Example sentences of "[adv] as [verb] more [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | In the more commonly understood sense they have been strengthened , because they have been changed so as to obtain more convictions relating to well-publicised and hard-lobbied issues . |
| 5 | The second common motivation is the desire to increase the use of the stock — either by improving its appearance , so as to attract more users to the library , and/or by providing easier access to elements of the stock which are worthwhile , by removing the dead wood . |
| 6 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 7 | He speaks more slowly , leans more eagerly , so as to offer more opportunity to the mimics ; smiles more disarmingly at the result . |
| 8 | The activated enzyme was then supposed to eat away at the synaptic membrane so as to expose more NMDA receptor sites which , until thus exposed , remain buried in the membrane surface and hence inactive . |
| 9 | Although these work on the same principles as the above they could prove an expensive luxury as well as causing more problems than they solve . |
| 10 | ‘ As well as opening more boutiques in England , France and Germany , I 'm working on ways of making the clothes cheaper . |
| 11 | As well as adding more candidates , the draft law allows France 's seven-member privatisation commission to suggest names of investors who could form a ‘ noyau dur ’ , or stable core of shareholders , to protect privatised firms against takeover . |
| 12 | ‘ We intend to reform as well as spending more money in order to get the most out of that money for the patients . |