Example sentences of "[adv] as [to-vb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 2 | A measure actually intended to achieve the unpopular objective of raising revenue so as to remedy a funding deficit may , for example , be linked to and presented as instituting a new and desirable benefit . |
| 3 | I knew of one farm where they served the suet and gravy first so as to take the edge off their hunger and save the meat . |
| 4 | and eased Boardwalk away from the rails so as to take the leader in the final furlong . |
| 5 | Within which , behind which , a multitude of lights lurked faintly , intrinsically bright lights filtered by obsidian and vitrodur so as to resemble a swarm of phosphorescent creatures seen mutedly afar in some great oceanic abysmal valley that was deep and very long and very wide … |
| 6 | This was perceived necessary so as to bolster the bargaining position of consumers . |
| 7 | At any given level of expenditure £n it may wish to optimise its " mix " of expenditure on the various promotional methods available to it , so as to maximise the level of sales to be obtained at the level of promotional expenditure £n . |
| 8 | Marketing a school involves balancing a society 's needs for a cultured population against the immediate demands of parents , providers and consumers so as to maximise the school 's contribution to the well-being of society at large |
| 9 | The drafter should therefore draft clauses so as to maximise the chances of severance : the easiest way to do that is to draft separate limitations in separate sub-clauses . |
| 10 | The issue which divides your Lordships is whether this House should now reinterpret the principles lying behind the authorities so as to give a right of recovery in such circumstances . |
| 11 | It is generally fitted with an additional diffuser such as a glass cloth scrim , and positioned so as to give a lighting intensity of about one half of that of the key light . |
| 12 | In any notification case of this kind the local planning authority will be given an opportunity to decide whether , in their view , the proposal should be advertised so as to give the public a chance to comment , and also to discuss with the department ways in which the proposal might be amended to overcome any objections to the proposed development . |
| 13 | Their job was to hold on as long as they could against impossible odds , so as to give the rest of the army time to concentrate in a hammer-blow at the enemy centre . |
| 14 | ‘ Where the prosecution intends to lead evidence of verbal admissions or confessions , the defence should always be alerted before the start of the case of such intention and the terms of the admissions/confessions so as to give the defence an opportunity to determine whether or not to challenge the admissibility of the evidence . ’ |
| 15 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 16 | Before passing on , I will introduce a piece of terminology of my own and call central-system thinking ‘ cognisance ’ , a term chosen so as to give the flavour of knowledge , rationality , and accessibility to consciousness . |
| 17 | The poem is written so as to give the impression of fleeting thoughts , which take him even as he is in conversation with these men , Brad and John , in a bar . |
| 18 | For liquids a hypodermic syringe is used to inject the liquid through a rubber cap into a gas syringe heated so as to vaporise the liquid . |
| 19 | The advice suggested : ‘ we must try , by adopting a uniformly more robust and aggressive approach , to recover some lost ground ’ and accused the Divisional Court ‘ almost invariably ’ of looking for errors or ambiguities so as to upset the determinations of adjudicators . |
| 20 | Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached . |
| 21 | The member countries thereby aimed to minimize border disputes and to control internal or inter-regional terrorism and drug trafficking so as to facilitate the kind of peaceful coexistence , regional development ( including the protection of the environment through a " rational " exploitation of indigenous natural resources ) and political integration which promoted democracy while respecting national sovereignty . |
| 22 | The received wisdom of biochemistry is that active sites in complex enzymes are close to one another , so as to facilitate the movement of intermediate structures among the active sites , rather like a production line in a factory . |
| 23 | Upon receiving the report , the court can make an interim order under s 252 so as to facilitate the implementation of the proposed voluntary arrangement or make a bankruptcy order ( s 274 ) . |
| 24 | Grudgingly , he would grant all requests so as to cease the torture inflicted on his friends . |
| 25 | … it seems clear that either the basic subscription should be increased to say £12 so as to recover the cost of four issues of the journal and leave £7 for the lifeboat service , or members should be asked to pay a subscription for the journal . |
| 26 | The manipulation of this machine-readable material so as to generate a number of products . |
| 27 | Given that the implications are so profound , however , there is an urgent need to consider ways in which data from the 1991 census and vital registration can be linked in more illuminating ways so as to examine the phenomenon of the unoccupied in more depth . |
| 28 | The former s39 ( now repealed so as to open the way for MDPssee below ) prohibited solicitors from acting as agents for unqualified persons . |
| 29 | He describes his own ( very Darwinian ! ) experiment in which he allowed the stolons of Saxifraga sarmentosa ( a classic ‘ guerrilla ’ growth form ) to encounter an artificial vegetation that he had constructed : ‘ Many long pins were next driven rather close together into the sand , so as to form a crowd in front of … two thin lateral branches ; but these easily wound their way through the crowd . |
| 30 | The lateral sclerites usually comprise two plates on either side , closely hinged together so as to form a fulcrum between the head and prothorax . |