Example sentences of "as give the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once employers and educationalists take as given the need to look beyond themselves and their own internal interests , there will be the possibility of a braver and newer world , that is more humanitarian and more caring . |
| 2 | Within this chapter our concern is with those , both Marxist and non-Marxist , who have taken as given the particular direction in which technology has developed , and with those who , while accepting that it is possible and desirable to exercise some social control over technology , have taken the view that there is no fundamental conflict at the work-place and that the system of organisation there can be optimised in the light of a set of objectives to which they assume all would be able to agree . |
| 3 | But the relation of labourism to the working class was passive ; it accepted as given the position of the class and its organisations in an historically-evolved bourgeois society . |
| 4 | The cleft structure quite reasonably presents as given the assumption that the book is trying to depict something ( all books do ) . |
| 5 | Perhaps more fundamentally , we take as given the basic framework of political institutions . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | For it was the general election of 1931 which so drastically altered the balance of parties in the House of Commons as to give the politics of the 1930s its special character . |
| 8 | A pair of wellington boots stood below a big black overcoat in such a way as to give the impression that a very tall man was standing against the wall , watchful and silent . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The eminence referred to is not a striking local geographical feature , and the ‘ small Rivulet ’ is presumably the Fleet River , which was so often flash-flooded as to give the area towards Battle Bridge ( Kings Cross ) the name of ‘ Pancras Wash ’ . |
| 11 | Yanto laughed when he realised the old joker had palmed the sawdust and was allowing it to trickle in such a way as to give the impression that it was trickling from his ear . |
| 12 | The upper skin of the armadillo 's body has evolved into a hard horny covering that is hinged in such a way as to give the animals at least some degree of flexibility . |
| 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 | If the regulations are so framed as to give the directors an unfettered discretion the court will interfere with it only on proof of bad faith and since the directors will not be bound to disclose either their grounds or their reasons , the difficulty of discharging the onus of proof is especially great . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Not all the results were of the same high quality ; nevertheless the music they arranged reinforced the choreographer 's design by giving the plot atmosphere , local colour , continuity and flow as well as giving the dancing its rhythmic vitality , emotion and mood . |
| 19 | The Committee opposed these as giving the US airlines an added advantage . |
| 20 | So Mr Clarke routinely hailed his bill as giving the NHS ‘ a new lease of life ’ . |
| 21 | Red campion ( Silene dioica ) with its bright red jagged flowers is aptly known as ‘ cock 's comb ’ , while ragged robin Lychnis flos-cuculi is referred to as giving the bright picture of a ‘ marsh spark ’ . |
| 22 | Providing the right foods to the player on the course can be almost as important as giving the correct playing advice . |
| 23 | Top franchises , with reputable financial services companies , can restore the pride that was lost , as well as giving the status needed . |
| 24 | Datasets from Uganda have been identified as giving the most complete cover available to BGS : They include aeromagnetic , radiometric , gravity , geochemical ( rock and stream sediment ) and geological data . |
| 25 | Parents can be encouraged to use bran in breakfast cereals , soups , and stews as well as giving the child fresh fruit and vegetables . |
| 26 | I think it is because he accepts what is said at the third stage , the eleven and twelve-year-olds , as giving the truth of the matter . |
| 27 | They also see it as giving the Irish government a status to negotiate with the British government on their behalf . |
| 28 | ’ Speaking for myself , I read that very broadly as giving the judge who makes a residence order the jurisdiction to attach conditions , or directions which I think are very much the same thing , as to how the children should be cared for and where they should be once the residence order has been made . |
| 29 | And , a definition of the excellent guest , one who keeps promises given during the hospitality : as well as giving the lad his own Sallust , Johnson promised to create the introductions by which young MacAulay could enter university , and he kept his word , although the boy eventually chose not to avail himself of it . |
| 30 | There are therefore some techniques of measurement preferred by the engineer or other materials user as giving the information he or she needs in design , whereas different techniques may be used by the materials scientist in probing the microstructure and molecular structure of the material . |