Example sentences of "as [to-vb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hypothesis is that there is a space for a socialist argument in favour of investment planning ; that such an argument could be presented in such a way as to appeal to organised labour and even to broader strata of the population concerned about employment prospects and their standard of living in retirement ; that if organised workers were to support the proposal they could use their union organisation to press for social accountability of their savings funds ; and that if the proposals were not linked to a ‘ dogmatic ’ pursuit of nationalisation they would stand a chance of recruiting some support from the more progressive elements of the state and corporate salariat — those whose technical expertise would be required in any such project , even if it is overlaid with oppressive ‘ professional ’ and ‘ managerial ’ ideologies — helping to isolate , so far as possible , reactionary financier elements . |
| 2 | One of Charles 's most fruitful contributions to knowledge of the wider world was his establishment in 1675 of Greenwich Observatory , which was intended quite as much to assist sailors with the problems of navigation as to carry on scientific research . |
| 3 | Reform of the United Nations so as to work towards greater representativeness , accountability and independence . |
| 4 | Where there is only one in-situ anchor , or else you are making your own anchor points , the first person down should have back-up protection , clipped independently into the abseil ropes , and adjusted so as to come into immediate effect if the main anchor fails , but without directly supporting it . |
| 5 | Yet so striking was the colour of the child 's hair and of that which showed beneath the flat straw hat of the woman as to appear like distorted jogging lights in the dimness . |
| 6 | How can anyone be so arrogant as to talk about this Creature , this Thing , as if they knew It , as if they had just had a letter from It or had chatted to It over the phone , when the It can not be conceived , understood , described , or even proved to exist . |
| 7 | The key is not so much to end up with the right plan as to engage in strategic thinking . |
| 8 | Gleizes and Metzinger , carried away by their enthusiasm for his art , went so far as to suggest at one point in Du Cubisme that Cubism was simply a development of his work : ‘ To understand Cézanne is to foresee Cubism . |
| 9 | Our project was designed deliberately to follow the pattern of ethnographic studies of routine policing , so as to add to this tradition the dimension provided by studying this kind of policing in a divided society . |
| 10 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 11 | The woman whom he paid for her favours so as to learn of that enchantment that could fuddle men and women ? |
| 12 | ‘ Having made such a botch-up on coal , it is amazing that the Government have been so bloody-minded as to push on full steam ahead without prior consultation with the industry and regardless of a potentially devastating impact on jobs . ’ |
| 13 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 14 | The research re-defines the concept of clean technology in such a way as to distinguish between end-of-pipe recycling technologies and those which offer a more integrated approach to pollution abatement . |