Example sentences of "of [noun] so [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Acrow Ltd. obtained an injunction to restrain an American company , S.I. , from acting in breach of contract so as to impede Acrow 's manufacture of machinery under licence from S.I.S.I. purported to ignore the injunction and instructed Rex Chainbelt , suppliers of components for Acrow 's process , to cease supply . |
| 2 | The Court did not however think that it fell so far below what might properly be imposed by way of sentence so as to justify the Court in interfering so as to increase the sentence . |
| 3 | The universal element here is that human beings use their resources of language and technology to simplify the world of experience so as to bring it under control . |
| 4 | Panel surveys involve repeated observations of subjects so as to build up a longitudinal record of the events of interest . |
| 5 | ‘ Real ’ Christianity , in Clarkson 's words , depended upon ‘ a total change of heart or of mind so as to produce a corresponding change of Life ’ . |
| 6 | One practical goal must be to marry these two styles of computation so as to gain the best of both . |
| 7 | Groups such as Families Against Intimidation and Terror , the Newry hostage support group , Enough is Enough , the Peace Train Movement and New Consensus in Northern Ireland are standing up against the people of violence so as to ensure that there is another approach and a different tactic . |
| 8 | My hon. Friend is correct — it must make sense to have pay bargaining as near as possible to the point and location of work so as to make the labour market work as efficiently as possible and to reward people as fairly as possible . |
| 9 | He thought doggedly of Carol so as to blot out the image of Helen 's sad face that seemed to have become imprinted on his mind . |
| 10 | In a number of provisions the 1977 Protocols seek to restate the principles of the laws of war so as to make as clear as possible the unacceptability of ‘ total war ’ . |
| 11 | Alternatively , they may be given as a mark of generosity so as to increase the cohesive forces in society , known as levelling mechanisms . |
| 12 | THE £11BILLION a year Lloyd 's of London insurance market is abandoning rules forcing underwriters to specialise in particular types of business so as to compete more effectively in Europe and against the big insurance companies . |
| 13 | THE £11BILLION a year Lloyd 's of London insurance market is abandoning rules forcing underwriters to specialise in particular types of business so as to compete more effectively in Europe and against the big insurance companies . |
| 14 | Africanus is following the principle of interpreting so as to favour the validity of the dispositions in the will . |
| 15 | The practice is for the second copy of the Request to be retained in the files of the Central Authority as a record of its action in the matter , and for the second copy of the document itself to be returned with the completed Certificate of service so as to eliminate any doubt as to which document is covered by the Certificate . |
| 16 | Whilst this at least saves National Insurance contributions the incentive must be to take out salary at least to a level of £71,400 so as to get the maximum allowance base for pension contributions . |
| 17 | An application by the council to amend its statement of claim so as to plead special damage was refused by French J. on 31 July 1991 . |
| 18 | American industrialists , critical of the performance of the occupation , had urged a reversal of policy so as to increase Japan 's capacity to stand on her own feet and not to receive excessive subsidies from the United States . |
| 19 | Whenever the courts draw a line to mark out the bounds of duty they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the responsibility of the defendant . |
| 20 | Whenever the courts set bounds to the damages recoverable — saying that they are , or are not , too remote they do it as a matter of policy so as to limit the liability of the defendant . |
| 21 | What we have in ( 5 ) might be improved in a number of ways so as to deal with questions and indeed objections , and thereby complicated and indeed greatly complicated . |
| 22 | In addition Drury persuaded one witness to amend his evidence so as to incriminate Cooper , arranged for another to be shown a photograph of McMahon so as to pick him out in an identification parade , omitted to tell the defence of two witnesses crucial to their case , cited another as prosecution witness to prevent the defence from calling him , and bribed two prisoners in Leicester Prison , where McMahon was on remand , to say that McMahon had admitted to them his part in the crime . |
| 23 | ( iv ) Teachers should discuss a variety of works so as to bring out the range and effects of different types of sound patterning , eg alliteration , assonance , rhymes , onomatopoeia , and of figures of speech , eg similes , metaphors , personifications . |
| 24 | Firstly I do n't think there 's a substantial disagreement between Yeltsin and the so called hard liners , except over the question of timing so as to win the market and someone 's introduced them to the Soviet Union , and secondly I do n't think you can treat Boris Yeltsin as some kind of democrat at all , on August the twelfth he threatened to rule Russia by decree just at the definitely senators and the Russian nationalism and he built some sort of support and I , I think it 's very wrong to characterise the events there with the revolution , more it 's been , it 's been much more of a power struggle between different sections of the you know , the elite there along the lines of the events in Romania . |
| 25 | On the other hand , many fringe bodies are located on the fringe exactly in order to distance them from the core of government so as to give them a degree of independence from public control . |
| 26 | Held , dismissing the appeal ( Lord Keith of Kinkel and Lord Jauncey of Tullichettle dissenting ) , that although the common law had previously only admitted recovery of money exacted under an unlawful demand by a public authority where the payment had been made under a mistake of fact or under limited categories of compulsion , which did not apply to the payments by the building society , the nature of a demand for tax or similar impost on the citizen by the state , with the perceived economic and social consequences of non-payment stemming from the inequality of the parties ' respective positions , and the unjust enrichment falling on the state where the citizen paid an unlawful demand to avoid those consequences , warranted a reformulation of the law of restitution so as to recognise a prima facie right of recovery based solely on payment of money pursuant to an ultra vires demand by a public authority ; and that , accordingly , since the building society 's claim fell outside the statutory framework governing repayment of overpaid tax , it was entitled at common law to repayment of the sums from the dates of payments and to interest in respect thereof pursuant to section 35A of the Supreme Court Act 1981 ( post , pp. 384H , 387D , F–G , 389B , 390F — 391C , E–F , 392E , 396C , 414B–C , F–G , 415E–F , 416A–B , 417B , 418A–C , E–F , 421D–F , G ) . |
| 27 | An accurate account would have to have regard to all those instances where a remedy has been accorded by a state party simply to forestall a successful application and to those cases , also , where breach had been avoided in the first place by reason of adjustment of procedures so as to ensure compliance with the Convention . |
| 28 | The argument here is that the buyer can rely on the seller 's breach as a waiver of performance so as to justify refusal to accept delivery . |
| 29 | Now you 've never had a a contract of employment so that goes in favour as well . |
| 30 | A common example of this form of the tort , though now much restricted by the legislation governing trade disputes , has been the situation where X is B 's servant , whom A induces to act in breach of his contract of employment so as to prevent B fulfilling his contract . |