Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 2 | When BAT Industries , ICI and others are divesting activities as raiders appear ; when Courtaulds and Racal are divesting or splitting activities so as to focus on their core businesses ; the time has surely come to think again about corporate and other strategies . |
| 3 | The company 's account was , accordingly , in April 1987 transferred to the Woolwich branch so as to continue to be supervised by Mr. Tucker . |
| 4 | What Kane proposes is the strategy of ENTRYISM — which in its original connotation was a strategy of entering mainstream political parties undertaken by revolutionary groups so as to subvert from within . |
| 5 | Families are to be encouraged to live in their own homes rather than to rely on the state ( in the form of local authorities ) for the provision of council housing . |
| 6 | The courts will , however , avoid constraining a statute so as to dispense with a hearing completely . |
| 7 | The course was lengthened by pushing back some tees so as to comply with the Regulations on Handicapping , resulting in the Club having four recognised S.S. courses : White ( 70 ) , Yellow ( 69 ) , Green ( 68 ) and the L.G.U. Red ( 72 ) . |
| 8 | Reform of the United Nations so as to work towards greater representativeness , accountability and independence . |
| 9 | On 19 June 1991 Mervyn Davies J. [ 1992 ] Ch. 160 set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to apply to a foreign bank incorporated and resident abroad having no place of business in the United Kingdom , with the consequence that the court had no jurisdiction to make an order under the section against the bank . |
| 10 | There can be no alternative now but to press for guaranteed and unrestricted verifications , backed up by tougher international penalties against violators and greater pressure on all nations to accede to the treaty . |
| 11 | ‘ We have therefore suspended the Winchester Group as an appointed representative of the Norwich Union to take effect immediately and to continue until such time as they hear further from us to the contrary . |
| 12 | The invention consists essentially of a system of lifts each formed by a wet dock wherein the vessel to be transported is waterborne , the dock being mounted on a wheeled carriage adapted to support the dock horizontally and to run on inclined railways extending between the higher and lower water levels , the ways being transverse to the length of the dock which travels broadside on so as to admit of a short length of wheel base and a steep grade . |
| 13 | This involves attempting to put yourself in the consumer 's shoes so as to identify with their hopes and expectations and finding ways of meeting these . |
| 14 | The Legal Aid Act 1979 , extended the scope of legal advice and assistance so as to include within the ambit of the scheme , ‘ assistance by way of representation ’ ( ABWOR ) at certain designated proceedings . |
| 15 | You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting . |
| 16 | Railways are a type of transport that fall easily under central control , and whose construction may even intensify political centralism , because of the rationality of disposing lines so as to converge at a central point . |
| 17 | They certainly choose their abuse so as to indicate to those who do toe the line that they have lost it . |
| 18 | This is that , in my view , if a decision-making body is to exercise powers such as those of serving an intervention notice without giving anybody the opportunity to make representations beforehand , its procedures should provide that those who might otherwise expect to have been allowed to make representations should at least be allowed to make immediate application to set the decision aside and to appeal against it . |
| 19 | In this latter group of patients it may be more efficient to proceed directly to a trial of amiodarone or ICD placement rather than to proceed with a lengthy course of serial drug testing . |
| 20 | Its purpose is to diagnose and remedy weaknesses rather than to exclude from further study the students who do not perform well . |
| 21 | The conclusion ‘ that the overriding consideration must be to prevent war rather than to prepare for it , ’ was inescapable . |
| 22 | The emphasis of paraprofessional training needs to build upon and extend the qualities and skills that these workers bring to the team rather than to concentrate on socializing them to professional or organizational ways of doing things . |
| 23 | He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds . |
| 24 | According to Richard Prebble , then Minister for State-owned Enterprises , the two companies would reduce their holding in Telecom to 24.95 per cent each over the next three years so as to keep in line with the government 's planned 49.9 per cent limit on foreign ownership of the company . |
| 25 | We 've struggled to establish financial security so as to provide for the needs of our families and communities . |
| 26 | How could minute quantities of an injected peptide be guided to and then enter the appropriate neuron so as to code for the new memory ? |
| 27 | Sam said to me thoughtfully , ‘ If you had n't stopped me , I 'd have rolled up the curtain so as to go into the dock in a boat , and all that stuff under the water would have slithered away into the river and no one would have been any the wiser . ’ |
| 28 | 6 Enquire whether the patient will require hospital transport home and to return to Outpatients ( 48 hours ' notice is usually required ) . |
| 29 | On other occasions we may decide assertiveness is an investment actually got to use that style of behaviour to get my point across and to listen to them as well . |
| 30 | It was a toss up whether to try for acceptance in the front row ranks , or work towards qualifying for the back row . |