Example sentences of "as [prep] [be] [adv] [adj] to " in BNC.

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1 without there being displayed in such a manner as to be clearly visible to other persons using the road from within a reasonable distance from the front and back of the vehicle 8 .
2 ‘ without being displayed in such a manner as to be clearly visible to other persons using the road from within a reasonable distance from the front and back of the vehicle ’ This element means that the ‘ L ’ plate must be unobscured , straight , as near to vehicle as possible and not wrapped around the forks of the motor bike or the bumper bar of a car etc .
3 ‘ without there being displayed in such a manner as to be clearly visible to other persons using the road from within a reasonable distance from the front and back of the vehicle ’ The police officer 's evidence is required to the effect that both ‘ L ’ plates were missing , one of the two was missing , that the white surround had been cut off , that the ‘ L ’ plates were torn , dirty or otherwise illegible .
4 All lines on maps , depicting features such as roads , contours and boundaries , are drawn so as to be easily visible to the user .
5 But in a country such as Yugoslavia , which has a ‘ structural ’ disequilibrium in its balance of payments because of past mistakes and accumulated debts , the price of foreign exchange which would bring current demand and supply into equilibrium might be so high as to be very painful to some well-entrenched interests .
6 Although Port-au-Prince was under fire from the oldest and most primitive of artillery pieces , which were so ill-preserved as to be as dangerous to their operators as to their targets , the effect was still terrifying to the populace , who were unused to the banshee wail that echoed overhead and preceded bone-crushing explosive impacts .
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