Example sentences of "[noun pl] so as [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Although counting of applications continues , the issue is 1.75 times oversubscribed so far , forcing financial advisers last night to ‘ claw back ’ shares promised to overseas institutions so as to meet small investor demand .
2 Although counting of applications continues , the issue is 1.75 times oversubscribed so far , forcing financial advisers last night to ‘ claw back ’ shares promised to overseas institutions so as to meet small investor demand .
3 To be successful , entrepreneurs need to be able to identify unmet private needs and preferences which an interest group can fulfil , and then work to extend the group 's ‘ bread and butter ’ activities so as to achieve public goods bonuses for their membership .
4 The interest earned net of costs is used to purchase futures and options contracts so as to obtain maximum exposure in each quarter to any upward movement in the FT-SE Index .
5 The widening or duplication of tunnels to obviate one way working of wide barges so as to avoid long delays .
6 Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals so as to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction .
7 The crucial area of debate centres upon whether the signals from ecologically fragile and marginal areas will reach institutions and governments so as to induce appropriate innovations for those areas .
8 Instituted in order to prevent abuse by ‘ filibusters ’ , this ‘ guillotine ’ procedure has itself been abused by governments so as to curtail genuine and purposeful opposition .
9 It must so conduct affairs so as to secure full or near-full employment and that the rate of inflation will be stable and low enough to be tolerable .
10 It may be read in the conventional order , with or without the final section of ‘ dispensable ’ chapters , or in a shuffled order , interpolating the ‘ dispensable ’ chapters according to the author 's directives so as to have fresh perspectives on the events described .
11 According to Lao National Radio on that day , the conference would " examine thoroughly the performance of each financial agency and locality ; evaluate correctly the achievements made by the financial sector over the past 15 years ; and assess the current economic and financial situation and remaining problems so as to find effective measures to open the way for socio-economic development with new mechanisms " .
12 It concluded its deliberations with a series of ringing statements on the desirability of a united Europe , with some common institutions , within which ‘ the European states must transfer and merge some portion of their sovereign rights so as to secure common political and economic action for the integration and proper development of their common resources ’ .
13 If changes in conditions disrupt the precise replication of parental characters so as to yield hereditary variation , then , providing only that some of it happens to be adaptive , this will suffice in the long run for selection as a cause of adaptive species formations .
14 However , they have consistently opted to eke out a living by temporary migration and wage labour rather than leaving in such numbers so as to exceed natural population growth , and thereby ease the pressure .
15 What is important is to learn by our mistakes so as to avoid future problems .
16 In the patrilineal extended families of the Nambudiri landlord aristocrats only the eldest son was allowed to marry with full Vedic rites so as to produce legitimate children .
17 However , if each enterprise is a different company , each company being in itself a separate and distinct legal entity and thus taxed separately , the balancing of profit and loss between the enterprises so as to minimize overall tax liability can not be achieved .
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