Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the years , sensitive tutor-organisers , with the personality to work harmoniously with Federation and branch officers , have consistently been able to promote rather than to threaten voluntaryism . |
| 2 | In contrast , an alternative approach is to invest so as to increase production . |
| 3 | Rule 7(6) of the Solicitors ' Practice Rules 1990 has been amended so as to allow solicitors to go into partnership with registered foreign lawyers . |
| 4 | If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear . |
| 5 | It gave Anna real pain to post magazines through one new front door hinged and studded so as to resemble part of the set for a pantomime of Robin Hood , and then another , moulded and classically pedimented , between half-pilasters made of fibreglass . |
| 6 | Competency testing in high school , civil-service examinations , job-placement examinations , college-entrance examinations , and diagnostic testing in school have , as a result , been restrained , banned , or revised so as to reduce test accuracy . |
| 7 | Topping up is by a hose , placed so as to pass water through the filter before reaching the pond . |
| 8 | They signed a memorandum which read : ‘ I agree that the terms of the late Mr Farrington 's last will be varied so as to give Mrs Violet Peppercorn all of Mr Farrington 's personal chattels together with the freehold bungalow at 27 Washingly Road , Folksworth , of which she is currently tenant ( tax-free ) and to give a tax-free legacy of £5,000 to Mr and Mrs Arthur Peppercorn . |
| 9 | That infamous attire strangling his glorious body — really a pastiche of desirability — inspired battalions of people who should know better than to wear Lycra shorts . |
| 10 | At your age you should know better than to bring rubbish into the house . |
| 11 | Whether we know him or not whether we 've never had any dealings with him in the past or not , he is able to bring peace once we allow him to come in and to take control of the situation . |
| 12 | Organizations are seen as rational instruments for realizing explicit goals , with different parts that can be modified so as to increase efficiency ( Gouldner 1959 ) . |
| 13 | all sorts of managing business and they had to work together and to hold group organisations . |
| 14 | The data in Table 7 can be rearranged so as to rank universities in order of the proportion of Scottish theses to theses as a whole , and develop what might be called a ‘ Parochiality Index ’ . |
| 15 | Those in the house who are gardeners know that shrubs grow irregularly and to keep trees and shrubs in fine condition , pruning is essential . |
| 16 | Jack Maurice of the Institute 's Ethics Committee also warned that , although Channel 7 may not be ethically improper , practitioners should ‘ consider carefully whether to spend money on it ’ . |
| 17 | Schrager and Short may not go this far , but they are certainly right to stress that corporate crime should be conceptualized so as to include acts of omission as well as the more obvious acts of commission . |
| 18 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |
| 19 | These empowered local authorities to clear and reconstruct unhealthy areas , with powers to purchase compulsorily and to limit compensation . |
| 20 | In an address on ‘ The Cultural Environment and Media Education ’ , Professor George Gerbner of the Annenberg School of Communication in Philadelphia also stressed the need to gain a genuine , unblinkered understanding of the world before any attempt is made to engage in or to teach communication . |
| 21 | The arrangements have been made so as to enable spectators to be SET DOWN AND PICKED UP AT THE SAME POINT in a city unfamiliar to them . |
| 22 | One views unusual vertical arrangements with suspicion , presuming that they are made so as to prevent others entering the industry , to raise margins and thereby increase profits at the expense of consumers . |
| 23 | Encourage families to visit frequently and to take part in activities within the home . |
| 24 | of Friday and we looked at the individual steps but we know , everybody says yes we ask the business , we came across and to put Gareth , can you take it through and explain what it is , and explain each stage so let's hear from Gareth then . |
| 25 | In the last phase of the research , the researcher will be in a position to begin to test ideas about what is going on and to identify patterns of behaviour . |
| 26 | For example , the days of dull , impenetrable forms that seemed designed to obscure rather than to convey information are passing . |
| 27 | The focus of attention is upon whether the national law could be interpreted so as to give effect to Community law obligations . |
| 28 | Above all , the legal effect of the terms should be clear and certain , and they should be drafted so as to avoid ambiguity . |
| 29 | Only 365 people turned up and to add insult to injury , the lights had to be turned on in the second half when a storm blew up , plunging the ground into darkness . |
| 30 | Trade unions became an important part of the Keynesian neo-capitalist revolution which prompted government intervention in the economy to overcome the inability of an unregulated free market economy to grow adequately or to distribute income fairly . |