Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] as [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " A money award can be calculated so as to make good a financial loss " : per Lord Morris in West v Shephard [ 1964 ] AC at p345 . |
| 2 | In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) . |
| 3 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
| 4 | With effect from the general election of 1965 West German electoral law was amended so as to impose stricter limits on variations in constituency magnitudes . |
| 5 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
| 6 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 7 | This contrast may be more apparent than real , however , for new technologies of birth and reproduction may alter the biologically given so as to make possible a changed perspective that would have been inconceivable in the past . |
| 8 | A concentration may occur in one of two ways : first , two or more parties that were previously independent may merge so as to become one new independent business or secondly , one or more persons who already control one business may acquire direct or indirect control of another business . |
| 9 | The idea that some form of market will act so as to restrain corporate managers from abusing their discretion by failing to serve the interests of the shareholders is flawed in two ways . |
| 10 | The words used will be interpreted according to the so-called " golden rule " : they will be given their ordinary grammatical and literal meaning unless that produces absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy , when the literal meaning can be modified so as to avoid that absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy . |
| 11 | It can then be located so as to provide convenient armchair control . |
| 12 | Having obtained the poles of , the relevant physical transfer function is deduced by rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane and a network is synthesised so as to generate that transfer function . |
| 13 | In a radically different approach to filter design , a filter is synthesised so as to provide some preconceived functional form of frequency response that exhibits certain desirable features . |
| 14 | This was followed in 1988 by a reform of the Community Budget in which steps were taken to shift expenditure from agricultural to the structural funds , that is those concerned with regional and social matters , and the expenditure rules were recast so as to concentrate such structural spending on the poorest regions . |
| 15 | Aircraft maintenance function would be considered today as having five generations of development , as follows ( see Fig. 5 ) : |
| 16 | From this perspective , in imposing negligence liability the court can be seen merely as upholding private rights , and that is hardly an ‘ intrusion ’ . |
| 17 | The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court . |
| 18 | The second hypothesis of this paper is that patterns of regularity in the semantic net can be exploited so as to generate meaningful , linear documents . |
| 19 | The records typically understate the concentration of wealth , for they rely on individual declarations which are manipulated and presented so as to minimise apparent wealth holdings . |
| 20 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |
| 21 | This chapter has been organized so as to describe three main tours of the island , as well as a trip to Curral das Freiras . |
| 22 | In his English writings Richard Rolle , too , sees Christ 's suffering as the pragmatic key to a form of living both as regards external circumstances and internal consciousness , which will free followers to engage with the ineffable reality of the love mediated at the Incarnation . |
| 23 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 24 | Our audit has been performed so as to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material error . |
| 25 | Moreover , distinctions may be drawn between ordinary shares , ranking equally as regards financial participation , by dividing them nevertheless into separate classes with different voting rights . |
| 26 | Using the Churchill amendment as a model , the words ‘ exposed to view ’ could be deleted and replaced so as to limit such exclusion to ‘ any part of that matter which is neither visible nor accessible to persons under the age of 18 , or which , if so accessible , is not kept in a wrapping which , while intact , prevents that matter from being seen ’ . |
| 27 | But his whole account can perhaps be understood so as to avoid such objections . |
| 28 | NAB has decided that the 1983–4 pool should be distributed so as to accord equal treatment to the polytechnics and the colleges of higher education . |
| 29 | Here a transfer price of £50 has been set so as to give each division some of the profit . |
| 30 | ‘ You must not deliberately offend so as to invite such punishment , ’ whispered the puissant amputee hoarsely . |