Example sentences of "as [to-vb] their " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of them had already run and spread in such a way as to lose their identity . |
| 2 | They have achieved much of what they sought concerning changes in documents which affect their everyday lives , so as to accommodate their new life-style . |
| 3 | If the worst effects of LMS are to be avoided and its potential benefits realised for teachers and their pupils then teachers must ensure that the decision-making process in their school operates in such a way as to enable their full participation . |
| 4 | Design and manufacture products so as to optimise their environmental performance , including considering the environmental effects when sourcing raw materials . |
| 5 | ( 1 ) To present some of the simpler properties of the sets Z and Q[x] in such a manner as to emphasise their similarities ( and their differences ! ) . |
| 6 | In their efforts to impress the United States , the Romanians went so far as to compare their position vis-à-vis the Kremlin with Cuba 's in relation to Washington . |
| 7 | In man , mammals and birds , however , sound is a major method of communication , while fish use alteration of their colour patterns to communicate their moods , as well as to indicate their status . |
| 8 | The people backing it ‘ bunkered ’ ( disappeared with the money ) and as Producer Tiller felt morally bound to pay off all the artistes himself as well as to find their return fares . |
| 9 | The idea is that they feed the other side with what appears to be genuine material so as to establish their credibility and then the other side asks them to do things for them on their own home ground . |
| 10 | LEEDS opened and finished this Regal Trophy second-round game at Headingley with tries of such quality as to mollify their followers for all the dross in between . |
| 11 | For example , when we say ‘ genes are trying to increase their numbers in future gene pools ’ , what we really mean is ‘ those genes that behave in such a way as to increase their numbers in future gene pools tend to be the genes whose effects we see in the world ’ . |
| 12 | They include restructuring drift angles of injector wells through the reservoir so as to increase their verticality to enhance thermal fracturing . |
| 13 | Since , however , local authorities were enabled to subsidize established voluntary grammar schools as well as to found their own secondary schools , social divisions in secondary education were reinforced . |
| 14 | Bulbs of the future which are on show include daffodils of the ‘ split corona ’ or ‘ butterfly ’ type with double cups so heavily ruffled as to obscure their identity . |
| 15 | All the great hunters and stalkers — whether of white or brown skin — have had the ability to consciously or unconsciously ‘ close down ’ or quieten their mind and body , as well as to conceal their activity while stalking or awaiting their prey . |
| 16 | Although all four strategies may be separated so as to discuss their major characteristics , in practice countries commonly adopt a combination of two or more types ; ( Murley , 1991 ; UN ECE , 1987 ) . |
| 17 | Yet other Western states , still grappling with the aftermath of 1973 , pressured Schmidt to reflate the West German economy faster so as to help their own recovery . |
| 18 | They hired the first agent , ‘ Digs ’ , of Oxford Street , to manage as well as to let their flat . |
| 19 | It can be argued that such schemes should be embodied in statutes so as to put their administration and the principles of compensation on a firm legal footing . |
| 20 | Having made a decision on travel as their retirement hobby , they may have to live very modestly so as to finance their trips overseas . |
| 21 | The only certainty is that those nations that are victorious will write what is later termed ‘ history ’ , and will do it in such a way as to justify their actions . |
| 22 | But whereas those satirists recreated a context with omniscience in such a way as to justify their final attack , the poet here can give us no such context . |
| 23 | The Marshal had seen them as they stood gossiping in the street at an equal distance between the two buildings so as to keep their doors in view , but it would be a waste of time trying to get her to admit it . |
| 24 | A famous example nearer to our own time is that of the Christian martyr Simone Weil , who joined the Renault workers on the assembly line so as to share their debasement , and worked on the land for the same reason , absurdly so in view of her frail physique . |
| 25 | The sand functions as a ground plane or as a surrogate elevation and enables me to shift building elements so as to understand their sculptural capacity . |
| 26 | 17th century male dancers were trained to dance female roles and were often called upon to do so in serious works , costumed in such a way as to disguise their gender . |
| 27 | The cost of keeping up a navy was already the really large item in the expenses of empire , but the English needed a navy for their own safety from invasion as well as to protect their trade , so the colonies — and perhaps particularly the West Indian colonies — got some benefit from money the English would have had to spend in any case . |
| 28 | Let us assume that insiders are now willing to accept a real wage reduction so as to protect their jobs . |
| 29 | All in all , a pitiful collection , but he was n't so self-deceiving as to believe their relationship had been much more than a sum of those parts . |
| 30 | It is at this point that he starts selling his clients out of as much stock as possible , so as to release their capital for the investment propositions he will offer them in his next post . |