Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] as [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Grudgingly , he would grant all requests so as to cease the torture inflicted on his friends . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They 've scoured their record collections for their favourite chic embellishments so as to enhance the luxury commodity aura of their product . |
| 14 | 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 |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | and eased Boardwalk away from the rails so as to take the leader in the final furlong . |
| 17 | But more significantly , it would mean a reduction in investment performance as more funds were switched into gilts and fixed interest stocks so as to meet the statutory solvency requirements . |
| 18 | The standard solution to this ‘ data-collecting problem ’ would be the one adopted by Lavandera herself in her 1975 study , of structuring interview questions so as to encourage the appearance of linguistic contexts which required the subjunctive ( cf. 7.2 ) . |
| 19 | Apart from the very great difficulty of establishing how a couple manage their finances ( in effect one would have to take their word for it ) and the strong incentive they would have to arrange their affairs so as to safeguard the woman 's claim to benefit , the fact that she is receiving benefit may itself make it unnecessary for the man to give her more than is required for his own keep . |
| 20 | It may thus be difficult for a group to organise its affairs so as to avoid the deemed attribution of the knowledge of a director who straddles two companies , in the above example , to the parent company . |
| 21 | This pronouncement on social policy upheld the institution of private property , but acknowledged that limitations might rightly be laid upon its rights so as to protect the poor and weak . |
| 22 | Your book now is going to bear much more relation to reality than one in which the murderer has to perform two or three pretty unlikely actions so as to provide the impenetrable mystery . |
| 23 | All three republics , for instance , had already reformulated Article 6 of their own constitutions so as to end the communist political monopoly . |
| 24 | Given that the implications are so profound , however , there is an urgent need to consider ways in which data from the 1991 census and vital registration can be linked in more illuminating ways so as to examine the phenomenon of the unoccupied in more depth . |
| 25 | John 's advise is to garnish dishes liberally with chopped parsley , red cabbage and yellow peppers so as to reflect the Mardi Gras colours — green , gold and purple . |
| 26 | After the British had signed an armistice with the Vichy administration , a number of Gaullist " explosions " ( the most celebrated of which was a stormy interview between de Gaulle and the British minister of state in Cairo , Oliver Lyttelton ) forced a modification of the armistice terms so as to accommodate the General 's objections . |
| 27 | A person drafting terms for a business dealing in any goods which might be regarded as falling into this category should bear in mind the R & B Customs Brokers decision , and the Consumer Transactions ( Restriction on Statements ) Order and draft any exclusions so as to avoid the commission of an offence under the order . |
| 28 | For any given demand for money , they seek to adjust interest rates so as to make the demand for money equal to the target money supply . |
| 29 | If , for example , the Gnat 's Water Brewery , which operates three inns in a small country village , wishes to close and sell off one of these inns so as to improve the profitability of its remaining inns , it may insert a restrictive covenant into the conditions of sale of the inn in question , whereby the purchaser of the inn covenants not to use the premises as licensed premises . |
| 30 | In pluralist theory bureaucratic agencies not only orchestrate group pressures so as to influence the development of public policy indirectly . |