Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [adv] as [to-vb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | Later , she subtly modified her views so as to accommodate , not alienate , American feminists . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They will obviously arrange their affairs so as to ensure a steady stream of maturing loans . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The woman whom he paid for her favours so as to learn of that enchantment that could fuddle men and women ? |
| 14 | First , marriage as a legal institution developed , I submit , as an essential legal first step towards amassing wealth and power by uniting partners with these attributes and endowing with legitimacy their heirs so as to guarantee inheritance according to articulated and certain principles . |
| 15 | This means that farmers in these dales may opt to be paid a certain amount per hectare by the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food to manage their lands so as to ensure the traditional landscape features of stone buildings , field walls and flower-rich meadows for the enjoyment of the public . |
| 16 | Nor need the doctor adopt palliative measures , if ‘ palliation ’ is taken to mean the use of measures aimed at modifying pathological processes or their consequences so as to delay or prevent the otherwise inevitable effects of such processes or their consequences . |
| 17 | This is because each agency has to fight for its share of the overall intelligence budget and in the process exaggerates and distorts its reports so as to pander to the whims of those who hold the purse-strings . |
| 18 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 19 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
| 20 | And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows . |
| 21 | At his death he owed the queen £4,000 from rents on forest land in his care as sub-warden , but there was a suggestion that he settled lands on his daughters so as to deprive the queen of her due . |
| 22 | Many of us Christians have become extremely skilful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications . |
| 23 | Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy . |
| 24 | What is important is to learn by our mistakes so as to avoid future problems . |