Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber . |
| 2 | Since many negotiations seem to break down at the implementation stage it is often worth making a prior commitment to monitor progress jointly and to meet again shortly after implementation is supposed to start . |
| 3 | Their aim is to provoke change rather than to enhance awareness . |
| 4 | Ad hoc reports are an essential part of any system that aspires not merely to process data routinely but to permit management information to be creamed off the top . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They were less involved in thinly rationing existing services than is often necessary in social work and more able to concentrate help so as to provide a relatively complete service capable of achieving significant change for some people . |
| 7 | Greenbaum and Quirk posit a principle of end-focus to account for the tendency to process information' so as to achieve a linear presentation from low to high information value' . |
| 8 | The quest for respectability was very much part of the drive to increase audiences generally and to ensure that motion-picture theatres were not confined to any down-town ghetto but it was also part of an even more fundamental question . |
| 9 | This mechanisation helped the skilled workers to increase production rapidly and to produce the cloth more cheaply . |
| 10 | Indeed , we have delayed publication so as to incorporate a large part of the ASH detailed brief on the subject in the paper . |
| 11 | ‘ Ordinarily , it would seem to me that this object is most likely to be achieved by employing a single well-qualified firm , which would itself deploy staff so as to achieve the optimum blend of continuity and freshness . |
| 12 | Certain types of agreement will seldom if ever qualify for exemption , for example those which restrict competition so as to affect inter-state trade and contain export bans , maintain retail prices or lead to absolute territorial protection of national markets . |
| 13 | First , the subjective formulation of section 68 is made objective so as to read , ‘ if the Secretary of State has reasonable grounds to believe . ’ |
| 14 | Although it was originally intended to receive exhibitions rather than to devise and produce them , the new federal Kunsthalle is now setting its sights higher . |
| 15 | Yep , well , I mean the objective of fire prevention is to , is to try and make places safer and to alert people to erm to the risks and dangers of fire , before it happens , that that 's , the objective is to er try and stop fires happening . |
| 16 | Its purpose is to diagnose and remedy weaknesses rather than to exclude from further study the students who do not perform well . |
| 17 | Jaq wondered how much effort of will it had cost her to resist ultimate , engulfing pleasure so as to gasp out a question or two to her tormenter and enchanter . |
| 18 | In 1672 Haines obtained a patent for a new method of cleaning trefoil so as to improve the seed , and this led to public controversy with Caffyn , who was himself a local farmer , jealous of Haines 's influence with local notables , and convinced that patents were unchristian and patentees covetous . |
| 19 | You see when committees are meeting at two o'clock usually have a much shorter agenda than this committee discussion but to enable to this committee and to do its job properly , I would think we 'd be looking where possible to be able to discuss items properly and to get start at a reasonable time like we do . |
| 20 | Remote sensing , engineering geophysics and hydrogeological techniques are being used in a study in south-east Zimbabwe aimed at improving the success rate of boreholes and dug wells so as to improve the provision of a reliable supply of clean water to rural communities in developing countries , particularly in semiarid tropical regions where droughts are frequent . |
| 21 | Britons have stood successfully shoulder-to-shoulder in order to win battles abroad and to repel foreign invaders from their shores . |
| 22 | Whatever the outcome , in Qaddafi 's ideology community sovereignty was a means to an end : he intended the abolition of central government to liberate individuals , to enable them to exercise power directly and to bypass intervening agencies which obstructed the will of the people . |
| 23 | It must so conduct affairs so as to secure full or near-full employment and that the rate of inflation will be stable and low enough to be tolerable . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The finance cost should be allocated to accounting periods so as to achieve a constant rate on the amount outstanding . |
| 26 | Using reported experiences , we aimed to draw together good practice and make recommendations to the organisations on how best to manage secondments so as to help secondees adapt more rapidly to their new jobs and , in due course , to the return of their former posts . |
| 27 | Cyril Ramaphosa , president of the National Union of Mineworkers and one of the group who met Mr Mandela on Tuesday , said that after their release the ANC men would demand passports so as to visit ANC leaders abroad for consultations . |
| 28 | By the spring of 1527 , Henry had convinced himself that his marriage to Catherine of Aragon was contrary to divine law and canonically invalid , and had resolved to put Catherine aside and to marry Anne Boleyn . |
| 29 | The reader is constantly reminded of the two main assumptions which Petrey takes to be central to the theory : that language depends on social conventions rather than on any individual 's intentions , and that language is used to do things rather than to represent things . |
| 30 | Typically , the teacher is called upon to implement the second order realization of new ideas in the form of teaching materials rather than to consider the ideas themselves and how they key in with his own experience of teaching . |