Example sentences of "[adv] as [to-vb] [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The drafter should therefore draft clauses so as to maximise the chances of severance : the easiest way to do that is to draft separate limitations in separate sub-clauses . |
| 2 | The advice suggested : ‘ we must try , by adopting a uniformly more robust and aggressive approach , to recover some lost ground ’ and accused the Divisional Court ‘ almost invariably ’ of looking for errors or ambiguities so as to upset the determinations of adjudicators . |
| 3 | What is given in the following pages may be regarded as a skeleton , to be clothed so as to suit the conditions of a particular report . |
| 4 | The accounts will be prepared on a consolidated basis so as to incorporate the results and assets and liabilities of the company and each of its subsidiary undertakings , all of which are to be made up to [ Transfer date ] . |
| 5 | The accounts will be prepared on a consolidated basis so as to incorporate the results and assets and liabilities of the company and each of its subsidiary undertakings , all of which are to be made up to [ Transfer date ] . |
| 6 | The cross-rails are then rotated so as to tip the samples into the resin pots . |
| 7 | When , a year later , with paintings such as Man with Violin , Braque 's Cubism reached a second climax of complexity and became also highly difficult to read or interpret , one senses that it was not owing to the excitement of working with a new , more abstract technique as it had been with Picasso , but because his interest in elaborately breaking up the picture surface so as to analyse the relationships between the objects and the space surrounding them , slowly and inevitably led him to this kind of painting . |
| 8 | Certainly Disraeli and Gladstone thrived on the electoral reform of the 1860s and quickly learned how to discipline their followers and manage them so as to translate the wishes of the executive into votes in the House . |
| 9 | 7.5.1.1 the Centre or any part of the Centre or its essential accesses or services are damaged or destroyed [ by any of the Insured Risks ] [ or otherwise ] so as to render the Premises or any part of them unfit for occupation or use and |
| 10 | Pan-pipes ( see SB 27 ) ; when played by street-musicians they would often be fastened round the neck so as to leave the hands free to beat a drum or play some other percussion instrument . |
| 11 | It is said to function through the mechanism of the take-over bid so as to allocate the assets of companies to those managers who can put them to their best use , thereby disciplining managers to maximize profits or face the threat of a take-over bid ousting them from their jobs . |
| 12 | In order to secure a " constitutional premiership " that is less powerful and more accountable to the party and parliament , there are those within the Labour Party who would wish to change the British constitution so as to restrict the powers of a Prime Minister . |
| 13 | The driver , who was normally employed as a fitter , but had some driving experience with the Corporation , was acting as a relief driver and was found to be principally to blame for the accident , because of his lack of experience , which resulted in his letting the car take the curve at too great a speed and the conductor for applying the hand brake at his end so as to lock the wheels ; he had received no instruction on the proper procedure . |
| 14 | One can only speculate about the line the UK legislature would take , should it address itself to this problem , except that it is not too difficult to predict that the present administration would change the law so as to minimise the protections afforded to the worker . |
| 15 | Although a few years since Sunday Caddies were mentioned , they were still controversial , and in 1925 the Harpsden Parish Church of St Margaret sought to ban them under 14 years of age , so as to improve the chances of their attending Sunday School and Church . |
| 16 | The 1988–89 Committee was particularly anxious that as much coverage as possible should be given to Parliament on regional news and current affairs programmes , so as to improve the prospects of Members being seen at work by their constituents . |
| 17 | Like last year , it also seeks a disapplication of the pre-VXKVK rights on a rights issue so as to allow the Directors , when making a rights issue , to exclude or make such other arrangements as may be appropriate to resolve legal or practical problems which might for example arise with overseas shareholders . |
| 18 | Economic life moves in cycles of peaks and troughs , and we must take advantage of the peaks so as to withstand the pressures of the troughs . |
| 19 | They report their statements , analyse their actions , and re-create their thoughts , so as to convey the reasons which account for why each step was taken rather than any other . |
| 20 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 21 | Those looking for dwarves may sprinkle soft flour near a likely place at twilight , so as to study the footprints found there in the morning . |
| 22 | He indicated the group which had now assembled beside the barge and made brief introductions , so as to permit the officers to pay formal respects . |
| 23 | Alternatively , they submit that the injunction should be varied in order to give effect to the mandatory terms of section 39 , so as to permit the defendants to comply with the notice . |
| 24 | The defendants applied to have the plaintiffs ' actions struck out on the ground that the proper forum for any claim against them was Scotland and that the special jurisdiction laid down in articles 5 and 6 of the Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters 1968 , scheduled to the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982did not apply so as to permit the defendants to be sued in England , notwithstanding that they were domiciled in Scotland . |
| 25 | They are likely to argue that the structures we use are ‘ overblown ’ and pitched so as to overestimate the costs of running a unitary City-based authority . |
| 26 | A SHROUD , is composed of a peculiar kind of flannel , woven on purpose , and called shrouding flannel ; it is made of a breadth and a half , full length , so as to cover the feet ; one seam is sewed up , leaving the other open behind , like a pinafore ; slits are cut for arm-holes , and plain long sleeves , without gussets set in ; the front is gathered at the waist , and drawn up into a narrow piece ; this is twice repeated , at intervals of three nails down the skirt , upon each of these gatherings , round the neck and at the wrists , a kind of border of the same flannel , punched at the edge in a pattern , is plaited , and an edging of the same is made at the bottom . |
| 27 | The scope of L Detachment should be extended so as to cover the functions of all existing Special Service units existing [ sic ] in the Middle East , as well as any other Special Service tasks which may require carrying out . |
| 28 | 15.2 If a Party defaults in its obligation so as to jeopardise the objectives of the Project , and if the defaulting Party fails to cure its default within 60 days of a written request from the other Parties ( the Project Manager ) so to do , then the defaulting Party 's right to continue participating in the Project shall ( subject to the prior obtaining of any necessary consents from the Secretary of State ) be terminated . |
| 29 | Yet he was to say that the entire enterprise of The Cantos was undertaken so as to uncover the reasons why war happens , so as to preclude its happening again . |
| 30 | The second is the lack of personnel who are trained in geography ( so as to understand the problems of spatial analysis ) and who have the necessary skills to understand and appreciate the uses of computers in solving those problems . |