Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.

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1 On the other hand it was necessary to acquire an elementary understanding of the issues involved , examine previous work on measuring the required parameters and in particular learn something about canopy structure so as to assess the extent to which it would need to be taken into consideration .
2 The little blobs of phosphorus flare briefly as they fly off dangerously in various directions .
3 1.2 Extension of the principles In recent years there has been an extension of the principles behind the restraint of trade doctrine so as to embrace : ( a ) restraints in contracts which do not fit neatly into what was hitherto regarded as amounting to a restraint of trade ; ( b ) situations where the contract in question was not between the plaintiff and defendant and to which the plaintiff was not privy although he was affected by the working of the contract ; and ( c ) situations when no contract existed at all but the plaintiff could claim that a set of rules or certain conduct affected him prejudicially .
4 It is possible to obtain a kind of flow chart automatically as it were by using successive photographs of operator positions on the same photographic plate .
5 The only difference is that where the vaccine manufacturers use two strains of human flu viruses-one that grows well in hen 's eggs and the other with the currently circulating strain of flu virus so as to get the right antigens — the object in the latest work is to obtain a non-disease causing flu virus that will grow in humans but will also protect against the particular strain of wild type flu that is in circulation .
6 These were additional to interpretations of planation surfaces and were particularly concerned with the alternation of pluvial and arid phases in the Quaternary and their possible relationship to those of temperate latitudes ; with the sequence of valley development particularly as revealed by the chronology of alluvial deposits ; and with the significance of human activity which in some of the areas studied extended over many centuries .
7 ‘ we are persuaded that , there being no authority to prevent us , it is preferable as a matter of justice to hold parties to their clearly expressed bargain rather than to introduce for the first time in 1971 an extension of a doctrine of land law so as to deny the efficacy of that bargain .
8 This architecture will involve the use of numerical scores to encode the preferences of different system components , while still remaining ‘ consultative ’ in the realm of anaphor resolution so as to achieve the right balance between focusing and other types of knowledge .
9 She was not writing of slum life so as to shock the reader , or even indulging in nostalgia so as to entertain .
10 Again , as for sulphate , the main requirement is to keep the level fairly constant in process water so as not to affect dyeing .
11 Sir : In her article ( 'The child as a piece of disposable property' , 2 October ) , Sue Wells argues for a change in adoption law so as to bring it nearer an open adoption system , whereby adopted children remain in contact with birth parents .
12 The Civil Justice Review , on examining the arguments , recognised the need to assist people who do not qualify for legal aid funding , drew attention to the major advances that had been made in regulation policy so as probably to be able to control a contingency fee system and , on the basis of competition policy , considered whether it would be more desirable to devise more limited schemes under which lawyers would have a stake in the outcome of a case as an incentive .
13 The Commission finally agreed on Dec. 21 , 1989 , after some years of often bitter disagreement , on a formula for determining whether cross-border corporate mergers within the EC should be subject to vetting by the Commissioner for competition policy so as to determine whether they would result in an unduly large market share for the newly merged companies ( for earlier drafts see p. 36310 ) .
14 Education on this and other health risks of cigarette smoking is often persuasive for the general population but would be ineffective for nicotine addiction just as education on other specific health risks is ineffective in other forms of addictive disease .
15 MR JUSTICE MILLETT said that the particular question was whether a decision of a commons commissioner that certain land was not registrable as common land because it formed part of a highway was capable of giving rise to an estoppel per rem judicatam so as to preclude the landowner from afterwards asserting , in proceedings unconnected with the register , that the land in question did not form part of a highway .
16 ‘ Firms look on maternity leave just as they would a skiing holiday .
17 How about us trying to get on Standing Room Only as well ?
18 Not going to bus stop tonight as well .
19 Authors of such reforms believe that greater diversity could be achieved by imposing restrictions on rules of ownership , by imposing levies on advertising revenue so as to create a pool of funds for alternative publications , and generally by controlling free-market forces .
20 When it was born rationing was a part of everyday life and people queued quietly for health care just as in the war they had queued for food .
21 However , the major task of service development involved field level identification of needs and opportunities , followed by close liaison with staff at County Hall so as to shape and influence the normal planning of capital and recurrent programmes within , and beyond , the social services department .
22 SHOOTING and shouting will be the key factors for Portsmouth at Villa Park tonight as they attempt to finish with a bang in a season which , after promising so much , could end in double disappointment .
23 In a speech on 17 December 1945 Kim stressed the necessity for creating a wide range of party organisations in factories , enterprises and villages with the formulation of suitable criteria for party membership so as to eliminate some of the dubious elements which had recently joined the party .
24 To prepare human transcription factors , S100 from HeLa cells was fractionated by phosphocellulose chromatography essentially as described ( 1 ) .
25 These were also modified by linker addition so as to contain a BamHI recognition sequence .
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