Example sentences of "be [vb pp] so [subord] " in BNC.

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1 Purchase behaviour will , again , be altered so as to come into line with the customary behaviour of the reference group .
2 which established that in the absence of a prohibition in the memorandum , the articles could be altered so as to authorise such an issue .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 The management of investment needs to be optimised so as to deliver a fully commercial return .
6 Huy allowed a beaker to be filled so as not to transgress the etiquette of hospitality , but he did not propose to drink any wine .
7 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 ?
8 " 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 .
9 The uncertainties caused by what constitutes a security interest are greatly reduced by the fact , as pointed out above , that it is a numerus clausus of charges that has to be registered so if the charge is not within the list it is not registrable .
10 I can not imagine how it could be revised so as to be suitable for publication anywhere .
11 Testing will be revised so as to add less to teachers ' workloads .
12 A boundary extension would require new electoral boundaries and these could not easily be adjusted so as to retain Unionist minority control .
13 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 .
14 and it is usually necessary to remove it by flocculation with alum or alum with sodium aluminate , followed by filtration ; the final pH should be adjusted so as to be close to neutrality on the alkaline side .
15 The letters should be sufficiently large and should be placed so as to cater for patients with poor vision .
16 These five possible areas of leisure activities are only illustrative for the particular methodological problem here being discussed ; they are not in fact derived from any research , but they will suffice to show that the researcher should now be thinking in what order they might be placed so as to g*e a sensible progression in an interview .
17 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 .
18 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 :
19 Staff become an asset in which to invest , to be developed so as to help the organisation achieve its aims and objectives .
20 The ROK armed forces were to be developed so as to be capable of handling internal dissent but the issue as to its capacity for reacting effectively to North Korea was side-stepped .
21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 . "
24 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 ’ .
25 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 …
26 It can then be located so as to provide convenient armchair control .
27 It will be noted that the multi-bedroom has a WC and washing compartment with direct access to a lobby for patients ' use while the remaining WC and washing compartments and bathroom should be located so as to be of easy access from the single rooms .
28 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 .
29 Organizations are seen as rational instruments for realizing explicit goals , with different parts that can be modified so as to increase efficiency ( Gouldner 1959 ) .
30 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 .
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