Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , the working pattern of these bodyguards , so it transpired over the following days , entailed one or the other of them going up to sleep at unusual hours so as to ensure at least one was on duty throughout the night . |
| 2 | When BAT Industries , ICI and others are divesting activities as raiders appear ; when Courtaulds and Racal are divesting or splitting activities so as to focus on their core businesses ; the time has surely come to think again about corporate and other strategies . |
| 3 | What Kane proposes is the strategy of ENTRYISM — which in its original connotation was a strategy of entering mainstream political parties undertaken by revolutionary groups so as to subvert from within . |
| 4 | Families are to be encouraged to live in their own homes rather than to rely on the state ( in the form of local authorities ) for the provision of council housing . |
| 5 | 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 ) . |
| 6 | Reform of the United Nations so as to work towards greater representativeness , accountability and independence . |
| 7 | This involves attempting to put yourself in the consumer 's shoes so as to identify with their hopes and expectations and finding ways of meeting these . |
| 8 | You failed to connect the various elements together or to move through the detail to the larger issues of the painting . |
| 9 | Railways are a type of transport that fall easily under central control , and whose construction may even intensify political centralism , because of the rationality of disposing lines so as to converge at a central point . |
| 10 | Its purpose is to diagnose and remedy weaknesses rather than to exclude from further study the students who do not perform well . |
| 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 | According to Richard Prebble , then Minister for State-owned Enterprises , the two companies would reduce their holding in Telecom to 24.95 per cent each over the next three years so as to keep in line with the government 's planned 49.9 per cent limit on foreign ownership of the company . |
| 13 | This forces you to reflect on successes rather than to bask in them . |
| 14 | Organise your affairs so as to get to the patient quickly , or decide not to go to the patient and use routinely the 999 service , but do have a practice policy . |
| 15 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 16 | In a theatre he frequently took refuge in a lavatory — not to solve his omnipresent bowel problems necessarily but to escape from autograph-hunters . |
| 17 | The errors found involved reporting abstracts and correspondence as full papers ; co-authorship represented as sole authorship ; papers only tenuously ‘ in press ’ reported as having been published ; falsification of publication dates so as to appear within the review period ; and totally fabricated references . |
| 18 | The errors found involved reporting abstracts and correspondence as full papers ; co-authorship represented as sole authorship ; papers only tenuously ‘ in press ’ reported as having been published ; falsification of publication dates so as to appear within the review period ; and totally fabricated references . |
| 19 | His project is to discover the series of computations that the visual system performs on the input-pairs so as to arrive at an interpretation of the ( 2-D ) array in terms of ( 3-D ) replacement , motion , or change . |
| 20 | The Board is very conscious of the need to be able to service its activities efficiently and to respond to the demands of its customers and markets . |
| 21 | What we have in ( 5 ) might be improved in a number of ways so as to deal with questions and indeed objections , and thereby complicated and indeed greatly complicated . |
| 22 | ‘ … the main idea is that social phenomena are seen as existing in relation to each other , and continually developing in and through such relations so as to form at various phases contradictory forces that generate qualitatively new formations . |
| 23 | He had been invited either to refute the allegations publicly or to withdraw from the elections , and reportedly chose to take the second option . |
| 24 | This chapter will review recent debates so as to get to grips with some issues and ideas which are helpful in understanding the situation in North Shields and Cramlington . |
| 25 | In order to maximize the use of existing resources , the enforcement regime must impose heavy sanctions so as to compensate for the relatively low risk of detection and prosecution . |
| 26 | Often , it is true , the commissioners drew the new boundaries so as to come to a point in the village where the ancient homestead lay , so that the farmer need not be disturbed from his old home . |
| 27 | The woman whom he paid for her favours so as to learn of that enchantment that could fuddle men and women ? |
| 28 | An " unseen " exam paper allows different examiners to mark the same answers independently and to arrive at a fairly consistent and impartial assessment of the candidate 's overall performance and potential . |
| 29 | Those of us from the South who left behind tree-strewn roads and gardens after the devastation of the recent October storm , were delighted to be in such beautiful surroundings again and to meet with our Lilleshall friends from other parts of the country . |
| 30 | Contractors Contractors must abide by all relevant Company rules and statutory regulations concerning environmental issues so as to comply with our environmental policy objectives . |