will attempt to guard jealously information within their purview and to use it in such ways as to influence and direct public opinion . |
| 16 | The name Yahweh appears in the Bible from the earliest times ( Genesis 4:1 ) and in such ways as to imply that men both knew and used it ( e.g. Genesis 4:26 ; 14:22 ) . |
| 17 | This chapter explores the possibility of defining these assembly relationships in such ways as to provide a desired function . |
| 18 | The text of the cable was : Bodyline bowling has assumed such proportions as to menace the best interests of the game , making protection of the body by the batsmen the main consideration . |
| 19 | It is far better to look upon the purpose of such negotiations as to define the risks which each party is willing to accept , and what benefits or rewards he requires from the other party in order to accept those risks . |
| 20 | Prior to 1910 it was by no means clear either that Labour would replace the Liberals or that it would move So far ahead of these rivals as to reduce them to marginal sects . |
| 21 | ( N.C. , 1979 ) where it was said that persons charged with serious disciplinary offences had a right to call any evidence which was likely to assist in establishing vital facts in issue , that the chairman had a discretion to refuse to call witnesses to prevent the accused calling so many witnesses as to make the system unworkable but that fairness demanded that there be a right to cross-examine witnesses . |
| 22 | Further , he suggested that the principle of the exemption of the civilian population from being an intentional object of warfare had been so whittled down during the Second World War and in post-1945 treaties as to cease to offer reliable guidance except in the most unambiguous circumstances . |
| 23 | This is that the evaluation of a company 's prospects is ultimately a matter of subjective judgment , and hence what ‘ economists frequently characterize as quantifiable risks are in reality uncertainties of such large and incalculable proportions as to intimidate investors and send them scurrying to the seemingly safer ground of follow-the-leader ’ . |
| 24 | N.B. : We have only listed a few Zionist atrocities as to list them all , as with the crimes of the IRA , would fill a book or two . |
| 25 | That , however , was only half his story : in the course of his career he held so many ecclesiastical offices as to provoke a constant outcry prebends in Hereford and London , the chancellorship at Exeter , the archdeaconry of Worcester , and in the course of 1294 no fewer than fourteen churches ! |
| 26 | Unfortunately it is often the case that writers do not allow themselves to be so free in autobiographical disclosures as to say exactly how they felt on seeing some work of art . |
| 27 | The great crusades of the 1880s over child prostitution sometimes answered as much to middle-class anxieties as to gross sexual exploitation . |
| 28 | The same rules as to service apply and the written statement of service to be filed at court must include details as with service on respondents ( see 5 above ) . |
| 29 | Of the 10% or so that do not measure up , many are as likely to merge with stronger firms as to alter their investment strategies . |
| 30 | Do n't be so puffed up with your own perfections as to imagine that because other people allow themselves liberties you can not take , therefore they must be wicked . |