Example sentences of "[noun sg] so [subord] [to-vb] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acrow Ltd. obtained an injunction to restrain an American company , S.I. , from acting in breach of contract so as to impede Acrow 's manufacture of machinery under licence from S.I.S.I. purported to ignore the injunction and instructed Rex Chainbelt , suppliers of components for Acrow 's process , to cease supply . |
| 2 | The House of Lords held that the board alone , and not a committee of the board , could grant special payments to a director so as to bind Guinness . |
| 3 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 4 | This is in marked contrast to the position before last September when the priority was to kill off inflation so as to preserve Britain 's competitive position within the ERM in the expectation that growth would recover as a consequence . |
| 5 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 6 | American industrialists , critical of the performance of the occupation , had urged a reversal of policy so as to increase Japan 's capacity to stand on her own feet and not to receive excessive subsidies from the United States . |