Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] [to-vb] them [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It insisted on calling a separate meeting for the kolkhoz women , so as to persuade them of their independence from their menfolk . |
| 2 | that some concessions regarding ( a ) should be afforded to small companies so as to relieve them of burdens and expense that they might find intolerable . |
| 3 | Inflation called for an uplift in many maximum fines , with a power being conferred upon the Home Secretary to adjust financial limits in the future by order , having first obtained the approval of both Houses of Parliament , so as to keep them in step with subsequent changes in the value of money . |
| 4 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 5 | Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6 , oil and gas export prices were deregulated so as to bring them into line with world prices . |
| 6 | The Multi-National Legal Practice Rules 1991 ( ‘ MNLPR ’ ) amended rules affecting solicitors extensively , so as to apply them to registered foreign lawyers practising in partnership with solicitors in England and Wales . |
| 7 | During a series of meetings with US President Bush , the US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and the US Secretary of State James Baker , Moiseyev was informed that the USA would refuse to accept the reclassification of three Soviet motorized divisions as naval coastal units so as to exempt them from the terms of the treaty [ see p. 38027 ] . |
| 8 | Its primary concern is to find out what its customers needs and wants are so as to meet them with the highest level of customer satisfaction . |
| 9 | Attention must be paid to the age of persons with a mental handicap so as to house them in a group which respects this . |
| 10 | When the King received it he asked the Ferrars to make a similar Concordance for him of the Books of Chronicles and Kings , so as to present them as a single narrative . |
| 11 | Williamson 's theory of the firm is an attempt , following Coase , to explain the existence and internal structure of firms rather than to take them for granted . |
| 12 | Conversely , it was theoretically to the advantage of the French kings to have the Plantagenets as feudal inferiors , rather than to expel them from their remaining continental possessions . |
| 13 | A different direction is taken by projects such as DASI ( Developing Anti-Sexist Initiatives ) where the aim is ‘ to give girls a positive self-image , and make them aware of the way society controls them rather than to direct them into ‘ male ’ areas of study or work' ( Whyld 1983 , p. 303 ) . |
| 14 | Resources should be used to equip people to act in their own interests rather than to pauperise them by treating them as dependents . |
| 15 | If you do not know what documents you have and how they relate to one another , your priority should be to put them in order rather than to transfer them to an electronic system . |
| 16 | If you were prone to feeling miserable , for example , the aim is to prevent feelings of misery rather than to swop them for feelings of ecstasy . |
| 17 | I have 200m shares , nothing would please me more than to see them at £1 each . ’ |
| 18 | There are those critics of the polytechnics who regard this as a most unfortunate development and would go so far as to castigate them for betraying their primary purpose , which they see as providing for the communities in which they are located , something which of necessity can only be done primarily through part-time provision . |
| 19 | Leech was examined on 18th August 1669 to see if he was able " to instruct the youth so far as to fit them for the universities " by a panel composed of Dr. Slater , Mr. Watson ( Schoolmaster of Sutton 's Hospital ) , Mr. Holmes ( Schoolmaster of Christ 's Hospital ) , and Mr. Crumland ( a master from St. Paul 's ) . |