Example sentences of "were [verb] so as " in BNC.
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| 1 | In February 1992 , however , Lautro 's Rules were amended so as to give other persons served with an intervention notice the right to appeal against it : see new rules 7.28 and 7.3(12) . |
| 2 | If , however , the CLRC 's proposal were altered so as to make mercy killing into a new qualified defence to murder , with the normal maximum sentence of life imprisonment , the central plank of the opposition to an explicit recognition of this mitigation in English law would disappear . |
| 3 | The rules of the Young Communist League were altered so as to widen its membership " not only to those who support its stated policy and aims , but also to those who , while not being actively hostile to its policy and aims , wish to study Socialism " . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Where land was readily acquired so that the farmstead could be enlarged in a logical way , rather than the haphazard development which resulted from the erection of buildings on whatever sites became available , individual buildings within the grouping were sited so as to maximise efficiency . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | In some cases they were turned away immediately , but , where they were invited to give further details , these were matched so as to be different enough not to arouse suspicion but similar in all respects that might be significant to a potential employer . |
| 8 | Under a presidential decree of Aug. 6 , oil and gas export prices were deregulated so as to bring them into line with world prices . |
| 9 | The items were selected so as to give a quick overview of performance in relation to a range of topics including number concepts , measures , spatial concepts , algebra , graphs and number patterns . |
| 10 | Lydia and Betty said so , and when Lydia went into the village shop it was full of people who were saying so as well . |
| 11 | Subjects were presented with a computer controlled tone in one ear and had to match this tone through movements of the tongue which were transduced so as to produce a sound which was relayed to the other ear . |
| 12 | These words ‘ extraordinary medical measures ’ were replaced by the words ‘ life-sustaining procedures ’ which , in turn , were defined so as to be limited to respirators . |
| 13 | Those lines which were oriented so as to be readily named ( e.g. vertical , horizontal , diagonal ) gave a RVF superiority in reaction time whereas the remaining orientations favoured the left visual field . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | In C-1 , Brenda 's turns were constructed so as to be entirely in London English or entirely in Creole . |
| 16 | In some orders , special books of adventure were kept so as ‘ to give valour its due ‘ . |
| 17 | This liability would only be avoided if careful records of the sources of drugs were kept so as to pass on liability to the manufacturer responsible for any defect . |