Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] so as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who are studying on a part-time basis as members of a regional course do so as non-residential students , with regular residential weekends and summer schools . |
| 2 | One approach would be to have first-degree sexual assault defined so as to include penetration involving the penis , vagina , or anus , together with the threat or infliction of grievous bodily harm ; then a second-degree offence of the same nature involving a threat or infliction of actual bodily harm ; and then a third-degree offence covering all other sexual assaults involving penetration , and a fourth offence to cover indecent assaults not involving penetration . |
| 3 | The tradition of press freedom established in a number of metropolitan powers was not extended to the subject territories — although there were some rather clumsy attempts to do so as independence approached . |
| 4 | The majority of lone parents become so as the result of separation , divorce or death . |
| 5 | For the wealthy , the Act for Burying in Woollen imposed but another expense , as £5 was but a small price to pay so as not to be buried in a material proscribed for even the lowliest rustic . |
| 6 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 7 | We would expect temporary workers employed on open-ended contracts to do so as well . |