Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Can I encourage the Minister to do the double by restoring the funding so as to enable much-needed house building and repairs to go ahead , and at the same time give the necessary financial boost to the devastated building and construction industry ? |
| 2 | There is little doubt that Hamer have achieved what they set out to do as far as producing great vintage guitar tones from contemporary instruments . |
| 3 | The NII says its staff ‘ do not see the laundry as representing significant safety problems ’ . |
| 4 | Although counting of applications continues , the issue is 1.75 times oversubscribed so far , forcing financial advisers last night to ‘ claw back ’ shares promised to overseas institutions so as to meet small investor demand . |
| 5 | Although counting of applications continues , the issue is 1.75 times oversubscribed so far , forcing financial advisers last night to ‘ claw back ’ shares promised to overseas institutions so as to meet small investor demand . |
| 6 | He even went so far as to demand universal manhood suffrage and annually-elected parliaments . |
| 7 | As well as keeping some nail polish remover at home , make sure you carry some handy remover in case of emergencies . |
| 8 | We plan to install one of the ‘ Amstrad ’ draft printers so as to provide some draft printing capability as soon as possible , and to consider further the possibility of replacing the heavily-used Epson printer next financial year . |
| 9 | It can then be located so as to provide convenient armchair control . |
| 10 | However , if each enterprise is a different company , each company being in itself a separate and distinct legal entity and thus taxed separately , the balancing of profit and loss between the enterprises so as to minimize overall tax liability can not be achieved . |
| 11 | This will help prevent the spread of infection in local Tanzanian villages as well as provide basic community care . |
| 12 | He had been playing alone on the towpath , if anything as purposeless as hurling old beer cans into the canal could be described as playing , and she had paused to say good morning to him . |
| 13 | The Brazilian Society of Community and General Doctors is seeking to address this situation and could act as a catalyst , advocate , and pressure group , as well as promoting good quality training , just as the Royal College of General Practitioners has done in this country . |
| 14 | The first has already been dealt with in Chapter 6 when we discussed Friedman 's rehabilitation of Pigou 's theory of labour market adjustment : in a competitive market economy , relative prices will respond in such a way as to eliminate any chance discrepancy between the demands for and supplies of goods and factors of production . |
| 15 | Information must be focused so as to serve precise management tasks . |
| 16 | Therefore there is a logical tendency to preclude from view the social reasons why people are using the land in such a way as to cause excessive soil erosion , and so most conservation policies do not address them at all . |
| 17 | However , they have consistently opted to eke out a living by temporary migration and wage labour rather than leaving in such numbers so as to exceed natural population growth , and thereby ease the pressure . |
| 18 | ‘ Functional ’ because such institutions have to be seen as serving certain value objectives , in this case primarily the avoidance of war and mutual destruction . |
| 19 | Eric Priest has taken over as acting Chief Fire Officer for Cleveland after the retirement of Bill Cooney on health grounds . |
| 20 | Universities can now apply for funds to found postgraduate departments as well as to create academic research institutes linking universities with the industrial and business world . |
| 21 | Faragher ( 1985 ) found that police in Great Britain downgraded the seriousness of violence against women in the home , for although formal regulations state that it is to be treated as an arrestable offence , policemen often redefined the incident as lying outside law enforcement ( emphasized by Policy Studies Institute 1983b : 64 ) . |
| 22 | Option 4 involves taking the power supply as a spur from a power circuit instead of from a lighting circuit , in the same way as adding extra socket outlets to the circuit . |
| 23 | He introduced VAT on domestic fuel and power bills as well as hiking National Insurance contributions by one per cent to avoid estimated Government borrowings of £50 million next year . |
| 24 | The banks lend these to developing countries who want money for modernizing their countries as well as paying increased fuel costs . |
| 25 | Downpipes should be clean and placed at frequent intervals so as to avoid long gutter runs and changes of direction . |
| 26 | This involved a massive commitment of future financial resources , as well as deciding British defence policy for the rest of the century . |
| 27 | Some farmers even go so far as to grow continuous cereal crops indefinitely — barley on the lighter land and winter wheat on the strong clays . |
| 28 | Of the extant ‘ megafauna ’ , the smallest of the five living species of rhinoceros , the Sumatran rhinoceros , Dicerorhinus sumatrensis , eats wild mangoes and other fruits as well as browsing many gap species . |
| 29 | If efficiency forms a part of development , then a country will be able to spend less on fuel and power , as well as releasing fewer greenhouse gases . |
| 30 | Governments anxious to reduce socio-economic differences in mortality rates among children have therefore to tackle the problems of housing and urban decay , as well as providing better health services to such families . |