Example sentences of "[adj] so [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The draft rules for the asylum appeals procedure were issued unfinished so as to aid discussion . |
| 2 | The Americans were anxious to see the Russians engaged in the Far East as soon as possible so as to minimise American losses . |
| 3 | Perhaps cyclists using the service could be asked to clean their bikes as much as possible so as to minimise the risk of oil stains etc . |
| 4 | Governments should aim to make their policy instruments as predictable as possible so as to minimize confusion and hence undesirable fluctuations in output . |
| 5 | Get actual local conditions as early as possible so as to have time to make any amendments to your plan . |
| 6 | Pre-prepared units of work should be labelled and stored so as to make them accessible to pupils and teachers alike . |
| 7 | ‘ Maybe we should breed men an inch high so as to live a million years . ’ |
| 8 | Situations in which they can prove useful are in small and/or lightly-stocked tanks , and rearing tanks where feeding is rather heavy and regular , as long as the turnover rate is not too high so as to stress the young fish or drag them into the filter . |
| 9 | It was , he continued , more important than ever to ensure that leases were well-drafted so as to make landlords and/or tenants fully aware as to whether or not their insurance policies covered damage caused by terrorism . |
| 10 | It is difficult to see any reason why in civil proceedings the privilege against self-incrimination should be exercisable so as to enable a litigant to refuse relevant and even vital documents which are in his possession or power and which speak for themselves . |
| 11 | The whole object of sex is to have unlike acting on unlike so as to make possible the production of unlike offspring , thus allowing for adaptive change , Darwin argues . |
| 12 | On the other hand , this goal , that is , a sample sufficiently large so as to make it representative , had to be weighed against time , staffing and other factors which imposed a practical limit on the size of the sample . |
| 13 | ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed . |
| 14 | The former assumption says that language behaviour in the classroom has to be natural so as to conform to the naturalness of language use : the latter assumption says that classroom behaviour has to be natural in conformity with natural processes of language learning . |
| 15 | She trotted off again , through a really insalubrious area known as Bligh 's Corner , after some landlord , long dead , and she unconsciously quickened her pace a little so as to arrive in the relatively respectable square where the rectory stood , next door to St Jude 's church where Dr Neil 's household worshipped every Sunday . |
| 16 | When my brother looked through his new spectacles into the Cinemascope format of the wide mirror I saw that he gently let his lower jaw fall a little so as to give himself more of the thin-faced appearance of Hank R Marvin in Summer Holiday . |
| 17 | ( 2 ) That no stay was to be imposed unless a defendant established on the balance of probabilities that , owing to the delay , he would suffer serious prejudice to the extent that no fair trial could be held , in that the continuation of the prosecution amounted to a misuse of the process of the court ; that , in assessing whether there was likely to be prejudice and if so whether it could properly be described as serious , the court should bear in mind the trial judge 's power at common law and under the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 to regulate the admissibility of evidence , the trial process itself which should ensure that all relevant factual issues arising from delay would be placed before the jury as part of the evidence for their consideration , and the judge 's powers to give appropriate directions before the jury considered their verdict ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's decision to stay the proceedings had been wrong , since such delay as there had been was not unjustifiable , the chances of prejudice were remote , the degree of potential prejudice was small , the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the police officer , there was no danger of the trial being unfair and in any event the case was not exceptional so as to justify the ruling ( post , p. 19B–E ) . |
| 18 | The delay , such as it was , was not unjustifiable ; the chances of prejudice were remote ; the degree of potential prejudice was small ; the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the respondent ; there was no danger of the trial being unfair ; in any event the case was in no sense exceptional so as to justify the ruling . |
| 19 | The delay , such as it was , was not unjustifiable ; the chances of prejudice were remote ; the degree of potential prejudice was small ; the powers of the judge and the trial process itself would have provided ample protection for the respondent ; there was no danger of the trial being unfair ; in any event the case was in no sense exceptional so as to justify the ruling . |
| 20 | I trust that my proposals as to where I believe library and information science professionals should direct their efforts are sufficiently clear-cut so as to draw responses from the professionals involved . |
| 21 | There are cases , including the authorities to which Cooke P. referred , in which an order apparently final has been treated as interlocutory so as to deprive a litigant of a right of appeal or so as to restrict such right . |
| 22 | Furthermore , the hierarchical structuring of the book is typeset so as to emphasize to the reader that p2 is at the same level as p1 and not a continuation of p6 . |
| 23 | Like his celebrated 1976 Macbeth , which teamed McKellen and Judi Dench , Nunn 's Othello was deliberately small-scale and intimate so as to shift the emphasis away from overripe declamation and directorial grandstanding and back to the fevered pulse of the play . |
| 24 | It was decided that the information was no longer confidential so as to prevent other parties making use of it . |
| 25 | Although the relevance of recordable bill of lading data depends upon the type of transaction involved , the following data are sufficiently generic so as to become prime candidates for public registry recording : 1 ) storage of goods in carriers ' warehouse or independent warehouses awaiting carriage ; 2 ) issuance of port to port and combined transport bills ; 3 ) on board loading ; 4 ) carriers ' ( actual or contractual ) names , and electronic signatures or authenticating devices ; 5 ) certificates of carrier , freight forwarder , and other issuer solvency or sufficiency of insurance ; 6 ) inspectors ' and other examiners ' names , electronic signatures or authenticating devices , and certifications of solvency or of sufficiency of insurance ; 7 ) negotiation , transfer , pledge , and presentation ( including cancellation ) of port to port and combined transport bills ; and 8 ) storage of goods upon termination of carriage , and issuance of warehouse and trust receipts . |
| 26 | But in other west European countries a different conclusion is being drawn , namely that European political union , perhaps excluding Britain , is all the more important so as to provide a check on American behaviour , to avoid a unipolar world . |
| 27 | Due to ignorance about the local language , the slogan was expressed in Chinese so as to mean ‘ Pepsi re-awakens your dead relatives ’ . |
| 28 | Despite this , however , he was treated with some suspicion by Parliament , who restricted his ability to raise taxes to pay for army or navy forces , so he turned to Louis XIV of France , who secretly made funds available so as to improve the failing status of the Roman Catholic Church in England , where the Church of England virtually excluded all ‘ dissenters ’ , which included Roman Catholics . |
| 29 | Practice — Discovery — Privilege against self-incrimination — Action for damages for fraud and breach of trust — Plaintiffs obtaining order requiring defendants to disclose information and documents — Proviso prohibiting use of information in criminal proceedings — Defendants claiming privilege against self-incrimination — Whether proviso effective to protect defendants — Whether plaintiffs ' claim proprietary so as to defeat claim to privilege — Whether claim for infringement of rights pertaining to commercial information — Supreme Court Act 1981 ( c. 54 ) , s. 72 |
| 30 | Like many Sicilian buildings the windows are very small so as to exclude the hot sunshine ( 215 ) . |