Example sentences of "[to-vb] [adv] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In either case the human intervention must be a very high level one based on complex diagnosis and innovative design-type thinking about how best to cope so as to avoid a catastrophe . |
| 2 | W what happened when things began to go down as regards the ships then ? |
| 3 | That 's a really fine line right there because some bands tend to come across as doing a speed metal/jazz fusion . |
| 4 | Out of nerves and hero worship , he had three double Scotches before setting out and two more on the way , and then made himself self-destructively late by going into a greengrocer 's to buy some mint to chew so as to disperse the Scotch . |
| 5 | However forward-thinking the penologists , criminologists and bureaucrats in government departments may be , their views should not be allowed to prevail so as to impose a sentencing regime which is incomprehensible or unacceptable to right-thinking people generally . |
| 6 | If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome . |
| 7 | But a member of the cynical tendency jeers that after all this brouhaha , a Prime Minister who 's obsessed with political safety , will only allow minor pain , though back benchers will be encouraged to squeal so as to impress the markets . |
| 8 | Positional accuracy is achieved by means of the equal numbers of teeth on the stator and rotor , which tend to align so as to reduce the reluctance of the stack magnetic circuit . |
| 9 | If any such liabilities are debts incurred for the purposes of Target 's trade in respect of which a deduction has been allowed in computing the profits of the trade within s94 TA 1988 , and the vendor releases or procures the release of Target from its obligation to repay so as to increase the price Newco pays for Target , Target could be treated for tax purposes as receiving a substantial amount of taxable income . |
| 10 | persuading a supplier 's lorry driver not to deliver so as to disrupt a commercial contract ) is protected if the attendance is lawful under the 1974 Act , but there is no protection for ‘ secondary picketing , ’ i. e . |
| 11 | ‘ Shut the window , please ’ is said in a situation where the speaker rather expects the hearer to act so as to fulfil a certain sort of wish of his , if he indicates that he has it by an imperative sentence . |
| 12 | Article 18 imposes an obligation on a State which has signed but not yet ratified a treaty , or which has ratified a convention prior to its entry into force , not to act so as to defeat the objects and purposes of the convention . |