Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed some propositions falling into the second category are of such little weight as to amount to virtually no authority at all , while others are so significant as to be more important than those apparently of binding authority . |
| 2 | I 'm not such a fool as to look for love again . ’ |
| 3 | Though — ’ he sat back and gave her a grim smile ‘ — I hope he 's not such a fool as to pay over the odds for your services . ’ |
| 4 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 5 | However , When we come to more detailed 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 allusion as to allow for wide margins of disagreement even among dedicated ‘ law-and-order ’ enthusiasts . |
| 6 | would have turned it into a distinct party separate from the Parliamentary Labour Party of which it formed nearly a halt Candidates were asked to avoid " commitments with other organisations of such a nature as to militate against their effectiveness as ILP Members of Parliament " . |
| 7 | Yet so striking was the colour of the child 's hair and of that which showed beneath the flat straw hat of the woman as to appear like distorted jogging lights in the dimness . |
| 8 | It is clear that the obligation not to use or disclose information may cover secret processes of manufacture such as chemical formulae , or designs or special methods of construction , and other information which is of a sufficiently high degree of confidentiality as to amount to a business secret . |
| 9 | Alternatively the Director General may confirm he has decided not to refer the agreement to the Court where : ( a ) any directly applicable provision of EC law applies to the agreement ; ( b ) the agreement has expired or has been terminated ; ( c ) all the relevant restrictions have been removed ; ( d ) the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has discharged the Director General from his duty to take proceedings where he is satisfied that the restrictions are not of such significance as to call for investigation by the Court . |
| 10 | But for certain reasons , which I will mention presently , we do n't want to use it ; so we pretend that it does not exist and hope that no one will be guilty of such bad taste as to refer to it . ) |
| 11 | I have come to you tonight as much to thank you for that answer as to explain to those of you who already plan to make your home in Eretz — and to any others who may make such a decision in the future — what lies before you . ’ |
| 12 | But clearly there is a point beyond which restrictions can not reasonably be imposed on the grounds of good neighbourliness without payment of compensation — and ‘ general considerations of regional or national policy require so great a restriction on the landowner 's use of his land as to amount to a taking away from him of a proprietary interest in the land ’ . |
| 13 | One of Charles 's most fruitful contributions to knowledge of the wider world was his establishment in 1675 of Greenwich Observatory , which was intended quite as much to assist sailors with the problems of navigation as to carry on scientific research . |
| 14 | This is the main purpose of this last part of Losing Out , and the proposals are broached in such a way as to appeal to a wider section of the electorate than the underclass alone . |
| 15 | My hypothesis is that there is a space for a socialist argument in favour of investment planning ; that such an argument could be presented in such a way as to appeal to organised labour and even to broader strata of the population concerned about employment prospects and their standard of living in retirement ; that if organised workers were to support the proposal they could use their union organisation to press for social accountability of their savings funds ; and that if the proposals were not linked to a ‘ dogmatic ’ pursuit of nationalisation they would stand a chance of recruiting some support from the more progressive elements of the state and corporate salariat — those whose technical expertise would be required in any such project , even if it is overlaid with oppressive ‘ professional ’ and ‘ managerial ’ ideologies — helping to isolate , so far as possible , reactionary financier elements . |
| 16 | Clearly the two are closely related : the archetypal Tudorbethan mansion built by a multinational house construction company being , for example , packaged in such a way as to appeal to a middle class household . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | As early as The Sycamore Tree Brooke-Rose displayed frustration with the limitations of the traditional character , but in Textermination she succeeds in manipulating these limitations in such a way as to move beyond them without completely abandoning the trappings of realism . |
| 20 | Since eventually the speaker must produce one or other of these approximately interchangeable sentences , the next procedure must be to operate upon the functional-level representation in such a way as to decide upon the details of the specific sentence that is to be produced — to commit oneself , for example , to a passive or an active sentence . |
| 21 | Although it is possible to interpret ‘ freedom of the press ’ in such a way as to include within it the ‘ freedom ’ to make a political choice and to volunteer one 's support , it does seem that political parties of the left are rarely favoured by newspapers . |
| 22 | To be developed " along appropriate lines and in such a way as to take into account the legal provisions , contractual agreements and practices in force in the member states . " |
| 23 | While we do this we must beware of those who are so hungry for authority in our societies that they want to press the authority of the Bible over men and the Church in such a way as to lead to extravagance or to sectarianism . |
| 24 | Absolute exemption from restriction or regulation is never obtained : circumstances , social or economic , may have altered , since they obtained acceptance , in such a way as to call for a fresh examination ; there may be some exorbitance or special feature in the individual contract which takes it out of the accepted category : but the court however must be persuaded of this before it calls upon the relevant party to justify a contract of this kind . |
| 25 | ‘ The member shall ensure that a person is not appointed as a company representative of that member except on terms which impose on him a duty to act in the performance of his functions as a company representative in such a way as to comply with the code of conduct ; … |
| 26 | In the case of the simple potential divider depicted in figure 8.2(c) , the requirement of unaltered loading on insertion between a source and load resistance R L demands that But the attenuation is or through condition ( 8.4 ) From equations ( 8.4 ) and ( 8.5 ) it follows that to implement attenuation A through a simple potential divider without altering the loading of the source , the values of resistances R 1 and R 2 must be Notice that to provide variable attenuation yet maintain unaltered loading , that is , input resistance equal to load resistance , both resistances R 1 and R 2 must be adjusted in such a way as to comply with equations ( 8.6 ) . |
| 27 | Unless both parties successfully anticipate inflation by fixing the terms of loans in such a way as to compensate for inflation , the lenders find that the real value of their loans declines , and the borrowers find that the real value of their debts declines to the same extent . |
| 28 | However , even outer clothing must have required fastening and such wear would also have arisen if they were worn on undergarments in such a way as to come into contact with the inner face of the coarse outer garments ; such extreme wear is perhaps more likely to have occurred in this way than on the outside . |
| 29 | At the Middle English stage , the description of divergence is still very salient ( partly because the states attested in writing are unquestionably divergent states ) , but we also begin to notice attempts to launder the data retrospectively in such a way as to focus on those features that lead to modern ‘ standard ’ English and to ignore , reject or explain away those features that deviate from it . |
| 30 | Fundamentally , it is a social rather than a psychological variable , its main purpose being to enable the researcher to compare individuals in such a way as to focus on differences between them with respect to degree of integration into a set of relationships which constitute a group capable of exerting normative pressure . |