Example sentences of "so as [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |
| 2 | In preparing my statement so as to include another recent event , I was following the behaviour of my predecessors , who have done the same on such occasions . |
| 3 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 4 | The Directors of Waterford Wedgwood UK plc are committed to managing the Group 's operations so as to minimise any adverse environmental impact . |
| 5 | In order to investigate the operation of such constraints , we will first look at some theoretical models which cast light on the various problems involved in the government-management " game " , before turning to the next section to consider some features of the control structure in the UK , so as to see some practical illustrations of the points . |
| 6 | The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice . |
| 7 | This was followed in 1988 by a reform of the Community Budget in which steps were taken to shift expenditure from agricultural to the structural funds , that is those concerned with regional and social matters , and the expenditure rules were recast so as to concentrate such structural spending on the poorest regions . |
| 8 | There remains , however , a question of principle which has not been fully considered : should the fault element in offences against the person be widened so as to criminalize some negligent causing of physical harm ? |
| 9 | By the autumn of 1837 , he had developed this analogy so as to understand all long-run trends in diversification and progress through an arboriform extrapolation , on a changing but stable Lyellian earth 's surface , of successive species propagations ; these being analogous to the successive bud propagations whereby any tree grows , with many buds ending without branching , in species extinctions , while other buds branch without ending , in species multiplications . |
| 10 | If the pin is extended so as to enter another spatial domain yet another unwanted association would be detected and flagged to the designer . |
| 11 | Sir [ James ] Fitzjames Stephen ( afterwards Stephen J. ) , in [ A General View of the Criminal Law of England ( 1863 ) , p. 129 ] , suggested as a definition of theft : ‘ To steal is unlawfully , and with intent to defraud , by taking , by embezzlement , by obtaining by false pretences , or in any other manner whatever to appropriate to the use of any person any property whatever real or personal in possession or in action , so as to deprive any other person of the advantage of any beneficial interest at law or in equity , which he may have therein . ’ |
| 12 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 13 | Question 15 Should the hardship test be applied to all claims on the compensation fund so as to exclude all institutional and most corporate applicants ? |
| 14 | In a radically different approach to filter design , a filter is synthesised so as to provide some preconceived functional form of frequency response that exhibits certain desirable features . |
| 15 | He would haunt him , so as to complete some aberrant equation within his own brain which allowed Brother Yeremi to pursue his exalted , disingenuous ideal . |
| 16 | I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable . |
| 17 | So as to avoid any political consideration of policies , the auditor 's brief is to monitor and report upon agencies ' and departments ' approaches for monitoring and reviewing their own effectiveness . |
| 18 | He was then to return home at once via Montreal , using his Thomas Leavy identity on re-entering the United States so as to avoid any tell-tale entry stamp in his passport . |