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

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1 The draft rules for the asylum appeals procedure were issued unfinished so as to aid discussion .
2 Governments should aim to make their policy instruments as predictable as possible so as to minimize confusion and hence undesirable fluctuations in output .
3 Get actual local conditions as early as possible so as to have time to make any amendments to your plan .
4 Was that so as to cast doubt on Googol 's word ?
5 ( c ) Construction of partnership agreements The following general rules apply : ( 1 ) The agreement will not be presumed to be exhaustive so as to disallow evidence of actual practices of the partnership said to be inconsistent with the written terms or alleged to indicate how those terms should be construed .
6 According to these critics the government should put into effect society 's desire to invest more so as to promote growth .
7 Practice — Discovery — Privilege against self-incrimination — Action for damages for fraud and breach of trust — Plaintiffs obtaining order requiring defendants to disclose information and documents — Proviso prohibiting use of information in criminal proceedings — Defendants claiming privilege against self-incrimination — Whether proviso effective to protect defendants — Whether plaintiffs ' claim proprietary so as to defeat claim to privilege — Whether claim for infringement of rights pertaining to commercial information — Supreme Court Act 1981 ( c. 54 ) , s. 72
8 ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class .
9 It was held that the payment was not voluntary so as to preclude recovery .
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