Example sentences of "so [conj] to [be] [adj] " in BNC.

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31 But for females it is best to be as large as can be achieved so as to be able to produce most eggs .
32 We filed VFR so as to be able to fly over Tui , on the basis of a sheet of actuals which gave a 3,000-foot cloudbase at Porto .
33 It was pointed out that he was a regular watchman who slept during the day so as to be able to perform his nightly duties .
34 Rose had been present in the audience at the press conference and afterwards commented to Taylor that ‘ What is needed is a detector of neutrons that has good energy resolution and is very efficient ’ ( so as to be able to determine a distribution of energies of the neutrons and determine whether they were being produced uniformly in all directions — as in thermonuclear fusion from a static plasma — or instead were on the average moving in some particular direction ) .
35 If you would like details of your nearest local group so as to be able to help them in activities such as this or to write letters on the cases that they are campaigning on behalf please contact :
36 They wear kimonos around the house ; their walls are decorated with fans , and some even learn the language — not just so as to be able to communicate with Koi farmers when they travel to Japan to buy fish , but to embrace the whole culture .
37 For the politicians , and for those in charge of broadcasting , the problem was how to reconcile the need for accountability on the part of the broadcasters with their need for a maximum degree of autonomy so as to be able to carry out their work without undue political or other constraints .
38 The longing and impatience to be privatised , so as to be able to invest freely to keep up in a rapidly evolving public telecommunications world , is evident in every pronouncement from Deutsche Bundespost Telecom .
39 It will also handle both little and big endian byte ordering so as to be able to run personal computer operating systems such as Windows NT as well as Unix , although the company denied that it had any plans to support NT on it — the capability is simply there if anyone wants it in the future , the company said .
40 Nor was every man assessed on landed income an owner , for some used to take leases so as to be able to sublet them for profit .
41 This is a more social one which works by analysing a concept , like ‘ feudal ’ , ‘ patrimonial ’ , ‘ bureaucratic ’ , or ‘ charismatic ’ , so as to be able to use it clearly as a theoretical term .
42 Again a mobile unit will be important so as to be able to gradually move through the woodland .
43 We were given detailed programmes of work , which included visiting families and working alongside them so as to be able to understand their most pressing difficulties , We would hold discussions about national politics , to look at the lack of civil liberties and to examine how the system of exploitation divides one person from another .
44 We believe that men and women together must free ourselves so as to be able to construct a new form of society .
45 We will work collectively in cooperatives so as to be able to help each other .
46 Ifor Evans , writing a few issues later , goes much further : " if aesthetic criticism is to become a reputable study , as honest and sober as philology , it must develop a method and vocabulary as precise and exacting as those of the physical sciences " , so as to be able " to describe with an almost mathematical rigidity the content of a poetic creation or an aesthetic theory " .
47 More recently , some writers have tried to combine elements from various of these approaches , so as to be able to explain both class and gender inequality .
48 She describes how women organized their time creating routines to give order to their days and set goals so as to be able to feel that they had achieved something with their labour .
49 A country 's foreign policy , he noted , could not be separated from its ‘ internal life , its economic and social goals and needs ’ ; the Soviet Union , for its part , needed peace so as to be able to achieve its ‘ truly breathtaking creative plans ’ .
50 It is recommended that hose-reels should be provided when appropriate and sited so as to be able to be deployed effectively on the lower levels of all racked or stacked materials and to provide consistent cover to the floor area of the building .
51 But in 1914 I wanted to be purely English so as to be able to offer myself untainted to Lily .
52 The second set also relate to a 1-kilometre grid drawn to cover a larger area than the map so as to be able to extend the axis line fully .
53 His father having died when he was four , Morel was raised by his mother , who quarrelled with her French relatives , changed her name to Deville , and taught English and music so as to be able to send him to be educated at Madras House , Eastbourne , and Bedford Modern School , until her failing health forced his return to Paris at the age of fifteen to obtain paid employment in a bank .
54 The need for greater international collaboration so as to be able to respond to reactor accidents which have no respect for international borders was urged .
55 It was important to concentrate so as to be able to discuss the film intelligently with Mark .
56 It recommended that the councils monitor the rates of submission of theses by research students in every university , so as to be able to impose sanctions on universities whose rates were unsatisfactory .
57 He had experimented with drugs , but in the privacy of his own home , so as to be able to say that he had : after all , you never knew what you might say and do under the influence of drugs .
58 This is because the Inland Revenue could then argue that Target did not beneficially own the trade at completion of Newco 's acquisition of Target , so as to be able to dispose of it to Newco and fulfil the conditions of s343 .
59 In either case , in order to obtain and to retain business it is necessary to cultivate and accumulate knowledge of the client 's requirements and of his record , so as to be able to offer him attractive terms .
60 Um interestingly enough , in the studies I 'm mentioning here , erm it seems that um in many cases the abusers were quite effective in manipulating the situation so as to be able to get away with it , at least at the time .
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