Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] as [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | This section has been applied so as to cover the administration of a drug which causes harm to the victim 's metabolism by overstimulation , if D 's motive for this is malevolent rather than benevolent . |
| 32 | Only very rarely will the conditions be met so as to enable the new firm to act for one of the litigating clients let alone all of them . |
| 33 | The empirical work may be seen broadly as implementing the simple framework set out in Section 9–1 ( applied to current rather than lifetime income ) . |
| 34 | Written by MIT Professor Paul Krugman , formerly on the staff of the White House Council of Economic Advisers , and Professor Edward Graham , formerly in the office of international investment at the US Treasury , and later at the OECD in Paris , the report will be scanned carefully as indicating the current thinking of the Washington policy-making establishment . |
| 35 | However , such groups possess a wider significance if they are seen either as representing the last stages of a long , discreditable history , or as one of the means by which this history is transmitted into the future . |
| 36 | In applying this rule the words of the statute will be interpreted according to their natural , ordinary and grammatical meaning , but where such an interpretation produces a manifestly absurd result , the words will be interpreted so as to avoid the absurdity . |
| 37 | The UK agreements are not concerned with principle or with the ‘ spirit ’ of the agreement : they are trickily worded and legalistically interpreted so as to maintain the maximum freedom to advertise . |
| 38 | The contract will therefore seek : 1 to define the client 's obligations and , so far as possible , to minimise them ; 2 to define the scope of the contract by defining which statements form part of it ; 3 to minimise the scope for variation of the contract duties , by defining the authority of the client 's representatives to make statements binding on it , or to vary the contract ; 4 to minimise the likelihood of the client being in breach of contract , by defining the client 's obligations in flexible terms : for instance , the quantity of goods to be delivered may be subject to tolerances ; or the contract may provide for the time for delivery to be extended in certain situations ; 5 to minimise the extent of the client 's liability for any breach it commits : for instance , by excluding liability for certain kinds of loss , or by placing a financial ceiling on liability ; 6 to define the obligations of the client 's trading partners ; 7 to define the consequences of non-performance by the client 's trading partners ; 8 to provide machinery to encourage prompt performance by the client 's trading partners : for instance , a seller may require interest on late payments , or offer discounts for early payment ; a buyer may contract for the right to withhold payment until satisfactory performance ; 9 to allow the client to use procedurally simple enforcement methods : for instance , terms of sale should be drafted so as to allow the seller to bring a liquidated claim for the price of the goods ; 10 to provide the client with security against non-performance by its trading partners : thus terms of sale are likely to seek to provide the seller with security against non-payment , for instance by means of a retention of title clause ; terms of purchase will seek to minimise the buyer 's exposure by allowing some or all of the price to be retained against satisfactory performance . |
| 39 | Dismissive of the ‘ corridor opportunites ’ , he fails to mention that , so far , the Foreign Secretaries of the UK and Argentina have had their first meeting since the 1982 Falklands War , that the Israeli and Soviet Foreign Ministers have got together as has the US Secretary of State with his Israeli and Egyptian counterparts , or that the two German Foreign Ministers have held extensive talks on the current crisis — all with apparently good results : quite useful when several of these countries have no diplomatic relations with each other . |
| 40 | The knowledge that you possess must be displayed so as to show the examiner that you have the capacity of logical thought and can build further on your present state of development and knowledge . |
| 41 | expressed the opinion , concurred in by the other members of the court , that a contractual right of one party to an action to have the costs of the action paid by another party to the action could not override the discretion as to costs given to the court by Ord. 62 , r. 3(2) and section 51(1) of the Act of 1981 , but that where an order for payment of the costs was sought , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised so as to reflect the contractual right . |
| 42 | The disk is round to pentagonal , delicate and frequently damaged so as to obscure the shape ; covered with skin without any plates ; disk diameter up to 25 mm . |
| 43 | It is very important that the condition be recognised so as to avoid the expense and trouble of investigations and multiple consultant referrals . |
| 44 | After a while the leaf began to bend , and in some hours the end of the leaf was so bent inwards as to touch the base . |
| 45 | In the 1914 period the custom was to turn the aircraft upside down and then to load the wings with bags of sand or lead shot distributed so as to represent the various aerodynamic loads which occur under the worst conditions , such as pulling out of a dive . |
| 46 | 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 . |
| 47 | But leaving that aside , as I have already explained , the court will not be ‘ hearing and determining the swap cases together ’ and I do not think those words can be stretched so as to include the present procedural arrangements . |
| 48 | This , it is proposed , should be reformulated so as to replace the expression ‘ merchantable quality ’ with ‘ acceptable quality ’ and to make it clear that it covers the fitness of the goods for all their common purposes , their safety , durability , freedom from minor defects and appearance and finish . |
| 49 | In other words , the principle is that ‘ within a fixed budget , health care resources should be allocated so as to achieve the greatest aggregate of well-being for patients . ’ |
| 50 | In The Middlemen ( 1961 ) this mediatory role is magnified so as to become the primary focus of the novel . |
| 51 | To convert it to a fluxgate transducer , the excitation is increased so as to force the core into saturation on alternate peaks . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | This means that initial conditions need to be specified so as to provide the data for the first set of calculations . |
| 54 | It was held that the clause did not protect the owners against liability for negligence : they could be liable either strictly , for failing to supply a cycle fit for its purpose , or in negligence ; it was therefore construed only as covering the strict liability . |
| 55 | Cost of sales is also adjusted to reflect these deductions , except that only equal annual charges for debt service are deducted so as to spread the financing costs over the remaining lives of the respective sales contracts rather than the uneven repayment schedules established for the loans . |
| 56 | as if they 've ever been left behind as regards the treatment of black people ! |
| 57 | There are good reasons for distinguishing it both from the level of the meanings of expressions , as will become apparent later in the text ( see in particular Chapter 6 ) , and from whatever more general non-linguistic level of mental activity has to take responsibility for human perception of external phenomena ; a sufficient reason is that speakers of the language are well aware that they can seek to identify one and the same entity or property by using the meanings of various different expressions : Examples like ( 22 ) are familiarly put forward as showing the distinction between meaning and reference ; they may serve that purpose but that is quite a different matter . |
| 58 | In each of these cases , once the entitlement had been established the court would have power under paragraph ( a ) to order the register to be rectified so as to reflect the entitlement . |
| 59 | The cross-rails are then rotated so as to tip the samples into the resin pots . |
| 60 | The weights used should be increased once 3 sets of 10 repetitions have been achieved so as to make the weight training progressive . |