Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] so as [to-vb] " in BNC.

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1 Further regular meetings are intended so as to maintain the vital liaison between the carpet industry , Parliament and government , and to enable carpet manufacturers to voice their concern .
2 On these grounds , Acts of Parliament which inadvertently contradict elements of Community law are modified so as to comply with the European Communities Act .
3 One views unusual vertical arrangements with suspicion , presuming that they are made so as to prevent others entering the industry , to raise margins and thereby increase profits at the expense of consumers .
4 And if Pound so blithely overlooks that difference , does n't that mean that we have in him a critic who attends to form , to style , at the expense of what that form and that style are used so as to convey ?
5 The treaty commitments are interlocked so as to create ‘ the component parts of the political settlement . ’
6 The following paragraphs are numbered so as to correspond with the records of the file PMMLIB.GIMMSMAP1 .
7 These journeys , operated by Edinburgh Transport and S.M.T. under contract to Lothian Regional Council , are specified so as to give residents of Ratho an opportunity to reach the nearest large shopping and business centre , which happens to be Edinburgh .
8 As we have seen , the realization of this objective requires that a broad variety of mechanisms are institutionalized so as to ensure that the business of government is conducted in accordance with the rule of law .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 It therefore becomes imperative that the scriptures be interpreted so as to form a consistent whole .
12 It is very important that the condition be recognised so as to avoid the expense and trouble of investigations and multiple consultant referrals .
13 The additional command needed to specify that areas with a negative data value be excluded and that the class intervals be chosen so as to place an equal number of zones in each class is :
14 As far as possible , the extracts are ordered so as to follow the structure of the earlier chapters .
15 It should be noted that many of the rights outlined above are qualified so as to accommodate existing national practices .
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