Example sentences of "[verb] to as " in BNC.
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| 1 | From being a peripheral aspect of police practice , unrecognized in the courts and rarely adverted to as a ground for arrest , detention followed by interrogation has become a central pivot in the battle against crime . |
| 2 | Left realism is not intentionally racist , but it has been responded to as such , because of the complex element of police racism . |
| 3 | In this approach , each participant in a discourse has a presupposition pool and his pool is added to as the discourse proceeds . |
| 4 | The UUAC was looked to as the natural vehicle for action . |
| 5 | A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect , be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be . |
| 6 | The basis of that decision was stated by Lord Greene MR , at p. 370 : " A term created by a leasehold tenancy agreement must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something which can , at the time when the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be . |
| 7 | A term created by a lease must be expressed either with certainty and specifically or by reference to something that can at the time the lease takes effect be looked to as a certain ascertainment of what the term is meant to be ( Lace v Chantler [ 1944 ] KB 368 : lease " for the duration of the war " was void for uncertainty ) . |
| 8 | The local village Soviet , whose members Makarenko referred to as ‘ a lot of parasites ’ , declared that the Trepke cistern was state property . |
| 9 | To correct the curve it was necessary to stretch the concavity and contract the convexity — in furtherance of which he spent a good deal of his time moving across the floor in a peculiar creeping posture , which Doctor Staples referred to as ‘ Klapp 's crawl ’ . |
| 10 | Both were scathing about the failures of state socialism in the DDR which they referred to as ‘ the Russian system ’ . |
| 11 | The second group Miller referred to as |
| 12 | Acknowledging the problems inherent in the learned safety hypothesis , Kalat ( 1977 ) suggested a revision which he referred to as ‘ learned non-correlation ’ . |
| 13 | The non-associative nature of the phenomenon was emphasized by Gibson and Gibson ( 1955 ) , who made a firm distinction between their own account and the associative interpretation , which they referred to as ‘ enrichment ’ . |
| 14 | The latter had a less favourable nickname for the SAS , whom they referred to as the ‘ Parashites ’ for a while . |
| 15 | The Nazis also pioneered in the field of book destruction in their self-imposed task of reducing the multi-cultural nature of German society by the elimination of that quintessentially literate people whom Stalin referred to as ‘ cosmopolitan elements ’ . |
| 16 | But as Henry remarked to Elinor as the cortège moved away from Darby 's , the undertaker in the village , a charabanc might have been a more decent way of moving the extraordinarily large number of people who turned out for what Sprott referred to as ‘ the big goodbye ’ for Donald Templeton MD . |
| 17 | The House of Commons Agriculture Committee recognised the problem but failed to propose any detailed scheme except to call for increased rates of HLCAs in the Scottish Highlands and Islands ( which it referred to as ‘ disfavoured areas ’ ) without extending its sights to the remainder of the UK 's uplands . |
| 18 | Innumerable short encounters were jotted down in his diaries , which he referred to as ‘ memorandum books ’ , as well as in the Guide Book . |
| 19 | The Scots pine ( Pinus sylvestris ) , which Watkins referred to as ‘ The Tree of the Ancient Track ’ , meets several of these criteria . |
| 20 | Tom unbuttoned his overcoat , fished in the pocket of the dark suit which he scathingly referred to as his ‘ city uniform ’ for his identity card and flashed it at the uniformed security man . |
| 21 | Here the sales staff glided about with languid grace more reminiscent of Paris than New York , the house models managed to look like elegant advertisements for Varna even after a long session of standing stock still while a toile was pinned and draped and adjusted around them , and even when a rail of sample clothes had to be wheeled across the hallowed expanse of green , carefully hidden inside grey and black sample bags to make sure they were safe from the photographic eye of a fashion spy , it was managed with what Hugo referred to as ‘ panache ’ . |
| 22 | Virus F/x-01–74482 , soon referred to as , simply , the Mahon virus was , as far as she could understand , a unique example of something that up till now had only been postulated : that deep in the ocean , under the terrific pressure and in temperatures approaching absolute zero , there had remained chains of biochemicals , primitive viruses that had been part of the great ‘ organic soup ’ at the creation of life , remaining unchanged as the rest of the primordial swamp had undergone the long evolutionary journey to form all the complexities of life on earth . |
| 23 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 24 | Fraser-Smith was a vigorous defender of the tribe 's right to live in the Serengeti national park , but deplored the moran system and worked hard in the face of what he repeatedly referred to as their ‘ stultifying conservatism ’ to make the Masai appreciate the benefits of modern ranching . |
| 25 | Behind all this was discernible the dim outlines of an even grander vision — a vision of an Anglo-Saxon world state , in which Britain , the white dominions and America ( realigned with Britain after what Curtis referred to as the ‘ schism ’ of 1775 ) would in concert undertake to ensure the peace and prosperity of the world : Curtis was not called ‘ The Prophet ’ for nothing . |
| 26 | The men who ruled India were aware that what they referred to as their prestige would in the end by compromised by too obvious a reliance on resort to arms . |
| 27 | Liza could only suppose that , with her husband 's mechanical knowledge , the powers that be had woken up to the fact that he would be more than useful in what she referred to as ‘ an active capacity ’ . |
| 28 | Looking back to the latter half of our time in Scotland , I seem to have been engaged in a variety of activities : was twice part of a consortium to bid ( unsuccessfully ) for the franchise for Scottish Television ; was appointed chairman of the board of Edinburgh 's Royal Lyceum Theatre Company , a post I held for seven years ; was persuaded to stand as a candidate for Lord Rector of Edinburgh University and ( mercifully ) was defeated by its former Roman Catholic chaplain ; gave poetry recitals with Moira at Edinburgh Festivals and elsewhere ; attacked in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts the moronic language of disc jockeys whom I referred to as ‘ the Anyway Boys ’ ( the word ‘ anyway ’ being their standard linking passage ) — but singled out for praise a comparative unknown by the name of Terry Wogan ; rejoined the Liberal Party ; took part in a shoot where in the gloaming I brought down what I thought was a woodcock but turned out to be a parrot , escaped recently from its cage a mile away ; fished for salmon in Spain where my guide was called Jesus ( and enjoyed bawling for him down the river bank ) and on the way home visited the marvellous cave paintings of Altamira and Lascaux ; proposed ite health of Prince Philip at a Variety Club luncheon and of London 's Lord Mayor at his midsummer banquet ( he was also chairman of the London Rubber Company to which I made some fruity references ) ; and for a year was resident British columnist of the American weekly magazine , Newsweek International . |
| 29 | Our builder suggested a lady whom he referred to as ‘ Barney ’ , who lived in a nearby village and had holiday cottages of her own . |
| 30 | That was what Mary called currant pudding , and his mother referred to as boiled fruit suet . |