Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] so [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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1 | All the advice we have read assumes that the wife will claim a refund of tax on her low income , rather than share a husband 's income so as to take full advantage of allowances . |
2 | In this case that certainly was not so ; the ordinary means of access to the house was from the front of the house and to my mind it is very doubtful whether this yard could be regarded as a means of access to the house at all … in my view the section can not be extended beyond what was held in Brown 's case so as to include a yard of this kind . |
3 | It consists primarily of : concentrating the construction of turbo-alternators in the new Alsthom-Atlantique group , with a production capacity of about 10000 MW per year ; concentrating all industrial resources for the fabrication of the boilers in Framatome , with a production capacity of eight units a year ; the CEA has also bought out Westinghouse 's share in Framatome 's equity so as to have complete control of the further development of the technology , the licence for which expired in 1982 . |
4 | It is possible to dissect open the animal 's body so as to expose the abdominal ganglion and its cells , or even to completely isolate the ganglion and the nerves connecting it to pieces of attached skin and gill . |
5 | Although section 25 , as re-enacted , no longer required the court to attempt to place the parties in the financial position they would have been in had the marriage not broken down , it did not , in her Ladyship 's judgment , circumscribe the court 's discretion so as to limit it to providing for the wife to become self-sufficient . |
6 | A company of porcupines crowded themselves together one cold winter 's day so as to profit from one another 's warmth and so save themselves from being frozen to death . |
7 | This required taking such steps as arranging the candidate 's schedule so as to ensure that he arrived at campaign stops in time for coverage on the nightly news . |
8 | The state may thus mould the company 's constitution so as to protect the interests of parties directly involved , for instance the interests of shareholders against abuse of position by management , but it also has a much broader right of intervention , allowing it , if appropriate , to redefine corporate objectives to secure compliance with favoured social goals . |
9 | The sonnet which apparently seeks to contain the truth of the youth 's beauty so as to gain power and control over it , exposes that it destroys and banishes the youth 's beauty . |
10 | The purpose of the judicial review was to dispose of the district judge 's order so as to permit the substitution by the reviewing court of a different order , still directed to the way in which the matter should proceed . |