Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] to [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A partner who retires remains liable for debts and obligations incurred whilst he was a partner , unless an agreement exists ( either expressly or to be implied from a course of dealing ) to release him . |
| 2 | The first to be for Members only and to be held on 8th . |
| 3 | Hence as to is marked as as/IN to/IN ’ ; so as to is tagged as so/TO as/TO ’ to/TO ’ . |
| 4 | For instance , permission should be sought before lopping a branch from a tree which is known to be frequented by a Green Lady ; superstitious Derbyshire farmers plant primroses at the foot of such trees each Midsummer 's Eve , so as to be rewarded with wealth and longevity . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | At the Paris Opéra there is no scroll of paper but a good thick rod of very hard wood , struck forcibly by the Maître so as to be heard at a distance . |
| 7 | Then he looked up , raising his voice so as to be heard over the sow 's din . |
| 8 | " The Congressional Deputies had to shout over the loud-speaker so as to be heard above the noisy protest of hundreds of women market stallholders who filled the public galleries . " |
| 9 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 10 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 11 | Some fruit — like the cherry and the plum — were moulded for the mouth ; others — the apple and the pear — for the hand ; others still , like the melon , were made larger , so as to be divided among the family circle . |
| 12 | … flows of capital investment , population , technological information , generated energy , water , and the like , together with such constraints as involve interest policies and the mechanisms of group decision-making , can be reduced to comparable units so as to be structured into energy linkages similar to those of ecosystems is clearly an illusion … |
| 13 | We may sec one and the same object changing in shape so as to be transformed into something different — as the baby that Alice was holding gradually turned into a pig before her eyes . |
| 14 | Here for the first time he found something of what the pilgrim on his bicycle had sought : ‘ the sense of mystery , and awe , and of another world at once far and near … a sense that we were vividly in the presence of the passion of Jesus and also vividly near to heaven , to which the passion mysteriously belonged , so as to be brought from the past to the present ’ . |
| 15 | If his mind was too restless to maintain any hold on the spiritual , then did n't he have something far more immediate to face up to rather than to be wallowing in daily bouts of nostalgia ? |
| 16 | ‘ In India ’ , Rosa Luxemburg wrote , ‘ nationalism is an expression of the rising indigenous bourgeoisie which seeks to exploit the country for its own ends rather than to be drained by English capital ’ . |
| 17 | One principal advantage of an integrated approach is that it helps to spread employment throughout the year rather than to be concentrated in peak periods . |
| 18 | ( The new FRY laid claim to the former Yugoslavia 's diplomatic representation abroad , and undertook to continue its non-aligned status , as well as to be guided by the CSCE 's 1990 Charter of Paris for a New Europe — for which see p. 37838 . ) |
| 19 | She went listlessly to answer a knock on the door and was amazed to see John there and to be swept into his arms . |
| 20 | To have ideas like this one taken seriously and to be treated with respect is surely a reasonable request . |