Example sentences of "so as [to-vb] the " in BNC.

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1 If the explanation given is correct , however ( and no other suggests itself ) then there is no reason to prevent the prosecutor who has elected in favour of the substantive offence from seeking to amend so as to substitute the conspiracy count instead : a straight exchange of counts based on the same facts can not be said to be over-burdensome .
2 and eased Boardwalk away from the rails so as to take the leader in the final furlong .
3 I knew of one farm where they served the suet and gravy first so as to take the edge off their hunger and save the meat .
4 This was perceived necessary so as to bolster the bargaining position of consumers .
5 They react in the same way whether the electric field is due to static charges or to a time-varying magnetic field ; under the force qE they rearrange themselves so as to cancel the electric field inside the conducting material as shown in Fig. 4.1(a) .
6 This leads to a system of values whose chief criterion seems to be lack of popularity ( that is , of commercial success ) , whose musical politics is governed by a continuous effort to be ‘ challenging ’ and ‘ difficult ’ so as to outwit the equally continuous capacity of the industry to exploit innovation , and whose approach to production is based on a ‘ folk spontaneity ’ model which sees ‘ real ’ music-making as arising ‘ naturally ’ , independent of the influence of existing codes , roles and practices .
7 The frequency is chosen to make sure that the core reaches saturation at each alteration , but does not spend any more than a short time in this condition so as to maximise the final output signal ; the circuit should produce as many saturation signals as possible .
8 Marketing a school involves balancing a society 's needs for a cultured population against the immediate demands of parents , providers and consumers so as to maximise the school 's contribution to the well-being of society at large
9 At any given level of expenditure £n it may wish to optimise its " mix " of expenditure on the various promotional methods available to it , so as to maximise the level of sales to be obtained at the level of promotional expenditure £n .
10 The drafter should therefore draft clauses so as to maximise the chances of severance : the easiest way to do that is to draft separate limitations in separate sub-clauses .
11 Before passing on , I will introduce a piece of terminology of my own and call central-system thinking ‘ cognisance ’ , a term chosen so as to give the flavour of knowledge , rationality , and accessibility to consciousness .
12 Their job was to hold on as long as they could against impossible odds , so as to give the rest of the army time to concentrate in a hammer-blow at the enemy centre .
13 The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance .
14 ‘ Where the prosecution intends to lead evidence of verbal admissions or confessions , the defence should always be alerted before the start of the case of such intention and the terms of the admissions/confessions so as to give the defence an opportunity to determine whether or not to challenge the admissibility of the evidence . ’
15 The poem is written so as to give the impression of fleeting thoughts , which take him even as he is in conversation with these men , Brad and John , in a bar .
16 In any notification case of this kind the local planning authority will be given an opportunity to decide whether , in their view , the proposal should be advertised so as to give the public a chance to comment , and also to discuss with the department ways in which the proposal might be amended to overcome any objections to the proposed development .
17 For liquids a hypodermic syringe is used to inject the liquid through a rubber cap into a gas syringe heated so as to vaporise the liquid .
18 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 .
19 Many of his suggestions were taken up , including pushing back the 17th tee boxes and steeply bunkering the green so as to oblige the player to pitch his second ‘ enabling him to stay on the green ’ , already notoriously difficult to stay on once reached .
20 The received wisdom of biochemistry is that active sites in complex enzymes are close to one another , so as to facilitate the movement of intermediate structures among the active sites , rather like a production line in a factory .
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 Upon receiving the report , the court can make an interim order under s 252 so as to facilitate the implementation of the proposed voluntary arrangement or make a bankruptcy order ( s 274 ) .
23 The member countries thereby aimed to minimize border disputes and to control internal or inter-regional terrorism and drug trafficking so as to facilitate the kind of peaceful coexistence , regional development ( including the protection of the environment through a " rational " exploitation of indigenous natural resources ) and political integration which promoted democracy while respecting national sovereignty .
24 Grudgingly , he would grant all requests so as to cease the torture inflicted on his friends .
25 … it seems clear that either the basic subscription should be increased to say £12 so as to recover the cost of four issues of the journal and leave £7 for the lifeboat service , or members should be asked to pay a subscription for the journal .
26 In the 1914 period the custom was to turn the aircraft upside down and then to load the wings with bags of sand or lead shot distributed so as to represent the various aerodynamic loads which occur under the worst conditions , such as pulling out of a dive .
27 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 .
28 The former s39 ( now repealed so as to open the way for MDPssee below ) prohibited solicitors from acting as agents for unqualified persons .
29 But given that they can have their position specified , and can interpret this position so as to form the pattern , then this provides a very powerful means of generating patterns .
30 Later , as the sac-like evagination develops , the bases of the epithelial cells become drawn out into long processes , so imparting a spongy texture to the tissues of the wing-pad , and the basement membranes of the lower and upper epithelia become apposed for most of their area so as to form the so-called middle membrane ( Fig. 30 ) .
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