Example sentences of "as [to-vb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As you rightly say , the present border was drawn on a sectarian head count in such a way as to include a large area which has never consented to partition . |
| 2 | persuading a supplier 's lorry driver not to deliver so as to disrupt a commercial contract ) is protected if the attendance is lawful under the 1974 Act , but there is no protection for ‘ secondary picketing , ’ i. e . |
| 3 | It would be perfectly possible to recast the system of democratic supervision so as to restore a considerable part of the power of the Commons and to provide a devolved system of regional and local elected councils , which would mean that every important administrative body was subject to checks and examination at one or other of the three levels — national , regional or local . |
| 4 | In short , it is that it offers a way of by-passing ‘ the awkward corner ’ , Nearly twenty years ago Professor Joan Robinson observed that the predictable consequences of the attainment of near-full employment must , if institutions and attitudes did not accommodate themselves to the new circumstances , be so far to strengthen the power of the trade unions as to prompt a vicious spiral of wages and prices ; and that it would become chronic . |
| 5 | The central party leadership , in fact , went so far as to issue a formal statement on the Baltic situation in late August 1989 , warning against the activities of ‘ extremist ’ and ‘ anti-socialist ’ forces that were pursuing a separatist line with ‘ growing persistence and aggressiveness ’ . |
| 6 | In the summer of 1101 , faced with Robert 's landing in England and the immediate prospect of widespread desertion , Henry went so far as to promise a general obedience to the papal decrees , and it seems likely that Anselm 's activity on his behalf , secured by this promise , turned the tide in his favour , and brought Duke Robert 's invasion to a halt . |
| 7 | This should be sufficient to put a purchaser on notice so that he insists on paying the purchase monies to two trustees or a trust corporation so as to obtain a good receipt ( Law of Property Act 1925 , s27 ) . |
| 8 | As has been said , a decision was made to abandon high-order averaging by the instrument so as to obtain a full record of the variations in measurement . |
| 9 | Given basic ability , equality of opportunity to borrow at the market rate of interest to invest in your human capital so as to secure a future return makes observed income inequality a matter of individual choice . |
| 10 | Mr. Leapor has put down a Grave-Stone in Memory of his Daughter ; and I should be glad if any of the ingenious Gentlemen you mention would be so good as to write a few Lines to be put upon it |
| 11 | That , however , was only half his story : in the course of his career he held so many ecclesiastical offices as to provoke a constant outcry prebends in Hereford and London , the chancellorship at Exeter , the archdeaconry of Worcester , and in the course of 1294 no fewer than fourteen churches ! |
| 12 | However forward-thinking the penologists , criminologists and bureaucrats in government departments may be , their views should not be allowed to prevail so as to impose a sentencing regime which is incomprehensible or unacceptable to right-thinking people generally . |
| 13 | But a question to be answered and the one addressed in this chapter is — can we map the innovation process in such a way as to provide a better understanding about how it might be more effectively managed ? |
| 14 | The project is to adapt and revise the existing Cambridge Multisectoral Dynamic Model ( MDM ) so as to provide a quantitative assessment of the costs and benefits for the UK in policies in GG abatement . |
| 15 | Practice and research are intertwined ; good doctors have an obligation to inquire as well as to provide a clinical service , and codes of conduct and ethical guidelines that recommend different rules for practice and research create an undesirable dichotomy that itself has ethical implications . |
| 16 | This chapter explores the possibility of defining these assembly relationships in such ways as to provide a desired function . |
| 17 | They are held with their common axis vertical , so as to provide a liquid-level gauge . |
| 18 | ‘ The only direction the Government gives is that BR should operate their passenger railway system so as to provide a public service which is comparable generally with that operated at April 1 1988 , ’ he wrote . |
| 19 | These were also modified by linker addition so as to contain a BamHI recognition sequence . |
| 20 | On the day he left , Gould wrote to Captain Washington at the Royal Geographical Society , announcing proudly , ‘ I shall have many novelties to add to science as well as to communicate a great deal respecting their habits since I have already obtained the nests and eggs of 60 species not one of which as far as I am aware have been described . ’ |
| 21 | But a context normally also acts in such a way as to cause a single sense , from among those associated with any ambiguous word form , to become operative . |
| 22 | But at that time the plaintiff had no actual existence ; was not a human being ; and was not a passenger — in fact , as Lord Coke says , the plaintiff was then pars viscerum matris , and we have not been referred to any authority or principle to show that a legal duty has ever been held to arise towards that which is not in esse in fact and has only a fictitious existence in law , so as to render a negligent act a breach of that duty . |
| 23 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 24 | In the 1960s Kenyatta manipulated sales of formerly white-owned land and businesses in such a way as to create a new class of Kenyan capitalists to replace the old white capitalists , in a no-nonsense determination to both preserve the private sector and to transfer its ownership into African hands . |
| 25 | Mr George Gardiner ( C. Reigate ) asked how was Mr Hurd going to explain to ethnic minorities already in this country the strict entry controls on their relatives ‘ while at the same time amending the law so as to create a preferential class of treatment for the Hong Kong Chinese ’ ? |
| 26 | The British War Cabinet even went so far as to create a special committee to guide Swinton during the talks . |
| 27 | ‘ if it is demonstrated by reference to authority binding on this court , or by reference to clearly established principles of the common law , that the appellants were rightly held to have committed the actus reus of contempt of court , this court can not apply directly the terms of the Convention so as to reach a different conclusion . |
| 28 | Emperor Hirohito must be supported and the forces of moderate conservatism strengthened within Japan so as to resist a future challenge either from the left or from a regalvanised extreme right wing . |
| 29 | It may be argued , therefore , that the loss of exchange rate changes as a policy instrument does not involve a cost sufficiently significant as to constitute a convincing argument against the creation of the European currency union . |
| 30 | By this we mean a change which is so wide-reaching and so fundamental in its effects as to constitute a dramatic alteration of the status quo . |