Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] so as " in BNC.

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1 We 're trying , of course , to position ourselves so as to fool our competitors into delaying or cancelling their capacity increases .
2 I started to write it so as to shake them .
3 More significantly , the organisation was now free to manage itself so as to give a better service to patients .
4 To understand a Fregean representation is to know how to interpret it so as to establish what it is referring to , basically by the method described by the logician Frege as applying functions to arguments .
5 Today their conversation was solely work , and both seemed happy to keep it so as they made their way to the circuit .
6 The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules .
7 Gradually , during the decade , they began to relax it so as to admit more and more controversial confessions .
8 Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it .
9 At the same time , SunSelect unveiled its proposal for a Public Windows Interface specification that would bring the Windows applications program interface into the public domain and make it harder for Microsoft to alter it so as to trip up the competition .
10 He wanted to speak , to say anything so as not to seem sullen or graceless , but there was nothing ; and they went into the restaurant stiffly , not looking at each other .
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