Example sentences of "[vb base] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lawrence then supposes that bristles grow so as to point down the concentration gradient . |
| 2 | If bristles then grow so as to point down the local gradient , they will produce exactly the pair of vortices that were observed ( Figure 14d ) . |
| 3 | But Crosby 's move for Wilson has been put on ice while Southampton dither over whether to come back in for Armstrong after having a £750,000 bid rejected . |
| 4 | Our people deserve better than to have been treated like this , and the general quality of our society will not rapidly improve unless they are . |
| 5 | In fact , on a fast PC with an average hard disk , it can be quicker to load a smaller file and decompress rather than to load the full-sized equivalent . |
| 6 | Still if you mind 's made up , I know better than to argue with you . ’ |
| 7 | Similarly , prospective employees know better than to rely on landscaping or other signals put out by employers and attempt , instead , to find out the inside story from their contacts . |
| 8 | Simply to dismiss their work as ‘ pessimistic ’ , however , or to use it emblematically as a naive position which we now know better than to take seriously , seems to me hopelessly to devalue the currency of critique . |
| 9 | ‘ You know better than to ask questions like that . |
| 10 | Student astrologers , along with some scientists , often try to defend astrology as a logical workable system , but the old hands know better than to try . |
| 11 | and we know better than to surrender . |
| 12 | But I know better than to interrupt the hero with my babblings ; instead I ape the satisfied cadaver . |
| 13 | They know better than to believe anything they hear , unless I 'm the person who tells them . ’ |
| 14 | Even today there 's nothing I like better than to sit in church on Sunday morning and lustily bawl out the hymns . ) |
| 15 | ‘ Duw , there 's nothing I like better than to work on my own ideas . ’ |
| 16 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 17 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |
| 18 | The case of J Sainsbury v O " Connor [ 1991 ] 1 WLR 963 is helpful on the question of what is needed to break the parent company 's beneficial ownership of Target , but on the question of whether " arrangements " exist so as to preclude the operation of the group income election the Sainsbury case has been superseded by the new " option arrangements " provisions in para 5B Sch 18 Taxes Act 1988 . |
| 19 | The monomers then redistribute so as to restore balance in what is termed the first relaxation . |
| 20 | We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us . |
| 21 | It is argued that within the private sector the method by which the firm ensures that individuals behave so as to maximize profits is to pay workers the value of marginal product . |