Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] so [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In some situations this can lead to deliberate fudging of issues so as to avoid controversy . |
| 5 | Even a prescription of the wrong remedy can sometimes affect the picture of symptoms so as to make the right remedy more obvious and easily discerned . |
| 6 | Governments had to be persuaded that they were in a position to run their eyes down a list of options so as to gauge the inflationary consequences of a particular package of demand management policies . |
| 7 | In a broader context , it can , as ideological preference may urge , be regarded either as part of the exercise in the 1860s of that liberal political wisdom which freely conceded timely advances to the advocates of change and so harnessed their energies and aspirations to the support of the general interest in the maintenance of stability and the creation of wealth in a prospering nation ; or as part of the calculated manipulation of events so as to ensure the preservation of the existing social structure against fundamental changes such as the institution of a juster order would require . |
| 8 | The courts will normally refuse to allow claims of confidentiality in respect of the names and addresses of employees so as to prevent offers of other employment being made to them by departing staff ( see Baker v Gibbons [ 1972 ] 1 WLR 693 and Searle ( GD ) & Co Ltd v Celltech Ltd [ 1982 ] FSR 92 ) . |
| 9 | The report recommended approval and development on a national basis , but with modifications so as to ensure that those taking the courses were prepared for employment . |
| 10 | There must be direct frontage access to houses , shops and workplaces and a dense mesh with frequent–unctions so as to avoid detours . |
| 11 | It can be argued that such schemes should be embodied in statutes so as to put their administration and the principles of compensation on a firm legal footing . |
| 12 | These exercises will be used on your first 3 routines , and will be incorporated in stages so as to make your training progressive and more demanding . |
| 13 | By the same token , we have to keep a watch on dates so as to see that this Eleanor is not Eleanor of Aquitaine , but her great-greatgranddaughter , Eleanor of Castile , wife of Edward I of England . |
| 14 | I have suggested that it is the function of grammar to reduce the range of meaning signalled by words so as to make them more effective in the identification of features of context , thereby providing for the increased indexical potential of lexis . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | The supernatural beings of the Sinhalese could be manipulated by humans so as to influence events , but their ethical position was ambiguous . |