Example sentences of "[noun pl] so [subord] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each NIC has attempted to develop a broad industrial base to satisfy domestic demand and diversify exports so as to reduce reliance on a few major primary commodities , e.g. coffee , meat , rubber . |
| 2 | The main purpose of the costings for the latter years is to identify probable peaks and troughs in the overall programme , which can be smoothed out by phasing in major projects so as to avoid clashes . |
| 3 | It is ICI 's policy to manage all of its activities so as to give benefit to society , ensuring that they meet relevant laws and regulations ; that they are acceptable to the community at large ; and that their environmental impact is reduced to a practicable minimum . |
| 4 | The actin cable provides a novel way for epidermal cells to coordinate their activities so as to close gaps , fulfilling their function as a self-repairing barrier layer . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The Senate Budget Committee duly reported out reconciliation instructions on 23 March 1981 requiring fourteen Senate authorizing committees to alter programmes so as to cut $36 billion from the fiscal year 1982 budget . |
| 7 | But it was certainly not my intention to say that the ASB in general and on other accounting questions was moving towards unfudgeable figures : indeed , the indications are that they will continue to ask companies and auditors to make judgments so as to distinguish case from case . |
| 8 | Other duties of the maître are defined in the article ‘ Ensemble ’ : ‘ It is for maîtres de musique , conducteurs and chefs d'orchestre above all to guide , or hold back , or hurry along the musicians so as to obtain ensemble everywhere . ’ |
| 9 | All such options need to be examined for their effectiveness in reducing emissions so as to achieve air quality standards , as well as for their technical and economic feasibility , the speed with which they can be implemented , and their enforceability . |
| 10 | It is for the courts to interpret those words so as to give effect to that purpose . |
| 11 | Although a court will generally strive to resolve uncertainties and ambiguities so as to give effect to a commercial contract wherever possible ( especially where the agreement is already partly executed ) , uncertainty or ambiguity may lead a court to conclude that the term is too uncertain to be enforceable , and in extreme cases the whole contract may be held to be void . |
| 12 | Using reported experiences , we aimed to draw together good practice and make recommendations to the organisations on how best to manage secondments so as to help secondees adapt more rapidly to their new jobs and , in due course , to the return of their former posts . |
| 13 | Exclusion clauses may not , therefore , always be effective to modify fiduciary duties so as to avoid conflicts between fiduciary duties and duties imposed by regulatory rules . |
| 14 | The National Consumer Credit Federation , representing check traders , told us that the agent going from door to door , usually with long experience of working for the firm , had quite a lot of discretion over whether or not to lend , though with small firms the bosses like to keep in touch themselves , often going on collection rounds so as to see customers , and certainly weighing up doubtful cases themselves . |
| 15 | The government has also drafted a set of measures to restrain the growth of individual cash incomes so as to reduce demand for goods . |
| 16 | So , this at least is indisputable : that however it may have seemed to Cole in 1944 , justification by success has lost its validity : and the loss prompts the question whether the Movement should re-appraise its purposes so as to establish Co-operation on a broader and securer footing . |
| 17 | Cyril Ramaphosa , president of the National Union of Mineworkers and one of the group who met Mr Mandela on Tuesday , said that after their release the ANC men would demand passports so as to visit ANC leaders abroad for consultations . |
| 18 | A wide statutory definition would require exceptions so as to exclude tax avoidance ; a narrow definition would exclude many existing qualified worthy bodies , and hamper growth for the future . |
| 19 | The decision impugned is a decision by the board of Lautro on 30 October 1990 to exercise its intervention powers so as to prohibit Norwich Union Life Insurance Society ( ‘ Norwich ’ ) and three associated companies from accepting any new investment business from Winchester or from soliciting investment business from the public through Winchester or any of its representatives . |
| 20 | This process usually involved the gradual and haphazard addition of side-streets and lanes so as to provide access to land beyond the immediate frontages . |
| 21 | He aligned himself with the traditional view that the Scriptures describe unseen things by the form of visible things so as to stimulate reason in cognitive understanding , itself a spiritual reality which is an image of full contemplative knowledge . |
| 22 | Their discussion of what the press ‘ should be and do ’ reflects an East — West Cold War divide and they set out ideal , polar positions so as to highlight differences . |
| 23 | The two books contain units to match the corresponding Headway coursebooks , and a number of activities are derived from the coursebooks so as to maximize progress when the two are used in conjunction . |
| 24 | Colin Urie , of the Operations Section , is looking at ways of increasing cooperation between SCOTVEC and centres so as to reduce delays in certification . |
| 25 | There must be direct frontage access to houses , shops and workplaces and a dense mesh with frequent–unctions so as to avoid detours . |
| 26 | The Devil tempts all God 's creatures so as to keep goodness out of the world . |
| 27 | Undoubtedly it would appear to be more sensible in the longer term for cattle numbers to be limited to those which can be sustained on the winter fodder production capabilities of the farms so as to eliminate fodder purchases . |
| 28 | One can feel the painter , at first with gestures that are almost childish , and later like a strong , fully grown man , emptying his body of energy and liquids so as to leave traces to prove that he had physically existed . |
| 29 | An accurate account would have to have regard to all those instances where a remedy has been accorded by a state party simply to forestall a successful application and to those cases , also , where breach had been avoided in the first place by reason of adjustment of procedures so as to ensure compliance with the Convention . |
| 30 | First , marriage as a legal institution developed , I submit , as an essential legal first step towards amassing wealth and power by uniting partners with these attributes and endowing with legitimacy their heirs so as to guarantee inheritance according to articulated and certain principles . |