Example sentences of "a [noun] so [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But in addition to the church 's calling to be the invisible yeast leavening the whole dough and the salt savouring the whole meal , it is also called to be a light placed prominently and strategically upon a lamp-stand so as to light the whole house . |
| 2 | In none of these cases could it be said that if a person entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer to another . |
| 3 | In none of those cases could it be said that , if one entered the premises and caused a computer to exercise a function so as to reveal information , there had been access via one computer into another . |
| 4 | Whilst the assumption that asset demands are set at such a level so as to minimize ( 4 ) yields models that are both tractable and consistent with observed empirical realities , the justification for quadratic costs in such models is always somewhat ad hoc . |
| 5 | The courts will , however , avoid constraining a statute so as to dispense with a hearing completely . |
| 6 | Neighbours always raised a child so as to exonerate parents from the need to reject their own offspring . |
| 7 | Led by Lord Pugh , the Fists would punch their way through into the city , the treacherous city which would reconfigure itself like a machine so as to funnel them unwittingly . |
| 8 | A statement may be made in writing , orally or even by contract , for example , by making the goods tell a lie about themselves as in the case where the seller patched up a crack in the barrel of a cannon so as to make it appear unfractured , Horsfall v. Thomas ( 1862 ) . |
| 9 | The House of Lords held that the board alone , and not a committee of the board , could grant special payments to a director so as to bind Guinness . |
| 10 | She can ( and should. ) marry a wife so as to perpetuate her deceased father 's lineage . |
| 11 | I lay with my limbs stretched out as stiff as though rigor mortis had set in , and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry . |
| 12 | And non-occupation by either spouse does not prevent an absentee wife from filing a notice so as to defeat her seller-husband , notwithstanding the fact that a court order would be required to entitle her to resume occupation of the matrimonial home ( Watts v Waller [ 1972 ] 3 All ER 257 ) . |
| 13 | Furthermore they concluded that farmers had used this political power to prevent new employment in order to keep farm wages lower , and to keep rural council house building rates at a minimum so as to keep farm workers tied to their cottages . |
| 14 | Senator Ricardo may enact such a bill so as to increase his chance of re-election , or he may oppose it because he favours public spending on ideological grounds . |
| 15 | Must we take a fund so as to avoid having our patients condemned to the lower tier of a two tier service ? |
| 16 | Perhaps if there really was ( and is ) ‘ widespread discontent … about the quality of education ’ , the best remedy would be to enhance teaching as a profession so as to attract and retain the best recruits , by paying them proper salaries and by promoting those who teach well , in such a way that they stay in the classroom instead of becoming administrators . |
| 17 | As soon as the baby is out of nappies , it is plonked into a mini-shellsuit so as to match its brothers , sisters , mother , father and grandparents . |
| 18 | Consider firstly the ordinary investor who wants shares in a trust so as to have a claim on a much wider portfolio of shares than he could afford by investing directly . |
| 19 | It is also a good idea when keeping cichlids together , or with larger fish , to decorate the aquarium in such a way so as to set out individual territories so each fish can establish its own personal niche |
| 20 | Deictic expressions , certainly in the first part of the poem , are often qualified in a way so as to present the reader with further information ; but that information often , too , comprises deictic elements or terms . |
| 21 | Although prima facie s343 TA 1988 will apply to a hive-down so as to preserve the transferor company 's carried-forward trading losses and capital allowances position , s343(4) can restrict the amount of the tax losses and allowances transferred , where the liabilities remaining with the transferor company exceed its remaining assets ( including the consideration for the hive-down of the trade ) . |
| 22 | Deeds of variations were orginally known as deeds of family arrangement because they were generally used to re-arrange assets within a family so as to cover circumstances not foreseen by the deceased when the will was made . |
| 23 | In the standard paradigm the two communicators are seated at a table opposite one another but separated by a screen so as to restrict communication to the verbal channel . |