Example sentences of "[verb] [noun pl] so [subord] [verb] " 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The finance cost should be allocated to accounting periods so as to achieve a constant rate on the amount outstanding . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The social scientist tends to study events so as to draw conclusions of a more general and rather static kind . |
| 10 | In that case also , the state in principle sets management an objective and imposes constraints so as to achieve the result . |
| 11 | There are many ways of categorizing activities so as to ration your time properly . |
| 12 | The Senate Budget Committee duly reported out reconciliation instructions on 23 March 1981 requiring fourteen Senate authorizing committees to alter programmes so as to cut $36 billion from the fiscal year 1982 budget . |
| 13 | A wide statutory definition would require exceptions so as to exclude tax avoidance ; a narrow definition would exclude many existing qualified worthy bodies , and hamper growth for the future . |
| 14 | The drafter should therefore draft clauses so as to maximise the chances of severance : the easiest way to do that is to draft separate limitations in separate sub-clauses . |
| 15 | But it was certainly not my intention to say that the ASB in general and on other accounting questions was moving towards unfudgeable figures : indeed , the indications are that they will continue to ask companies and auditors to make judgments so as to distinguish case from case . |
| 16 | All such options need to be examined for their effectiveness in reducing emissions so as to achieve air quality standards , as well as for their technical and economic feasibility , the speed with which they can be implemented , and their enforceability . |
| 17 | Fig 1 shows some methods of equalising slings so as to place an equal load on each anchor . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) The Panel accepts that for reasons of secrecy it is not prudent to make enquiries so as to include in an announcement details of the target 's shares held by other parts of an adviser 's group ( the adviser acting in concert with the offeror for these purposes ) . |