Example sentences of "so as [to-vb] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we say that such-and-such a group of words are the " subject " or that some other group of words are the " predicate " in a copular verb phrase , we are , by such observations , recognizing the speaker 's intention to construct expressions which will identify certain properties and entities , and to assign some of the former to one of the latter , so as to let an audience know what entities are under attention and which properties are claimed to hold for which entities ; we take this to be the essence of what goes on in the use and understanding of linguistic expression ( whatever the purpose to which individual acts of communication are directed ) . |
| 2 | This will not be easy , and , where the seller has solved the problem of infringement by obtaining a licence , or redesigning the goods so as to put an end to the infringement , there may not be any other damage suffered in any event . |
| 3 | The Royal National Pension Fund for Nurses ( 1887 ) is an early example of the personal ‘ portable ’ pension , which entailed taking out an insurance policy so as to purchase an annuity on retirement . |
| 4 | However , if the non-arts staff in LEAs and colleges who did wish to offer a higher priority to arts education were to find the climate of opinion changed so as to create an environment more conducive to the arts , it is difficult to imagine how the current state of thinking amongst arts staff might contribute to an improvement in arts education practices . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeal and substituting a period of postponement not to exceed six months ( Sir George Waller dissenting ) , that for the purposes of making an order for sale in favour of a trustee in bankruptcy under s. 30 of the Law of Property Act 1925 no distinction was to be made between a case where a property was being enjoyed as the matrimonial home and one where it had ceased to be so used ; that where a spouse , having a beneficial interest in such property , had become bankrupt , the interests of the creditors would usually prevail over the interests of the other spouse and a sale of the property ordered within a short period ; that only in exceptional circumstances , more than the ordinary consequences of debt and improvidence , could the interests of the other spouse prevail so as to enable an order for sale to be postponed for a substantial period ; and that , accordingly , since the circumstances of the wives and their children , albeit distressing , were not exceptional , the order sought by the trustee should be made . |
| 6 | Because like many of his near contemporaries , such , for instance , as Henry James and Virginia Woolf certainly , Proust was concerned to expand certain small but emotionally important blocks of time , to expand them so as to convey an experience fully and in detail , as one would experience it living through it . |
| 7 | In the case of the sentence above , the completing word was " cat " , but on other trials a poor completion such as " chair " was presented , so as to obtain an estimate of the effectiveness of the preceding context . |
| 8 | Again , to counter the allegation by the LCD of excessive claims QC put forward a proposal that Paragraph 9 of the Regulations should be altered , so as to place an obligation on the Court to report to the Bar Council any case where fees are reduced by more than 50 per cent . |
| 9 | As soon as school was finished we used to rush back to her house and start on our homework immediately , so as to have an hour or so for the passeggiata before going back for supper and finishing off . |
| 10 | Loans to small farmers have been increased 25 times over ; research and investment has gone into new seeds and fertilizers specially designed for the needs ( and the purses ) of the small farmer ; and maize prices have gone up by 129 per cent so as to provide an incentive . |
| 11 | Some of the owl species are covered by more than one pellet collection so as to provide an estimate of within species variation , but in some cases the sample is restricted to single pellet collections . |
| 12 | Such a surface therefore consists of a large number of tubes emerging at a fine angle so as to present an array of slanting holes . |