Example sentences of "as [to-vb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( 2 ) The Panel accepts that for reasons of secrecy it is not prudent to make enquiries so as to include in an announcement details of the target 's shares held by other parts of an adviser 's group ( the adviser acting in concert with the offeror for these purposes ) . |
| 2 | We organized at least a dozen ‘ Letters to the Editor ’ each day — these were mainly unsolicited , but we encouraged more — and spread them about so as to appear in a number of newspapers and magazines across the country . |
| 3 | To go to the movies was as natural as to walk in the streets and indeed the one was just an extension of the other . |
| 4 | By 1794–5 democratic radicals were using public meetings against the war and domestic social crisis in such a way as to constitute in the eyes of the authorities ‘ tumultuous petitioning ’ and potentially seditious attempts to coerce parliament . |
| 5 | In all cases , educational desirability must be balanced against practicality and system availability , and these restrictions may be so severe as to result in the rejection of the design idea . |
| 6 | She trotted off again , through a really insalubrious area known as Bligh 's Corner , after some landlord , long dead , and she unconsciously quickened her pace a little so as to arrive in the relatively respectable square where the rectory stood , next door to St Jude 's church where Dr Neil 's household worshipped every Sunday . |
| 7 | " that it is desirable that before anything is done as to interfere in the internal arrangement of the School , that application be made to the Goldsmiths ' Company for an additional grant . " |
| 8 | They do not like by-elections , for in them a candidate of their own party may , win or lose , find the opportunity to display himself so advantageously as to become in the next general election a fearsome competitor . |
| 9 | The address to send stuff to is DR BUTCHER ( MD ) , COMMODORE FORCE , So , if Nurse Enema would be so kind as to wheel in the first vict … erm patient , I 'll sharpen my instruments . |
| 10 | A salient characteristic of the internal structure of' the elite is that it is rational , in the sense that it is structured so as to achieve in a purposeful and conscious manner the objectives of the elite as a whole . |