Example sentences of "as [to-vb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In preparing my statement so as to include another recent event , I was following the behaviour of my predecessors , who have done the same on such occasions . |
| 2 | In order to investigate the operation of such constraints , we will first look at some theoretical models which cast light on the various problems involved in the government-management " game " , before turning to the next section to consider some features of the control structure in the UK , so as to see some practical illustrations of the points . |
| 3 | They are well placed to see the changes of behaviour that may indicate abuse , as well as to observe any physical evidence . |
| 4 | Those that are so general as to encompass many alternative learning paths are at the mercy of the pragmatic needs and preferences of SAT developers and the uncertainties of interpretation by teachers during classroom assessment . |
| 5 | Question 15 Should the hardship test be applied to all claims on the compensation fund so as to exclude all institutional and most corporate applicants ? |
| 6 | It is not that they are less likely to be murdered , raped , robbed , or assaulted — although the best scientific evidence based on victimization surveys shows this to be true ( Hindelang , Gottfredson , and Garofalo 1978 ) — but that in the criminal law , definitions of murder , rape , robbery , assault , theft , and other serious crimes are so constructed as to exclude many similar , and in important respects , identical acts , and these are just the acts likely to be committed more frequently by powerful individuals . |
| 7 | I varied the days and the times of my visits so as to catch this resourceful woman at her different occupations , for example making the wild boar and hind sausages , for which she was renowned in the neighbourhood , and the tarts filled with medlars that grew against the wall of her stable . |
| 8 | In a radically different approach to filter design , a filter is synthesised so as to provide some preconceived functional form of frequency response that exhibits certain desirable features . |
| 9 | This was followed in 1988 by a reform of the Community Budget in which steps were taken to shift expenditure from agricultural to the structural funds , that is those concerned with regional and social matters , and the expenditure rules were recast so as to concentrate such structural spending on the poorest regions . |
| 10 | On the northern coalfield the rejection of badly filled corves on the grounds that they had been deliberately underfilled — " they will sometimes be so roguish as to set these big coals hollow at the Corfe bottom , and cover them with some small coals at the top of the Corves , and make it look like a full Corfe " — was a long-running grievance which led to a strike at one mine in 1751 . |
| 11 | Where there is a contractual right to the costs , the discretion should ordinarily be exercised as to reflect that contractual right . |
| 12 | However , his stated grounds for that opinion were a figment of his imagination : his misdescriptions of the performance were so fundamental as to vitiate any factual basis for his criticism . |
| 13 | If you believe that Hollis was a Russian agent then the Crabb affair fits neatly into the jigsaw but , as so often happens in the intelligence world , the same set of facts can be tinkered and tailored with so as to fit any preconceived belief . |
| 14 | ‘ Charlotte and I used to try and hide together , so as to avoid all that ghastly heartiness our families went in for . |
| 15 | So as to avoid any political consideration of policies , the auditor 's brief is to monitor and report upon agencies ' and departments ' approaches for monitoring and reviewing their own effectiveness . |
| 16 | He was then to return home at once via Montreal , using his Thomas Leavy identity on re-entering the United States so as to avoid any tell-tale entry stamp in his passport . |
| 17 | There remains , however , a question of principle which has not been fully considered : should the fault element in offences against the person be widened so as to criminalize some negligent causing of physical harm ? |
| 18 | I am not arguing that moral rights get their sole authority from contiguous laws , although they can , but rather that the existence of such laws , having been passed in a deliberative and ultimately democratic manner and being constantly under test by the legislature , is evidence that these types of transaction are important enough for the maintenance of civilised life as to require such formal recognition . |
| 19 | The British Navy thus became the dominant force between northern Britain and Norway , so poised as to frustrate any German sortie into the North Sea . |
| 20 | Something new was developing in the 19th century , argues the historian Albert Hourani , something ‘ created by the vast expansion of the European mind and imagination so as to appropriate all existing things . ’ |
| 21 | By the autumn of 1837 , he had developed this analogy so as to understand all long-run trends in diversification and progress through an arboriform extrapolation , on a changing but stable Lyellian earth 's surface , of successive species propagations ; these being analogous to the successive bud propagations whereby any tree grows , with many buds ending without branching , in species extinctions , while other buds branch without ending , in species multiplications . |
| 22 | This must be the product of a great conspiracy , on a scale so immense and of an infamy so black as to dwarf any previous such venture in the history of man . ’ |
| 23 | Funding would also be provided for programmes to familiarize senior black leaders with British institutions of democratic government as well as to assist those involved in the signing of the peace accord . |
| 24 | Sir [ James ] Fitzjames Stephen ( afterwards Stephen J. ) , in [ A General View of the Criminal Law of England ( 1863 ) , p. 129 ] , suggested as a definition of theft : ‘ To steal is unlawfully , and with intent to defraud , by taking , by embezzlement , by obtaining by false pretences , or in any other manner whatever to appropriate to the use of any person any property whatever real or personal in possession or in action , so as to deprive any other person of the advantage of any beneficial interest at law or in equity , which he may have therein . ’ |
| 25 | Babysave is suitable for babies from three months on and is endorsed by the Portia Trust , a charity which was specially set up to prevent baby-snatching as well as to advise any distraught parent whose child has tragically been snatched . |
| 26 | In addition , the investors will be keen to obtain warranties in respect of the business plan and future financial forecasts along the following lines : ( a ) The Business Plan has been carefully prepared in good faith having regard to the information available and the market conditions prevailing at the time of its preparation and the figures contained therein have been carefully considered and are honestly believed to be reasonable and the Managers have made all reasonable enquiries so as to ascertain all such information and conditions which are relevant to the preparation of the forecasts contained therein . |
| 27 | The court 's inability to determine those matters is not limited to the period pending the visitor 's determination but extends so as to prohibit any subsequent review by the court of the correctness of a decision made by the visitor acting within his jurisdiction and in accordance with the rules of natural justice . |
| 28 | He would haunt him , so as to complete some aberrant equation within his own brain which allowed Brother Yeremi to pursue his exalted , disingenuous ideal . |
| 29 | The Directors of Waterford Wedgwood UK plc are committed to managing the Group 's operations so as to minimise any adverse environmental impact . |
| 30 | His routines were organized so as to facilitate this intellectual process : weekends were reserved for Colombey , where he could take long walks and mull over problems ; workday schedules at the Elysée were strictly adhered to ; he insisted on absolute punctuality and an atmosphere of unruffled calm . |