Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] so as [verb] " 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 | ( 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ( 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 . ) |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | He issued the famous Tamworth Manifesto , nominally addressed to his constituents , but actually communicated to the London daily press so as to operate as a programme submitted to the whole electorate . |
| 21 | for instance , it might be possible to introduce genes coding for specific receptors so as to alter the stomach or intestinal lining and provide treatment for ulcers . |
| 22 | The psychoanalyst uses a more general framework of knowledge derived from other analyses , and applies the more general concepts to the individual case so as to make sense of the development of the person . |
| 23 | This being so , specific rehabilitation programmes for people with mental disorder frequently use a therapeutic approach which practises and rehearses ordinary activities so as to help people regain confidence in managing the business of life . |
| 24 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 25 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 26 | If we accept justice as a political virtue we want our legislators and other officials to distribute material resources and protect civil liberties so as to secure a morally defensible outcome . |
| 27 | Even the domestic cat , when it first sees a mouse , does not immediately rush to capture its prey ; instead , it waits until the appropriate moment so as to achieve the highest chance of success . |
| 28 | How could minute quantities of an injected peptide be guided to and then enter the appropriate neuron so as to code for the new memory ? |
| 29 | But we should note , too , that language development itself , the acquisition of knowledge of symbolic meanings , is activated by the need to extend schematic knowledge so as to cope more effectively with the social environment . |
| 30 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |