Example sentences of "as [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What we do not know passionately , offers us no resistance , we pass through it as through air . |
| 2 | We learn about ourselves by making mistakes , as well as through success ; we learn nothing by staying in a rut . |
| 3 | As through water , he saw |
| 4 | If there are problems with illiterate families or reluctant parents , their difficulties can be tackled not so much through decisions about resource and direction as through guidance and persuasion . |
| 5 | So although no route can more truly be called a " beaten track " than the one which heads for the Gotthard Pass , now that the old Gotthard road has been supplanted so far as through traffic is concerned by the Basel-Chiasso motor expressway ( E9 , N2 ) , many towns and villages on the old road can be rated as " off the beaten track " . |
| 6 | It may well become obvious that more can be gained from tiny hooks and tiny fish than using more orthodox tackle and regarding undersize fish as as nuisance . |
| 7 | This suggests that what Mill may have meant in saying that one pleasure is of higher quality than another is that it may be pleasanter without there being a quantifiable relation between them , in terms of which there must be some amount of the second which is as worth while , in hedonic terms , as the first . |
| 8 | Yet education is very much the sort of thing you might expect Moore 's principles to display as worth while in its own right rather than merely as a means to , or even component of , other things . |
| 9 | The only returners that some companies regard as worth training are young high-flyers coming back from maternity leave ; it wo n't hurt to shake them up a little . |
| 10 | Writing this gain as off load and on load and representing the fedback signal current as because the feedback fraction has conductance dimensions , the situation is as depicted in figure 10.8(c) . |
| 11 | By wedding perception with symbols the visionary leader creates a vision , and the vision , by evoking an emotional response , forms a bridge between leader and follower as well as between idea and action . |
| 12 | Er just a points er I think it it you probably had this point clear in your mind anyway but there are different rules that apply as between West Yorkshire and Cleveland . |
| 13 | Contact tests , involving dykes and host rocks , as well as between Telegraph Pass granite and Precambrian host rocks , have been attempted . |
| 14 | There muse be " fair play " as between writer and reader . |
| 15 | The Geneva Convention of 1958 itself recognises that that possibility exists by providing in article 30 that ‘ The provisions of this Convention shall not affect conventions or other international agreements already in force , as between state parties to them . ’ |
| 16 | In this way The Lord of the Rings can be seen mediating between Christian and pagan , Christ and Ingeld and Frodo , as between myth and romance , large pattern and immediate context . |
| 17 | Treaty which , as between member states , prohibited quantitative restrictions on imports and measures having equivalent effect . |
| 18 | Article 3 of the Treaty of Rome contains the following provisions : " the elimination , as between member states , of customs duties and quantitative restrictions on the import and export of goods , and all other measures having equivalent effect ; the abolition , as between member states , of obstacles to freedom of movement for persons , services and capital " . |
| 19 | Article 3 of the Treaty of Rome contains the following provisions : " the elimination , as between member states , of customs duties and quantitative restrictions on the import and export of goods , and all other measures having equivalent effect ; the abolition , as between member states , of obstacles to freedom of movement for persons , services and capital " . |
| 20 | The scales are not neatly balanced as between secularism and religion in our society . |
| 21 | So the discussion , and the argument , began to develop not so much between prime minister and archbishop , as between archbishop and Churchill 's patronage secretary Anthony Bevir . |
| 22 | Even if there is no material breach as between buyer and seller there may still , at the multilateral level , be a breach of the exchange 's standards of conduct , actionable by the exchange . |
| 23 | However , as well as basic similarities there are also major differences as between trade union movements in advanced industrialised countries , not only in the extent of their membership density but also in their role and objectives and the structural divisions that characterise them , which require investigation . |
| 24 | … ( 6 ) In this section ‘ costs ’ means costs as between party and party , and includes the costs of applying for an order under this section ; and where a party begins to receive representation after the proceedings have been instituted , or ceases to receive representation before they are finally decided or otherwise receives representation in connection with part only of the proceedings , the reference in subsection ( 2 ) above to the costs incurred by the unassisted party in the proceedings shall be construed as a reference to so much of those costs as is attributable to that part . |
| 25 | Save for costs on summons and for enforcing the award ( or such costs as are directed by the arbitrator to have been incurred through unreasonable conduct ) , no solicitor 's charges as between party and party are allowed in those arbitration proceedings which have been referred because the sum claimed or amount involved did not exceed £1,000 ( Ord 19 , r 6 ) . |
| 26 | In any other case , solicitor 's charges as between party and party are allowable . |
| 27 | If , say , only 100,000 out of the 200,000 gallons had deteriorated , it would have been difficult to allocate the loss as between seller and buyer . |
| 28 | Whether it is that nowadays people are less interested in playing games as between author and reader , or whether it is that the human liking for games-playing has been transferred to other fields I do not know . |
| 29 | Special provisions apply to adjust the tax liability as between disponer and trustees enabling the disponer to recover tax from the trustees , etc ( TA 1988 , s66(1) ) and also where there is more than one disponer ( TA 1988 , s662 ) . |
| 30 | His most striking example is derived from an experiment by Lackner and Garrett in which subjects heard sentences like ‘ He put out the lantern to signal the attack ’ ( which is ambiguous as between place outside and extinguish ) . |