Example sentences of "[adv] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There 's a ‘ chat-and-pat ’ service ; staff call your hound by name , and tiptoe past your room at night so as to let sleeping dogs lie ; your dog 's photograph is taken in the hotel ; the hotel manager appears for a final ‘ wave-and-wag ’ ; there 's a VIP service for show-winning dogs ; and a discount for families whose dogs are better behaved than the owners ! |
| 32 | This move can be interpreted either as yet another instance of poor central-local ties or as deliberate slowness so as to let more money flow into public funds . |
| 33 | The purpose of this is to gain market power so as to charge higher margins . |
| 34 | Dean Acheson informed various American ambassadors in late April 1949 that the Japanese government had to be given more authority so as to re-establish civilian government properly . |
| 35 | Encourage and facilitate the interchange of environmental technology throughout ICI and its subsidiary and related companies , so as to promote best practice and sustain continuous improvement in environmental performance . |
| 36 | This cost can be direct , for example in the form of additional accounting staff salaries , or it can be indirect , where other activities are neglected so as to put more effort into the final accounts . |
| 37 | But , as we shall see , in Marxist scholarship there are those who have modified Marx original theory so as to accommodate these changes in a way which is consistent with the original insight about the determined nature of the locus of power in capitalist societies . |
| 38 | They could not rely on support from all of their members and the TUC nor could they call out the membership so as to hit other newspapers and so bring indirect pressure to bear on Shah . |
| 39 | An application by the council to amend its statement of claim so as to plead special damage was refused by French J. on 31 July 1991 . |
| 40 | The French writer Hippolyte Taine , in the not on the whole very friendly account he published of a journey to the Pyrenees in the middle of the last century , tells , all too vividly , an unpleasant story of a fourteenth-century mayor of Bayonne who tried to extend his jurisdiction up-river as far as the tide went , so as to stop Basque smugglers from defrauding him , and who tied a number of local Basque gentry to the arches of a bridge and watched the tide come up and slowly drown them . |
| 41 | There are cases , including the authorities to which Cooke P. referred , in which an order apparently final has been treated as interlocutory so as to deprive a litigant of a right of appeal or so as to restrict such right . |
| 42 | 1.3 Conclusion One can conclude that : ( 1 ) The following classes of case are usually subject to the doctrine : ( a ) employment contracts regarding the period after the contract has ended ; ( b ) contracts analogous to ( a ) such as some agency agreements and partnership agreements ; ( c ) business sales contracts which preclude the vendor from competing with his former business ; ( d ) solus agreements ; and ( e ) any situation , not necessarily involving a contract , in which it appears a party has acted unreasonably , unfairly or oppressively so as to restrict another party , usually the plaintiff in the action , in the exercise of his trade , profession or employment . |
| 43 | It is n't and you do n't have to stab at the keyboard so as to press both keys at exactly the same time . |
| 44 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 45 | In typical elitist manner Schumpeter describes these notions as both unrealistic and dangerous ; but a major difference from classical elite theorists is that Schumpeter wants to redefine democracy so as to preserve some recognition of the fact of popular participation and to take account of the inevitably limited nature of this participation . |
| 46 | Similar problems may also be experienced when an accounting reference period is changed , since s 225(6) of the CA1985 provides that : ‘ An accounting reference period may not in any case ( exception if administration order is in force ) be extended so as to exceed 18 months and a notice under this section is ineffective if the current or previous accounting reference period as extended in accordance with the notice would exceed that limit . ’ |
| 47 | Any such notice must state whether the current ( or preceding , when allowed ) reference period is to be shortened , so that it will end on the first occurrence of the accounting reference date , or lengthened , so that it will end on its second occurrence , but unless an administration order is in force the period can not be extended so as to exceed 18 months . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | This view was also taken in the earlier case of Bainbridge v Chertsey Urban District Council where an injunction was granted , restraining the defendant council from conducting their sewage farm so as to cause offensive smells and vapours in the plaintiff 's premises . |
| 50 | The most dramatic feature about the genes mutated so as to cause muscular dystrophy and cystic fibrosis , however , is that they were discovered by reverse genetics — neither dystrophin nor cystic fibrosis transmembrane receptor were known to exist in the body before they were discovered by Kunkel and Tsui respectively . |
| 51 | This cerebral dominance hypothesis is able to explain the results of an experiment by Barton , Goodglass and Shai ( 1965 ) who presented three-letter words in a vertical orientation so as to minimise putative scanning mechanisms . |
| 52 | The records typically understate the concentration of wealth , for they rely on individual declarations which are manipulated and presented so as to minimise apparent wealth holdings . |
| 53 | The Americans were anxious to see the Russians engaged in the Far East as soon as possible so as to minimise American losses . |
| 54 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
| 55 | The radical agenda runs something like this : Labour ought to begin talks with the Liberal Democrats on PR ; negotiate electoral pacts with that party , so that they can achieve a majority in 1996 , not just in order to form a government , but to introduce PR ; abandon links with the trade unions , eschew egalitarian tax policies , perhaps even abandon the name ‘ Labour ’ , so as to disavow any claim of being a party that primarily represents a working class that , in self-identification , is constantly dwindling . |
| 56 | Certain types of agreement will seldom if ever qualify for exemption , for example those which restrict competition so as to affect inter-state trade and contain export bans , maintain retail prices or lead to absolute territorial protection of national markets . |
| 57 | Management can plan projects such as hotel maintenance and redecorating ; advertising campaigns can be directed so as to improve low occupancy percentages . |
| 58 | There is provision in the Education Act , under special circumstances , for the suspension of all or part of the National Curriculum , so as to allow developmental work to take place . |
| 59 | Most data collection and analysis was already available from previous research , and the aim here was to increase empirical and conceptual depth so as to allow critical engagement with current policy debate over housing provision in Britain . |
| 60 | The up to date Medical Report should be obtained now so as to allow adequate time for a Minute of Amendment or other investigation before the Proof . |