Example sentences of "so as [to-vb] they " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I 've always made a point of borrowing money from women early in the relationship so as to give them a hold over me . |
| 2 | On the other hand , many fringe bodies are located on the fringe exactly in order to distance them from the core of government so as to give them a degree of independence from public control . |
| 3 | It insisted on calling a separate meeting for the kolkhoz women , so as to persuade them of their independence from their menfolk . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | that some concessions regarding ( a ) should be afforded to small companies so as to relieve them of burdens and expense that they might find intolerable . |
| 6 | The successes of history belong to those who are capable of seizing these rules , to replace those who had used them , to disguise themselves so as to pervert them , invert their meaning , and redirect them against those who had initially imposed them … so as to overcome the rulers through their own rules . |
| 7 | Since the 1950s laboratory and field research has also focused on the genetic manipulation of insects ( genetic control ) so as to render them sterile , partially sterile , more susceptible to conventional methods of control , or harmless to man . |
| 8 | For her own part , Theodora could n't really see Amy , small and frail as she was , physically assaulting anyone , not so as to kill them . |
| 9 | A complicating factor , so often seen in evolution , involves the ‘ cheats ’ , for there are many species with non-nutritious seed appendages but coloured so as to mimic them , e.g. species of Ormosia and Rhynchosia ( Leguminosae ) . |
| 10 | By a summons dated 30 April 1991 the defendants applied to the judge in chambers for directions as to whether notwithstanding the order of Morland J. , they were at liberty to comply with the notice and , if so , on what forms if any ; and , further or alternatively , variation or discharge of that order so as to allow them to comply with the notice . |
| 11 | Delegation of management responsibilities will be needed : ( 1 ) to avoid having to take day to day problems to full partners ' meetings for decision ; ( 2 ) to free individual partners from onerous administrative tasks so as to allow them to concentrate on fee earning ; ( 3 ) because it is inherently more efficient . |
| 12 | Decision-makers in crises take trouble in analysing how their words and actions will be interpreted by others , sometimes so as to avoid misinterpretations , sometimes so as to create them . |
| 13 | And they have worked out how to channel the eggs out of the nests so as to keep them clean . |
| 14 | Inflation called for an uplift in many maximum fines , with a power being conferred upon the Home Secretary to adjust financial limits in the future by order , having first obtained the approval of both Houses of Parliament , so as to keep them in step with subsequent changes in the value of money . |
| 15 | By design they had entered the grounds quite close to the front entrance , and they angled their progress so as to bring them into contact with the main driveway as quickly as possible . |
| 16 | Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6 , oil and gas export prices were deregulated so as to bring them into line with world prices . |
| 17 | The Multi-National Legal Practice Rules 1991 ( ‘ MNLPR ’ ) amended rules affecting solicitors extensively , so as to apply them to registered foreign lawyers practising in partnership with solicitors in England and Wales . |
| 18 | The two leaves are , however , linked across the cavity with metal wall ties so as to stabilise them , and particularly the narrower outer leaf ; the ties are firmly bedded in the mortar of both leaves . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | During a series of meetings with US President Bush , the US Defence Secretary Dick Cheney and the US Secretary of State James Baker , Moiseyev was informed that the USA would refuse to accept the reclassification of three Soviet motorized divisions as naval coastal units so as to exempt them from the terms of the treaty [ see p. 38027 ] . |
| 21 | Its primary concern is to find out what its customers needs and wants are so as to meet them with the highest level of customer satisfaction . |
| 22 | I started to write it so as to shake them . |
| 23 | Make a note of the values at maximum and minimum and if they are not of equal magnitude adjust the zero-offset trimpot so as to make them equal . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | I have suggested that it is the function of grammar to reduce the range of meaning signalled by words so as to make them more effective in the identification of features of context , thereby providing for the increased indexical potential of lexis . |
| 26 | Such reforms would either completely displace existing rules derived from the Fair Trading Act and monopolies legislation or they would refashion them so as to make them more meaningful in the era of multi-media ownership . |
| 27 | This refers to the shock treatment applied by Western-dominated financial institutions like the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) to the economies of developing countries so as to make them more efficient . |
| 28 | Similarly Max Birnstiel ( IMP , Vienna ) described studies in which a newly developed and very efficient technique for gene transfer was used to induce tumour cells to synthesize high levels of interleukin 2 , so as to make them more conspicuous to the immune system . |
| 29 | Pre-prepared units of work should be labelled and stored so as to make them accessible to pupils and teachers alike . |
| 30 | They had allowed others to commit waste and make assarts ; they had embezzled fines which rightfully belonged to the king , taken large sums for the agistment of animals in the Forest pastures so as to overburden them , and illegally kept unlawed dogs . |