Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When I lost a temporary job in a local Traffic Office , I packed my things rather than face another bleak winter and with seven shillings and sixpence in my pocket I went to some friends in south-east London . |
| 4 | Similarly , structural analysis is replaced by deconstruction which also questions its objects rather than reflecting them . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Rosemary Duncan-Smith had made her views plain when driving Meg back to Norwich station after her interview . |
| 7 | Later , she subtly modified her views so as to accommodate , not alienate , American feminists . |
| 8 | As a committed Labour Party member I can not condone nor understand why , with the country suffering from Tory fatigue , the Labour Party does not thrust home its policies rather than become embroiled in this negative smear and counter-smear campaign . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Her meanings all but drowned in the immensity of it all . |
| 12 | It has been argued that a de-clawed cat can learn to use its teeth more when grooming . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , for the scientists running the rehabilitation centres it is still a question of persuading the owners to surrender their captives rather than ordering them to do so . |
| 14 | They hold their heads tight when coughing because of the splitting headache . |
| 15 | Buyers will bargain hard to cut the cost of the house they want , but dig in their heels rather than reduce their own asking price . |
| 16 | The feeling of being pressed against his solid , rock-hard body almost undid her completely , and for a moment she was forced to simply lean against him , her legs all but giving way beneath her . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | How many people have done their , at my age , done their feet in because wearing them I do n't know . |
| 19 | Local villagers are prepared to sacrifice their lives rather than move to the inadequate , drought-prone resettlement areas ; many who moved to the resettlement areas in past years are now returning to their threatened villages . |
| 20 | But before Musicians Against The War had the guts to get off their arses rather than supporting the kicking of other people 's , where the hell WAS the rebellion ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Users specify their needs rather than having to construct the procedures to retrieve the required data . |
| 23 | Much anxiety may be avoided for your elderly parents if you can organise yourself and other members of the family to help them regularly with the jobs they can not cope with — anticipating their needs rather than waiting to be asked . |
| 24 | After all , one alternative upon discovering from an activity-based costing system that many products are unprofitable is to focus on reducing their costs rather than close down their production lines . |
| 25 | If they recovered and were friends she was delighted , and would flirt with them , and assume an easy physicality with them , and sleep with them again maybe , and break their hearts again if given half a chance . |
| 26 | They will obviously arrange their affairs so as to ensure a steady stream of maturing loans . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | University stress counsellors say students often arrive with their problems rather than have them created at College . |
| 30 | ‘ People saw politics as adding to their problems rather than solving them . |