Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The issue which divides your Lordships is whether this House should now reinterpret the principles lying behind the authorities so as to give a right of recovery in such circumstances . |
| 2 | They should aim to enable individuals to use their personal emotional and intellectual resources to modify their attitudes and behaviour and to learn new social skills so as to achieve a stable way of life with diminished or no use of alcohol . |
| 3 | Grudgingly , he would grant all requests so as to cease the torture inflicted on his friends . |
| 4 | Economic life moves in cycles of peaks and troughs , and we must take advantage of the peaks so as to withstand the pressures of the troughs . |
| 5 | The product is a file manager and full-screen text editor that emulates IBM Corp 's ISPF/PDF on the mainframe , and the new release includes complete ISPF/PDF emulation , integration with Micro Focus Plc 's Cobol Workbench , and compatibility with all micro Cobol compilers so as to bring the ISPF mainframe programming environment to personal computers running MS-DOS or OS/2 . |
| 6 | The game has been put back 24 hours so as to avoid a clash with live television transmission of Honved v Manchester United and Rangers v Levski Sofia — so there 's no excuse . |
| 7 | Even if an officer is working on a pollution problem requiring repeated visits , he continues to do the unpredictable wherever possible to provide the polluter with few opportunities to organize his activities so as to create a spurious impression that things are under control . |
| 8 | Accordingly , he formulates a hypothetical set of computational constraints which he claims will both assess the degree of match between two views so as to choose the better one , and typically force a 3-D interpretation which is both unique and veridical . |
| 9 | On and on they travelled , rattling appallingly fast over the rutted roads so as to outstrip the pilgrims who followed them out of each town and village . |
| 10 | The basic idea ( see Figure 9.2 ) was that members agreed to maintain no more than a 2¼ per cent band around all their respective currencies so as to set a limit to the degree to which exchange values could fluctuate ( the ‘ snake ’ ) . |
| 11 | The experience then was that floating did not appear to be very successful since individual countries depreciated their currencies so as to gain a competitive advantage over their trading rivals . |
| 12 | To show this , suppose that the UK has a relatively high rate of inflation and that , as a result , the pound is depreciating : speculators who expect the pound to continue depreciating will sell pounds and buy stronger currencies so as to make a capital gain later . |
| 13 | The advice suggested : ‘ we must try , by adopting a uniformly more robust and aggressive approach , to recover some lost ground ’ and accused the Divisional Court ‘ almost invariably ’ of looking for errors or ambiguities so as to upset the determinations of adjudicators . |
| 14 | The finance cost should be allocated to accounting periods so as to achieve a constant rate on the amount outstanding . |
| 15 | for instance , it might be possible to introduce genes coding for specific receptors so as to alter the stomach or intestinal lining and provide treatment for ulcers . |
| 16 | In view of the recent ’ Dispatches ’ television programme , has the Minister conducted an inquiry into how the police , Customs and Excise and the security services work together and how they share information with other countries so as to reduce the hard drugs problem that each and every hon. Member sees weekly in his or her constituency ? |
| 17 | We would like to see it encompass these and other elements so as to allow every farmer in Wales an opportunity to volunteer a package of agri-environmental commitments drawn from a broad menu of approved activities , as the basis for a negotiated , long term , grant-aid agreement . ’ |
| 18 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 19 | Rental obligations are to be apportioned between the finance element , which is to be charged to the profit and loss account , and the capital element which is to be applied to reduce the outstanding obligation for future instalments so as to produce a periodic rate of charge which represents a constant proportion of the balance of capital repayments outstanding . |
| 20 | For many years it was thought that in the absence of express provision in the original constitution the continued equality of all shares was a fundamental condition which could not be abrogated by an alteration of the articles so as to allow the issue of shares preferential to those already issued . |
| 21 | These are conceptualized as unified , non-contradictory , omniscient ‘ actors ’ , united by the common objective of dividing the working class along racial lines so as to facilitate the economic exploitation of both sections of the class . |
| 22 | In setting up the scheme , care must be taken to judge the range and slopes of the lines so as to maintain the desired balance in the minds of the contractor 's engineers . |
| 23 | If we accept justice as a political virtue we want our legislators and other officials to distribute material resources and protect civil liberties so as to secure a morally defensible outcome . |
| 24 | Many of us Christians have become extremely skilful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications . |
| 25 | Fig 1 shows some methods of equalising slings so as to place an equal load on each anchor . |
| 26 | But now that King James VI of Scotland was also King James I of England he was determined to rule both kingdoms so as to allow no further violence between them . |
| 27 | They 've scoured their record collections for their favourite chic embellishments so as to enhance the luxury commodity aura of their product . |
| 28 | For the first time in their history the Tuareg — the largest tribe of Nomads in the Sahara Desert — recently delayed their annual migration for 10 days so as to catch the final episode of Dallas |
| 29 | In addition , we must try to augment our oil revenues so as to enable the government to invest them for future development in industry and for processes and inventions at present unknown to us . |
| 30 | and eased Boardwalk away from the rails so as to take the leader in the final furlong . |