Example sentences of "as [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By far the most prominent pattern is represented by the regular development of narrow-fronted strip buildings along the main frontages in such a way as to accommodate the maximum number of properties in the space available . |
| 2 | Only very rarely will the conditions be met so as to enable the new firm to act for one of the litigating clients let alone all of them . |
| 3 | Accordingly , the legislature has provided this extraordinary process so as to enable the requisite information to be obtained . |
| 4 | A 1 million b/d ‘ strategic ’ pipeline had been installed so as to enable the southern fields ' production to be sent out via the northern pipeline system through Syria , or the reverse ; as it later proved , a sensible precaution . |
| 5 | But Mr. Lester raises a more fundamental argument , with which I agree , that the effect of this court declaring the law in such a way as to enable the local authority to sue in libel , would be interference by a judicial authority with the right of freedom of expression of the press . |
| 6 | This period has seen capitalism shake out labour in such a way as to decimate the working class , now much smaller , living in decaying urban areas , with little chance of upward mobility , and yet create the conditions for a relatively secure middle class . |
| 7 | So as well as enjoying the renowned quality and attention to detail of our service in the air , you can look forward to the chance of enjoying Jaguar quality on the ground . |
| 8 | There will be similar trouble over the gender difference if indeed as I am suggesting — it is true that ideas about the meaning of maleness have distorted moral thinking in our culture quite deeply , so as to affect the whole concept of individuality , and thereby condition the way in which some central metaphysical issues are seen . |
| 9 | I think there 's a lot of the co , er , the smaller companies feel that way , but the bigger companies have tried the smaller ones , and I think we , we 're not likely to lose the bigger ones as easy as lose the small ones . |
| 10 | It was described as being ‘ … as black as a luger barrel ’ ; as being able to bring ‘ … polite conversation round to the subject of violence and warfare ’ ; as accusing the Georgian terraces of Bath ( where it was exhibited ) of daydreaming , and of making reference to the military hardware stored in the ancient subterranean quarries beneath the city . |
| 11 | This project will also attempt to establish just how information from the two modalities converge by systematically manipulating them in such a way as to disrupt the normal manner of combining them . |
| 12 | The RIBA had produced a standard form of building contract which was widely used and regarded as reflecting the various roles involved . |
| 13 | The timing of the proposals is seen by some observers as reflecting the growing strength of the French Green Party in the run-up to regional elections in March . |
| 14 | Given that the bank 's desired cash ratio is 10 per cent and that the bank wishes to maximise its profits , it will increase its total deposits to £30,000 so as to restore the desired ratio . |
| 15 | They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) . |
| 16 | The noted Maori boys college was not so much a rugby school as a school of rugby , fielding 13 rugby teams , one football side and one hockey team from its 350 pupils , as well as producing the best school XV in the country . |
| 17 | As well as accepting the Dutch theologian 's views on salvation , these English Arminians , or Laudians , exhibited a number of other conservative theological and liturgical positions , which were not to be found in continental Arminianism . |
| 18 | Since Article 36 ( 2 ) rests upon reciprocity it would have been open for the Court to find that there was no reciprocity between Nicaragua and a State that had protested against its listing as accepting the compulsory jurisdiction of the Court . |
| 19 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |
| 20 | Because they are designed to justify certain propositions , the questions they ask are formulated in such a way as to prompt the desired answers . |
| 21 | There is an example of this in ‘ Fighting talk ’ where the police are recorded as using the white boys ' own rules of territoriality as a device to keep them apart from blacks ( ‘ if you 're on your own territory we 'll nick the others , but if you 're outside , we 'll nick you' ) . |
| 22 | As well as using the linguistic concepts of sign and system to analyze structures at various levels of a text , the structuralists returned to Saussure 's distinction between langue and parole in order to outline a whole new approach to literature . |
| 23 | Reading this group of sonnets is to be reminded of the noble conclusion to the first book of Bacon 's Advancement of Learning : In describing his Friend as my love or He the Poet could be seen as using the third-person form in order to place him apart , perhaps to place him outside the sphere of time 's influence . |
| 24 | A loose Positivism , in the broad spirit of Comte 's Positive sociology and embracing all who thought of themselves as bringing the scientific revolution to the study of the social world , had been newly refined by the Logical Positivists . |
| 25 | ERM critics regard each upset as bringing the eventual collapse of the system closer . |
| 26 | Regular physical activity or exercise is just as important as eating the right type of food . |
| 27 | The Committee for Hereford Amateur Rafters is the organization that was formed following the first 100 mile race and , as such , is the backbone of UK rafting , acting as an administrative body providing information , advice and assistance to new teams as well as organizing the premier UK events . |
| 28 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 29 | Perhaps more fundamentally , we take as given the basic framework of political institutions . |
| 30 | You can be truly successful this year , especially if you have learned to diversify at the same time as pursuing the well-beaten track to your objectives . |