Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] so [conj] [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 At the least , the seller should agree to ensure that the business of the offeree group is carried on in the ordinary and usual course so as to maintain the same as a going concern ; and that nothing is voluntarily done or omitted which would result in a material inaccuracy in the warranties if they were repeated on , and as at , completion .
2 The registrar granted the administrators leave to serve the originating application on the bank in Jersey pursuant to rule 12.12 of the Insolvency Rules 1986 Mervyn Davies J. granted the bank 's application to set aside the registrar 's order , holding that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to include a foreigner resident abroad , and that ‘ any person ’ in the section could not apply to the bank .
3 On 19 June 1991 Mervyn Davies J. [ 1992 ] Ch. 160 set aside the registrar 's order on the ground that section 238 of the Act of 1986 did not have extraterritorial effect so as to apply to a foreign bank incorporated and resident abroad having no place of business in the United Kingdom , with the consequence that the court had no jurisdiction to make an order under the section against the bank .
4 They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol .
5 Recruitment clearly has to continue at a high level so as to maintain C&P 's scientific excellence [ and relevance ! ] .
6 The course was lengthened by pushing back some tees so as to comply with the Regulations on Handicapping , resulting in the Club having four recognised S.S. courses : White ( 70 ) , Yellow ( 69 ) , Green ( 68 ) and the L.G.U. Red ( 72 ) .
7 By the autumn of 1837 , he had developed this analogy so as to understand all long-run trends in diversification and progress through an arboriform extrapolation , on a changing but stable Lyellian earth 's surface , of successive species propagations ; these being analogous to the successive bud propagations whereby any tree grows , with many buds ending without branching , in species extinctions , while other buds branch without ending , in species multiplications .
8 The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible .
9 ( 5 ) In order to determine whether any particular item of information falls within the implied term so as to prevent its use for disclosure by an employee after his employment has ceased , it is necessary to consider all the circumstances of the case .
10 In The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte Marx describes how an authoritarian regime founded on the bureaucracy ( both military and civil ) enabled the state , led by Louis Bonaparte , to gain a measure of autonomy from the warring factions of the French bourgeoisie so as to preserve the bourgeois social order in the face of a mounting threat from the lower classes .
11 He thought to take Mr gross salary in the present financial year , to reduce it by a third to get from gross to net earnings and to do similar calculations for the rest of the three and a half years so as to arrive at the figure of fifty three thousand nine hundred and six pounds .
12 The commonly-held view that good teachers are ones who can pass on their expertise through clear explanations so as to avoid confusing their pupils has some interesting implications .
13 Because at the moment we have different costing forms on different colours so as to know , to differentiate between post or telephone , face-to-face and so on .
14 Now I think of an animal or a small child depositing its excreta in the wrong place so as to annoy its owner or parent .
15 For a wood glue-to be effective it has to penetrate down the tubes for some distance so as to get hold of the undamaged wood .
16 There was nothing precious about the playing — no feeling of careful compromise so as to accommodate the work 's problems , and certainly , to hornist Frank Lloyd 's playing , one can listen , whatever the technical complexities , in the comfortable knowledge that nothing will slip between bell and lip .
17 Once this is conceded , then enquiries into the exact details and minutiae of the sexual behaviour so as to announce on its legal pedigree become redundant .
18 In order to secure a " constitutional premiership " that is less powerful and more accountable to the party and parliament , there are those within the Labour Party who would wish to change the British constitution so as to restrict the powers of a Prime Minister .
19 Let us rather ask ourselves how we would score bar 5 if it stood alone apart from its context , and adapt the first four bars to this arrangement so as to lead naturally into it .
20 The aim of this study is to revise the abyssal ophiuroids of the North Atlantic portraying the species likely to occur within this area so as to facilitate identification by the non specialist .
21 Where training is provided by humanities computing or computing science departments , there are pressures to dress it up in formal scientific terms so as to legitimize it in the eyes of the surrounding scientific community .
22 Otherwise you are likely to find that your puppy will continue in this manner so as to attract your attention .
23 The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance .
24 ( Another example could be my answering the telephone in a high voice so as to make the caller think he is speaking to my sister . )
25 These genes are the mechanism by which information arriving at the cell nucleus is translated into instructions for the later synthesis of key structural proteins — that is , proteins which will eventually be inserted into the synaptic membrane so as to change its structure and shape .
26 The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive .
27 The user creates the pages by manipulating this information so as to make it pleasing to the eye , informative , amusing , or whatever effect is required .
28 But given that they can have their position specified , and can interpret this position so as to form the pattern , then this provides a very powerful means of generating patterns .
29 Every village school in Eritrea is designed in this way so as to prevent detection from the air by the MIGs and Antanov bombers of the Ethiopian air force .
30 May I urge my right hon. Friend to keep as tight as humanly possible control on public expenditure so as to meet the objective of a balanced budget as soon as possible ?
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