Example sentences of "[noun] [noun sg] so as [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Automatic accruer is perhaps more commonly used by professional partnerships ( and has the practical advantage of not being dependent upon compliance with a prescribed timetable ) but there is considerable uncertainty as to whether such an arrangement should be regarded as a binding contract for the sale and purchase of the partnership share so as to take its value outside the scope of business property relief for the purposes of Inheritance Tax ( see Chapter 10 ) . |
| 2 | The dye colour chosen should be complementary to the rock colour so as to provide the greatest degree of contrast . |
| 3 | Contrary to what was stated on the form , it was not explained to Miss T. ‘ that it may be necessary to give a blood transfusion so as to prevent injury to my health , or even to preserve my life , ’ nor was the form read or its contents explained to her . |
| 4 | It seemed that the men were welshing on the Equal Opportunities policy so as to make the paper more attractive to investors . |
| 5 | Bryan Soppitt , sales director for Fast Food Systems , which also supplies standard Dean fryers , agrees with his colleagues in the frying industry that the trend is toward de-skilling the frying operation so as to rely less on staff in order to achieve quality and consistency in the end product . |
| 6 | Contributions to the group 's defined benefit pension scheme are charged to the profit and loss account so as to spread the cost of pensions over employees ' working lives with the group . |
| 7 | Contributions to the schemes are charged to the profit and loss account so as to spread the cost of pensions over the employees ' working lives within the Group . |
| 8 | The contributions to the schemes by the companies are charged to the profit and loss account so as to spread the cost of pensions incurred over employees working lives with the Group . |
| 9 | Contributions to the pension fund schemes are assessed in accordance with advice from qualified actuaries and charged to the profit and loss account so as to spread the cost over the remaining expected service lives of the employees within the relevant schemes . |
| 10 | Contributions to the pension fund schemes are assessed in accordance with advice from qualified actuaries and charged to the profit and loss account so as to spread the cost over the remaining expected service lives of the employees within the relevant schemes . |
| 11 | They took issue with the decision of the Venezuelan government to grant CNGSB negotiators refugee status so as to facilitate their departure from Caracas to attend the San José talks . |
| 12 | Neither can it make a specific issue or prohibited steps order so as to require a child to be accommodated by a local authority as this would in effect allow the authority to take the child into care without necessarily satisfying the s31 criteria ( s9(5) ( b ) ) . |
| 13 | Impending bankruptcy It may be preferred to activate the power to expel at an earlier date in the bankruptcy process so as to minimise the damage caused to the firm by protracted , and possibly contested proceedings . |
| 14 | This information will be maintained on a micro-computer in a format compatible with the leading data base management strategy so as to permit the later addition of information about individual Member 's voting behaviour , committee memberships , debate participation and career paths . |
| 15 | Question 15 Should the hardship test be applied to all claims on the compensation fund so as to exclude all institutional and most corporate applicants ? |
| 16 | Even though the winds were not as strong lower down , Duncan maintained his 41,000 feet altitude so as to save fuel . |
| 17 | Meanwhile , there are plans to change the management structure so as to divide responsibility for editorial content , day-to-day management and the business side of the Le Monde publishing empire more logically . |
| 18 | This resulted in a change to the user interface so as to allow the test engineer a choice of system entry level and support . |
| 19 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |
| 20 | They included a sweeping revision of the Internal Security Act so as to end detention without trial , as provided for in the " Pretoria Minute " agreement between the government and the ANC in August 1990 [ see p. 37642 ] ; a proposal to offer Cabinet seats to blacks during a transitional period while a new constitution was being negotiated ; the appointment of a neutral chairman of the constitutional conference ; and the appointment of an independent judge or jurist to investigate incidents of violence . |
| 21 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 22 | MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway . |
| 23 | Write the number in pencil on the outside of the examination book so as to serve as a guide to you later . |
| 24 | They intend to run the course as a pay as you play facility , however , they intend to offer a membership scheme so as to accommodate competitions and team matches within the club . |
| 25 | The important factor in the design of crash-helmets is therefore the cushioning of the shock wave so as to prevent damage at the back of the skull . |
| 26 | Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders . |
| 27 | In 1979 , this precedent was greatly extended with the institution of 14 new select committees each charged with the oversight of the work of a about 10 members selected by a selection committee so as to reflect , as far as possible , the strength of the various parties in the House of Commons . |
| 28 | It also has the effect of raising the back edge so as to hide the joints at the bottom and provide a start for the graceful curve down from the top edge . |
| 29 | These people may of course want to keep their knowledge secret so as to avoid any involvement in criminal proceedings , which is not helpful to creditors and to credit managers wanting to know what is to be salvaged from the wreck . |
| 30 | A famous example nearer to our own time is that of the Christian martyr Simone Weil , who joined the Renault workers on the assembly line so as to share their debasement , and worked on the land for the same reason , absurdly so in view of her frail physique . |