Example sentences of "[adv] as [verb] any [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The practice is for the second copy of the Request to be retained in the files of the Central Authority as a record of its action in the matter , and for the second copy of the document itself to be returned with the completed Certificate of service so as to eliminate any doubt as to which document is covered by the Certificate .
2 The Articles also permitted the Board to delegate any of the powers vested in it to a committee and defined ‘ the Board ’ so as to include any committee authorised by the Board to act on its behalf .
3 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 .
4 In McEllistrim v The Ballymacelligott Co-op Agricultural & Dairy Society [ 1919 ] AC 548 a co-operative society had changed its rules so as to prevent any member from selling milk other than to the society .
5 The first issue before us , as it was before Thorpe J. , was whether Parliament had , by section 8 of the Family Law Reform Act 1969 , conferred on a minor over the age of 16 years an absolute right to refuse medical treatment , in which case the limitation of the court 's inherent jurisdiction exemplified by A. v. Liverpool City Council [ 1982 ] A.C. 363 would have operated so as to preclude any intervention by the court .
6 Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity .
7 These people may of course want to keep their knowledge secret so as to avoid any involvement in criminal proceedings , which is not helpful to creditors and to credit managers wanting to know what is to be salvaged from the wreck .
8 He had taken the precaution of oiling its mechanism along with the door hinges earlier that day , so as to avoid any noise that would alert the occupant of the room .
9 They had n't got as far as stating any intention on that subject — for the simple reason that marriage had n't been part of the plan .
10 If there is a possibility of the authority in question being overruled , it is more important than ever to mention its status in the judicial hierarchy , as well as stating any objections that have been urged against it .
11 All these sections required rewriting , reclassifying and indexing as well as updating any cross-references to the old benefits throughout the information system .
12 As it spread , its uses diversified so fast as to make any introduction to twelfth-century sources on the scale attempted in the earlier parts of the book ( pp. 17–26 , 124–32 ) impossible .
13 And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag .
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