Example sentences of "[noun] so [subord] [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Design and manufacture products so as to optimise their environmental performance , including considering the environmental effects when sourcing raw materials . |
| 2 | It is possible that juries would prefer to convict of murder in such cases so as to register their abhorrence of the defendant 's activities in general . |
| 3 | Let us assume that insiders are now willing to accept a real wage reduction so as to protect their jobs . |
| 4 | In Nos. 1 and 3 you are particularly aware of how much he initially holds in reserve so as to reveal their full organic growth and cumulative excitement . |
| 5 | They include restructuring drift angles of injector wells through the reservoir so as to increase their verticality to enhance thermal fracturing . |
| 6 | Some anthropologists ( notably Dickemann 1979 ) have interpreted human societies on the assumption that people act so as to maximise their inclusive fitness ; i.e. that they behave as predicted by kin selection theory , with the added assumption that individuals know , at least approximately , their degree of relatedness to other members of their society . |
| 7 | The sand functions as a ground plane or as a surrogate elevation and enables me to shift building elements so as to understand their sculptural capacity . |
| 8 | The Marshal had seen them as they stood gossiping in the street at an equal distance between the two buildings so as to keep their doors in view , but it would be a waste of time trying to get her to admit it . |
| 9 | It can be argued that such schemes should be embodied in statutes so as to put their administration and the principles of compensation on a firm legal footing . |
| 10 | Radical voices in developing countries began to accuse the West of plotting to keep down the numbers in the Third World so as to maintain their own privileged position . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These lay down European standards and the member states are required to amend their own national laws so as to bring their own standards into line with the European harmonized standard . |
| 14 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |