Example sentences of "so as [to-vb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The constructed index is transformed so as to move from 0 in 1970 Q4 to a peak of unity assumed to be reached in 1989 Q4 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ … the main idea is that social phenomena are seen as existing in relation to each other , and continually developing in and through such relations so as to form at various phases contradictory forces that generate qualitatively new formations . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | However , not all plants do this and a number of trees which normally produce straight , stress-carrying boughs can be grafted so as to behave like weeping willows . |
| 6 | There is emphasis on the end purpose or objective with relatively less attention to the means , partly so as to allow for individual differences and partly because the evidence accumulating in particular cases may change the direction of progress . |
| 7 | Curves predicting the numbers of damaged lymphocytes were constructed so as to allow for three possibilities : CD45RA cells die , CD45R0 cells die and CD45R0 cells change into CD45RA cells . |
| 8 | Our project was designed deliberately to follow the pattern of ethnographic studies of routine policing , so as to add to this tradition the dimension provided by studying this kind of policing in a divided society . |
| 9 | The Act is drafted so as to apply to any foreign State , a practice followed in the criminal context by the Criminal Justice ( International Co-operation ) Act 1990 . |
| 10 | Educationists must modify or supplement teacher training courses so as to cater for those who will work in rural schools . |
| 11 | The mingled exasperation and admiration that Pound felt for Binyon are nowhere so explicit and appealing as in what he wrote for Blast ( July , 1915 ) , so as to introduce into that inappropriately vociferous context nine quotations from the demure prose of Binyon 's The Flight of the Dragon . |
| 12 | Then both the earners and the users of foreign exchange will know its real opportunity cost , and they will adjust their behaviour so as to economize on foreign exchange in the short term and to earn more of it in the long term . |
| 13 | What , then , were seen as the essential elements of the British party model , and how do these elements add up so as to make for responsible party government and the popular control of public policy ? |
| 14 | The woman whom he paid for her favours so as to learn of that enchantment that could fuddle men and women ? |
| 15 | Where there is only one in-situ anchor , or else you are making your own anchor points , the first person down should have back-up protection , clipped independently into the abseil ropes , and adjusted so as to come into immediate effect if the main anchor fails , but without directly supporting it . |
| 16 | Reform of the United Nations so as to work towards greater representativeness , accountability and independence . |
| 17 | They certainly choose their abuse so as to indicate to those who do toe the line that they have lost it . |