Example sentences of "[adv] as [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | In 1986 it was decided that it would take three years to complete the job , twice as long as to construct a new building . |
2 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
3 | A measure actually intended to achieve the unpopular objective of raising revenue so as to remedy a funding deficit may , for example , be linked to and presented as instituting a new and desirable benefit . |
4 | and eased Boardwalk away from the rails so as to take the leader in the final furlong . |
5 | I knew of one farm where they served the suet and gravy first so as to take the edge off their hunger and save the meat . |
6 | Within which , behind which , a multitude of lights lurked faintly , intrinsically bright lights filtered by obsidian and vitrodur so as to resemble a swarm of phosphorescent creatures seen mutedly afar in some great oceanic abysmal valley that was deep and very long and very wide … |
7 | This was perceived necessary so as to bolster the bargaining position of consumers . |
8 | ‘ Maybe we should breed men an inch high so as to live a million years . ’ |
9 | They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) . |
10 | This leads to a system of values whose chief criterion seems to be lack of popularity ( that is , of commercial success ) , whose musical politics is governed by a continuous effort to be ‘ challenging ’ and ‘ difficult ’ so as to outwit the equally continuous capacity of the industry to exploit innovation , and whose approach to production is based on a ‘ folk spontaneity ’ model which sees ‘ real ’ music-making as arising ‘ naturally ’ , independent of the influence of existing codes , roles and practices . |
11 | The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible . |
12 | Marketing a school involves balancing a society 's needs for a cultured population against the immediate demands of parents , providers and consumers so as to maximise the school 's contribution to the well-being of society at large |
13 | At any given level of expenditure £n it may wish to optimise its " mix " of expenditure on the various promotional methods available to it , so as to maximise the level of sales to be obtained at the level of promotional expenditure £n . |
14 | The drafter should therefore draft clauses so as to maximise the chances of severance : the easiest way to do that is to draft separate limitations in separate sub-clauses . |
15 | It is generally fitted with an additional diffuser such as a glass cloth scrim , and positioned so as to give a lighting intensity of about one half of that of the key light . |
16 | With wealth distributed so as to give a highly distinctive social structure , the Craven District was quite unlike any other part of England . |
17 | The items were selected so as to give a quick overview of performance in relation to a range of topics including number concepts , measures , spatial concepts , algebra , graphs and number patterns . |
18 | The issue which divides your Lordships is whether this House should now reinterpret the principles lying behind the authorities so as to give a right of recovery in such circumstances . |
19 | Complex statistical multivariate procedures can be used to correlate and group market research data so as to give a statistically accurate identification of : * the size of segment groups and their similarities ; * the differences between the various groupings of attribute sets ; * the relationship of these groups to important consumer , market or product/benefit requirements . |
20 | Citizens ' Action and other environmental groups have been pressing for a broadening of the reporting requirements , so as to give a more accurate of pollution levels . |
21 | More significantly , the organisation was now free to manage itself so as to give a better service to patients . |
22 | Before passing on , I will introduce a piece of terminology of my own and call central-system thinking ‘ cognisance ’ , a term chosen so as to give the flavour of knowledge , rationality , and accessibility to consciousness . |
23 | Their job was to hold on as long as they could against impossible odds , so as to give the rest of the army time to concentrate in a hammer-blow at the enemy centre . |
24 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
25 | ‘ Where the prosecution intends to lead evidence of verbal admissions or confessions , the defence should always be alerted before the start of the case of such intention and the terms of the admissions/confessions so as to give the defence an opportunity to determine whether or not to challenge the admissibility of the evidence . ’ |
26 | The poem is written so as to give the impression of fleeting thoughts , which take him even as he is in conversation with these men , Brad and John , in a bar . |
27 | In any notification case of this kind the local planning authority will be given an opportunity to decide whether , in their view , the proposal should be advertised so as to give the public a chance to comment , and also to discuss with the department ways in which the proposal might be amended to overcome any objections to the proposed development . |
28 | For liquids a hypodermic syringe is used to inject the liquid through a rubber cap into a gas syringe heated so as to vaporise the liquid . |
29 | The advice suggested : ‘ we must try , by adopting a uniformly more robust and aggressive approach , to recover some lost ground ’ and accused the Divisional Court ‘ almost invariably ’ of looking for errors or ambiguities so as to upset the determinations of adjudicators . |
30 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |