Example sentences of "qualify [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who , after all , would decline a chance to emigrate because they thought they might later qualify as a refugee ? |
| 2 | Hong Kong says that only a handful of them should qualify as true refugees fleeing persecution , while the rest are ‘ economic migrants ’ escaping the pitiful poverty of their home country . |
| 3 | They have destroyed hundreds of lives — of the women separated for ever from their husbands , of young children forcibly kept from their mothers and old parents left in isolation because they do n't qualify as dependants . |
| 4 | The nature of the cellular changes responsible for tissue differentiation are not well understood , but at the cellular level they do qualify as hereditary changes : each kind of cell gives rise to its own kind at cell division . |
| 5 | Vickery ( 1973 ) argues that it is only the latter , based on knowledge and skills that are at an advanced level rather than merely different , that should qualify as specialization . |
| 6 | The issue , shortly stated , is whether there are touchings which do not qualify as treatment so that consent may be irrelevant . |
| 7 | ( You may wish to exclude sparsely populated local areas on the grounds that they do not qualify as towns . ) |
| 8 | IT must surely qualify as ecclesiastical culture-shock to attend the annual assemblies of both Anglicans and Methodists on the same day in different English cities . |
| 9 | It must also qualify as one of Britain 's oddest public companies . |
| 10 | Costs which do not qualify as issue costs should be written off to the profit and loss account as incurred . |
| 11 | Thus , although he does not enumerate a catalogue of rights it seems clear that it is chiefly the conventional political and civil liberties , including a right to freedom of conscience , that are associated with the traditional doctrine of liberalism which would qualify as rights in the strong sense . |
| 12 | Although this habit does not qualify as conventional tool use , the behaviour of the Egyptian vulture certainly does . |
| 13 | If , however , you are resident but there is a chance that you might move , the country where you are living would not qualify as your domicile . |
| 14 | However , in order to discover whether the history of the longue durée , and of structures and conjonctures , can be couched in the strongly counterfactual form spelled out , for example , by Miller , and can thus qualify as an example of concessive holist explanation , we need to consider its relations to the actions and intentions of individuals much more carefully . |
| 15 | Some would qualify as mass media on ‘ message ’ and rapidity grounds , but fail on audience size . |
| 16 | After the ruling , Koons told the New York Times that he would appeal again the next step is the U.S. Supreme Court because , ‘ since when do judges qualify as critics ? … |
| 17 | Turning now to impertinent , we can readily see that although the im -is replaceable by zero , it does not qualify as a semantic constituent : |
| 18 | Dunn ( 1976 ) underlines this point and argues that , in some rural areas in Britain , the largest settlements would not qualify as service centres according to some threshold criteria . |
| 19 | Both Mr. Beloff and Mr. Philipson place strong reliance on section 39(11) , but in my judgment an injunction does not qualify as a ‘ reasonable excuse ’ within the terms of that subsection . |
| 20 | That appraisal of the Order might have more force if the Order had provided simply that from 31 July any sum to which a person became entitled other than by operation of law would not qualify as a deposit . |
| 21 | Breach of confidence might qualify as unlawful means ( assuming it not to be a tort in itself ) but there has been no subsequent support for Lord Denning M.R. 's suggestion that the concept might extend to ‘ interference with the press . ’ |
| 22 | Which only goes to show ( so it is said ) that existential propositions are general propositions , or else they do not qualify as genuine propositions at all . |
| 23 | They can be objects of thought-acts in reflective consciousness , but they do not qualify as ontological existents . |
| 24 | The conclusion derived from this is that if an object is such that in principle it can not be referred to directly and unequivocally with a simple symbol , only described , then it can not qualify as a fundamental ontological existent . |
| 25 | No object can qualify as a possible ontological existent if its notion gives rise to a contradiction . |
| 26 | After which an attempt was made to set out the most elementary logical conditions that must be satisfied before anything can qualify as a potential existent . |
| 27 | She was determined he should qualify as a doctor and just as determined that he should practise here . |
| 28 | however , the strategy should switch from defence to attack such that these sites ( and others that may not qualify as the finest , rarest or most representative examples ) are protected as sources of biological quality ( Ffynnon Bywyd ? ) from which an impoverished countryside can be recolonised through schemes like ‘ Tir Cymen ’ and ESAs ; |
| 29 | In a way , failure to come through with the right steps is deception , because most social interaction is based on expectations of behaviour and to set up expectations and then thwart them must qualify as deception . |
| 30 | It seems unlikely that mere packaging and grading of produce would qualify as an industrial process giving essential characteristics . |