Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] so as " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable . |
| 3 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 4 | I particularly thank my hon. Friend and his colleagues for recently calling in the Hillside and Brookshill development in my district so as to protect still further the local green belt land . |
| 5 | In preparing my statement so as to include another recent event , I was following the behaviour of my predecessors , who have done the same on such occasions . |
| 6 | As usual I had not named my squad so as to keep the opposition guessing — all I had announced was that there would be eleven players in the team . |
| 7 | It is ICI 's policy to manage all of its activities so as to give benefit to society , ensuring that they meet relevant laws and regulations ; that they are acceptable to the community at large ; and that their environmental impact is reduced to a practicable minimum . |
| 8 | Later , she subtly modified her views so as to accommodate , not alienate , American feminists . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Consideration there must still be but in my judgment the courts nowadays should be more ready to find its existence so as to reflect the intention of the parties to the contract where the bargaining powers are not unequal and where the finding of consideration reflects the true intention of the parties . |
| 12 | In McEllistrim v The Ballymacelligott Co-op Agricultural & Dairy Society [ 1919 ] AC 548 a co-operative society had changed its rules so as to prevent any member from selling milk other than to the society . |
| 13 | The actin cable provides a novel way for epidermal cells to coordinate their activities so as to close gaps , fulfilling their function as a self-repairing barrier layer . |
| 14 | The experience then was that floating did not appear to be very successful since individual countries depreciated their currencies so as to gain a competitive advantage over their trading rivals . |
| 15 | They certainly choose their abuse so as to indicate to those who do toe the line that they have lost it . |
| 16 | The duty to discharge their functions so as not to create a nuisance . |
| 17 | They hide this from their parents so as not to add to their pain , but need someone with whom they can share unacceptable feelings . |
| 18 | Clive 's favourite , perfectly serious , leitmotif was : ‘ We 're a top team , are n't we ! ’ until Jane felt she 'd scream if he said it once more , and ordered breakfast in her room so as to avoid him first thing in the morning , at least . |
| 19 | She asked him to come to her room so as not to overhear any more , and then they went downstairs in an express lift : a glass-and-gilt beetle that hurtled the twenty-eight floors in nine and a half seconds . |
| 20 | So , this at least is indisputable : that however it may have seemed to Cole in 1944 , justification by success has lost its validity : and the loss prompts the question whether the Movement should re-appraise its purposes so as to establish Co-operation on a broader and securer footing . |
| 21 | She experimented , twisting her body so as to unwind the air line . |
| 22 | Her clothing moulds itself to her body so as to reveal or to promise as much of the delights within as it conceals ; it too includes silk , soft to the touch ( 3235 ) and the fresh warm taste of morning milk ( 3236 ) . |
| 23 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 24 | They will obviously arrange their affairs so as to ensure a steady stream of maturing loans . |
| 25 | It may thus be difficult for a group to organise its affairs so as to avoid the deemed attribution of the knowledge of a director who straddles two companies , in the above example , to the parent company . |
| 26 | This pronouncement on social policy upheld the institution of private property , but acknowledged that limitations might rightly be laid upon its rights so as to protect the poor and weak . |
| 27 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 28 | Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) . |
| 29 | The trustee ill bankruptcy can sell the goodwill of a business and its trade so as to exclude the bankrupt , when discharged , from commencing a similar business under the same name , or issuing the same or similar trade mark : Melrose-Drover v. Heddle ( 1901 ) 4 F. 1120 . |
| 30 | In that context the member state might also require a person appointed by the owner or operator of the vessel to be resident in its territory so as to be legally responsible for the operations of that administrative unit . |