Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You need to send your teacher to the top of the building so as to speed up his watch . |
| 2 | Comparable trends are not found among the second category , which includes those sites where the defences are apparently arbitrarily imposed on a straggling ribbon development or urban scatter so as to provide a small defended strongpoint astride the road . |
| 3 | There is statutory warrant for extending privilege so as to embrace reports , papers , etc. , published by order of a House ( Parliamentary Papers Act 1840 ) . |
| 4 | The report concluded that the pattern of courses and examinations below the level of OND lacked clarity and cohesion and that , consequently , there was a need to rationalize their provision so as to offer students a recognizable ladder of progression within clearly defined educational stages . |
| 5 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 6 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |
| 7 | Acrow Ltd. obtained an injunction to restrain an American company , S.I. , from acting in breach of contract so as to impede Acrow 's manufacture of machinery under licence from S.I.S.I. purported to ignore the injunction and instructed Rex Chainbelt , suppliers of components for Acrow 's process , to cease supply . |
| 8 | The dynamic process generating endogenous economies of scale leads exchanges to compete by being first off the mark in a particular contract so as to achieve a sufficiently high level of trading , and consequently liquidity , and thereby low transactions costs for the traders in that contract . |
| 9 | Can I encourage the Minister to do the double by restoring the funding so as to enable much-needed house building and repairs to go ahead , and at the same time give the necessary financial boost to the devastated building and construction industry ? |
| 10 | All the advice we have read assumes that the wife will claim a refund of tax on her low income , rather than share a husband 's income so as to take full advantage of allowances . |
| 11 | The fact that the elderly parents acted reasonably and did nothing wrong and yet entered into an agreement , the ramifications of which they did not appreciate , did not affect the creditor so as to afford equitable relief to the parents . |
| 12 | The wrongful act of the son in intercepting those letters , which could not have been anticipated by the creditor , was held not to affect the creditor so as to prevent it from enforcing the charge . |
| 13 | We had decided to return by service bus in the other direction so as to complete a round trip . |
| 14 | Would it not be preferable to broaden the defence of diminished responsibility so as to convert it into a defence of extreme emotional disturbance , applicable to both sexes ? |
| 15 | The latter idea is that organisations have spare capacity that can be brought into play so as to enable the company to comply with the demands of one group without requiring a damaging transfer from another . |
| 16 | It must show clearly and unequivocally the reasoning of the Community authority which adopted the measure so as to inform the persons concerned of the justification for the measure adopted and enable the Court of Justice to exercise its powers of review . |
| 17 | For instance , a limitation or exclusion of liability could be justified by a preamble or postscript to the clause explaining that its purpose is to limit liability so as to enable the person protected by it to obtain insurance cover , and thus keep its costs down : In order to enable the Seller to insure against its liability under this contract , the Seller 's liability in respect of any defect in the goods or any loss caused by such defect is limited to £n ; the Buyer must bear the risk of any loss in excess of £n and should insure against such loss . |
| 18 | In spheres of conduct such as these , where the risks are widely known , there are strong reasons for broadening the basis of criminal liability so as to encompass negligence . |
| 19 | Charles decided that the accused had the bank 's authority to draw the cheque so as to create a contract between the bank and the payee . |
| 20 | Some countries in particular periods have flexible wages and prices which , at times of unemployment , change so as to reduce the real value of wages . |
| 21 | I had come this way a hundred times , always varying my route so as to avoid making more of a track than a rabbit might do . |
| 22 | Worse still would have been for the republic to wriggle out of its predicament , most likely by appointing de Gaulle as an emergency premier so as to appease the army . |
| 23 | Let us assume that insiders are now willing to accept a real wage reduction so as to protect their jobs . |
| 24 | In all three cases the Court has stressed the gravity of revenge attacks and the danger of dissatisfied victims or their relatives taking the law into their own hands , and then found reasons to mitigate the sentence so as to allow the immediate release of the offender . |
| 25 | The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence . |
| 26 | The different interpretations are due to differences in the scope of almost with respect to certain of the semantic traits of kill : notice how the paraphrases match the interpretations simply by moving almost in the sentence so as to alter its scope . |
| 27 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 28 | Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Whilst the assumption that asset demands are set at such a level so as to minimize ( 4 ) yields models that are both tractable and consistent with observed empirical realities , the justification for quadratic costs in such models is always somewhat ad hoc . |