Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv] [subord] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue . |
| 2 | Purchase behaviour will , again , be altered so as to come into line with the customary behaviour of the reference group . |
| 3 | Congress alone has the power to decide whether the present laws can or can not be amended so as to carry out more effectively the objects of law . |
| 4 | The paragraph should , in my judgment , be amended so as to make clear that what is being sought is an order for steps to be taken restoring all the parties to the respective transactions to their former position . |
| 5 | The management of investment needs to be optimised so as to deliver a fully commercial return . |
| 6 | After all , how else can alignments of physical objects be calculated so as to lie along propitious meridians , save by reference to more fixed and less mutable properties of the earth ? |
| 7 | " A money award can be calculated so as to make good a financial loss " : per Lord Morris in West v Shephard [ 1964 ] AC at p345 . |
| 8 | Making noise Speaking to be heard rather than to contribute ; often very fuzzy , undisciplined . |
| 9 | Testing will be revised so as to add less to teachers ' workloads . |
| 10 | A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control . |
| 11 | The mode of operation can be adjusted so as to produce a high content of aromatic ( benzene-like ) molecules which give the product its characteristically high octane number . |
| 12 | 4.4 The Company will place purchase orders with the Supplier for quantities of the Products as and when required , and the Supplier shall accept the same , provided that all such orders will be placed so as to allow to the Supplier at least 90 days for delivery . |
| 13 | The letters should be sufficiently large and should be placed so as to cater for patients with poor vision . |
| 14 | While some workers believe that the best place for a child is within a family , and that it is better for a child to be placed transracially than to have no family , anxiety is increasing about the outcome of transracial placements . |
| 15 | Resistance does not operate outside power , nor is it necessarily produced oppositionally : it is imbricated within it , the irregular term that consistently disturbs it , rebounds upon it , and which on occasions can be manipulated so as to rupture it altogether : |
| 16 | Staff become an asset in which to invest , to be developed so as to help the organisation achieve its aims and objectives . |
| 17 | Very simply , the theory behind this is that any product has some characteristic which can be developed so as to make it unique in its class . |
| 18 | There was nothing to suggest that that power to sue should be limited so as to exclude the proceedings before the court , save by the nature of the trade union itself , and that did not exclude a claim in respect of a libel ‘ calculated to arouse doubts and suspicions in the minds of members [ of the union itself ] , and so to destroy the cohesion and will to act of the union : ’ per Scott L.J . |
| 19 | Lawrence J stated at p601 , " I am unable to see how the word " indirectly " " can be limited so as to exclude the settlements which are made through the inter-position of a company . " |
| 20 | The data in Table 7 can be rearranged so as to rank universities in order of the proportion of Scottish theses to theses as a whole , and develop what might be called a ‘ Parochiality Index ’ . |
| 21 | Hence it would be necessary to draft a new housing repair code in terms specific enough to be clearly understandable … but also containing a wide enough range of topics to be considered so as to ensure that the law is sufficiently flexible to cover the greatest number of housing repair problems … |
| 22 | It can then be located so as to provide convenient armchair control . |
| 23 | Firstly , the 1971 and 1976 directives need to be modified so as to deal with certain procedural weaknesses and to close the loopholes which member states have exploited . |
| 24 | The words used will be interpreted according to the so-called " golden rule " : they will be given their ordinary grammatical and literal meaning unless that produces absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy , when the literal meaning can be modified so as to avoid that absurdity , inconsistency or repugnancy . |
| 25 | Organizations are seen as rational instruments for realizing explicit goals , with different parts that can be modified so as to increase efficiency ( Gouldner 1959 ) . |
| 26 | New books and dictionaries are expected to contain the new spellings , while Proust , Racine and the rest will gradually be re-edited so as to make them conform . |
| 27 | Some art criticism in a catalogue may be included so as to document the history of taste . |
| 28 | A modern settlement , which will usually be of personalty or of mixed fund of land and personalty , will be designed so as to attract the lowest possible tax liability . |
| 29 | The project will investigate formally the gains that result from coordinated policies on CO2 emissions , as against unilateral policies , and suggest how international agreements on CO2 emissions may be designed so as to ensure they are sustainable . |
| 30 | Lessons must be designed so as to prevent the learner making mistakes . |