Example sentences of "[vb pp] so as [to-vb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " A money award can be calculated so as to make good a financial loss " : per Lord Morris in West v Shephard [ 1964 ] AC at p345 . |
| 2 | In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) . |
| 3 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
| 4 | With effect from the general election of 1965 West German electoral law was amended so as to impose stricter limits on variations in constituency magnitudes . |
| 5 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
| 6 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 7 | This contrast may be more apparent than real , however , for new technologies of birth and reproduction may alter the biologically given so as to make possible a changed perspective that would have been inconceivable in the past . |
| 8 | The words used will be interpreted according to the so-called " golden rule " : they will be given their ordinary grammatical and literal meaning unless that produces absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy , when the literal meaning can be modified so as to avoid that absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy . |
| 9 | It can then be located so as to provide convenient armchair control . |
| 10 | Having obtained the poles of , the relevant physical transfer function is deduced by rejecting poles in the positive half of the s-plane and a network is synthesised so as to generate that transfer function . |
| 11 | In a radically different approach to filter design , a filter is synthesised so as to provide some preconceived functional form of frequency response that exhibits certain desirable features . |
| 12 | This was followed in 1988 by a reform of the Community Budget in which steps were taken to shift expenditure from agricultural to the structural funds , that is those concerned with regional and social matters , and the expenditure rules were recast so as to concentrate such structural spending on the poorest regions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The second hypothesis of this paper is that patterns of regularity in the semantic net can be exploited so as to generate meaningful , linear documents . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |
| 17 | This chapter has been organized so as to describe three main tours of the island , as well as a trip to Curral das Freiras . |
| 18 | Broadly , and allowing for over-simplification of the two books , Mr Kee and Mr Mullin allege that the confessions were beaten out of them by the police interrogating them , and that the forensic tests were either doctored so as to appear positive , or were otherwise unreliable . |
| 19 | Our audit has been performed so as to provide reasonable assurance that the financial statements are free from material error . |
| 20 | Using the Churchill amendment as a model , the words ‘ exposed to view ’ could be deleted and replaced so as to limit such exclusion to ‘ any part of that matter which is neither visible nor accessible to persons under the age of 18 , or which , if so accessible , is not kept in a wrapping which , while intact , prevents that matter from being seen ’ . |
| 21 | But his whole account can perhaps be understood so as to avoid such objections . |
| 22 | NAB has decided that the 1983–4 pool should be distributed so as to accord equal treatment to the polytechnics and the colleges of higher education . |
| 23 | Here a transfer price of £50 has been set so as to give each division some of the profit . |
| 24 | Information must be focused so as to serve precise management tasks . |
| 25 | Given that industrial democracy , defined as the ultimate right and duty of the men and women working in an industrial enterprise to call management to account for its performance , and , if that performance does not satisfy them , to replace management , is desirable in principle and as a means of making the efficient conduct of the enterprise their natural concern ; recognising that the rights of use attaching to ownership , whether in the private or public sector , are inalienable ; recognising the value in general of competition as a means of keeping production and provision sensitive to public needs and tastes , and as a means of relating the distribution of resources to them ; to consider ( i ) in what sort of industrial organisation would industrial democracy be feasible ; ( ii ) how far and in what circumstances would the adoption of such a form of organisation be feasible ; ( iii ) by what means should its adoption be promoted and how long would it take to establish it as a characteristic feature in the industrial scene ; ( iv ) what part should trade unions play in its promotion and adoption and what changes would that part require in their functions as they are commonly understood ; and ( v ) where in the case of a particular industry , or organisation , the general interest requires that accountability should be to the public at large , considered for example as consumers or users of goods produced or beneficiaries from services provided , what compensatory measures should be introduced so as to make good as far as possible the permanent denial to employees of a right which is in principle generally desirable ? |
| 26 | There remains , however , a question of principle which has not been fully considered : should the fault element in offences against the person be widened so as to criminalize some negligent causing of physical harm ? |
| 27 | One major problem is that if the offence is defined so as to include all touchings to which the victim does not consent , it seems difficult to exclude everyday physical contact with others . |
| 28 | Management can plan projects such as hotel maintenance and redecorating ; advertising campaigns can be directed so as to improve low occupancy percentages . |
| 29 | Again , a minimum data value of zero is specified so as to eliminate those countries for which no data are available . |
| 30 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) that , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , the rule excluding reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction should be relaxed so as to permit such reference where ( a ) legislation was ambiguous or obscure or led to absurdity , ( b ) the material relied upon consisted of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as was necessary to understand such statements and their effect and ( c ) the statements relied upon were clear ( post , pp. 1039C , G , 1040B , D–E , 1042C–D , H — 1043A , 1056A–C , 1061E–F , 1063F–G ) . |