Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] [adv] a [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although this area of research is beyond my technical competence , I am assured by experts in neo-Walrasian economics that very strong apriori restrictions need to be imposed before even a glimmer of a general market clearing solution can be discerned . |
| 2 | Aethelred 's initial acts on becoming king should perhaps be seen as primarily a securing of Mercian border territories . |
| 3 | The former proposal could be seen as just a way of improving the quality of decision-making by the High Court when hearing judicial review applications . |
| 4 | In structuralist accounts the state is seen as essentially a factor of cohesion in society , which functions to organize the dominant class and to disorganize the subordinate classes through the use of either repressive or ideological apparatuses ( Althusser , 1969 ) . |
| 5 | In traditional medicine , health is seen as essentially a matter of maintaining a balance within an individual as well as between the individual , the community and the environment . |
| 6 | Purchasing ought not to be seen as mainly a question of routine paperwork . |
| 7 | We find social relationships simplified , while myth and ritual are elaborated … if liminality is regarded as a time and place of withdrawal from normal modes of social action , it can be seen as potentially a period of scrutinization of the central values and axioms of the culture in which it occurs . |
| 8 | This can perhaps be interpreted as either a sign of policy changes feeding through into the yield curve or as a change in exchange rate expectations . |
| 9 | In the meantime , it is clear that many judges consider that the Lord Chancellor 's Department has ceased to act as an intermediary or ‘ hinge ’ between themselves and the executive Government and has become as much a part of the governmental machinery as any other Department of State . |
| 10 | Furthermore , once language is recognised as simply a type of behaviour , it seems to make sense to treat it like any other subject which adults deliberately teach to children . |
| 11 | This is already starting to ‘ gloss up ’ with use , giving both these guitars a friendly , used feel after only a couple of days ' playing . |
| 12 | In most countries bank deposits transferred by means of cheques are freely accepted in the discharge of debts and as such constitute as much a part of a country 's money supply as its bank notes . |
| 13 | Victory was all too easy in this lopsided match and if this had been a boxing contest it would have surely been stopped after barely a quarter of the game had elapsed . |
| 14 | There has been some controversy in recent years over the effect which the plague had on the population , and the bacteriologist J. F. D. Shrewsbury has tried to argue that bubonic plague could not , by its nature , have destroyed as high a proportion of the population as historians have claimed ( 102 ) . |
| 15 | Indeed , according to Ralph Shepherd , the NEB was ‘ widely perceived as just a mouthpiece of the industry ’ . |
| 16 | In the past , the interview tended to be regarded as simply a means of collecting factual information from respondents and , by itself , of little interest . |
| 17 | It is in this sense that language use can be regarded as essentially a matter of the negotiation of meaning . |
| 18 | The strength or his argument is such that it can not be dismissed as merely a distortion of the formula by which ‘ capitalism , is understood as the guarantor of ‘ bourgeois freedom ’ . |
| 19 | The relationship is often hostile rather than cooperative , but this can be treated as just a reversal of sign . |
| 20 | If the managers , or some of them , own shares in Target , these could be exchanged for Newco shares and , provided the conditions of s135 TCGA 1992 are satisfied , and clearance under s138 , to the effect that the transaction is bona fide commercial , is obtained , this should be treated as neither a disposal of the Target shares nor an acquisition of the consideration shares in Newco , so that a manager 's base cost in his Newco shares will equate to his base cost in the Target shares . |
| 21 | The disposal of the business will usually be a " transfer of a going concern " ( " TOGC " ) for VAT purposes , so that it will be treated as neither a supply of goods nor a supply of services , provided the requirements of art 5 VAT ( Special Provisions ) Order 1992 are satisfied . |
| 22 | The hive-up of the business will be a transfer of a going concern for VAT purposes provided , in the case of reversionary interests in property and property used for the purposes of the business , the procedure in para 5 VAT ( Special Provisions ) Order 1992 is adhered to ( see 5.1.3 above ) ; alternatively , if Newco and Target have been grouped for VAT purposes under s29 VAT Act 1983 , the hive-up of the business will be treated as neither a supply of goods nor of services . |
| 23 | She seemed ready to attend one of those cocktail parties where she smeared her lips on cheeks and glasses and cigarettes and napkins and biscuits and cocktail sticks until barely a foot of the room was not decorated in red . |
| 24 | As Jack Sattel has observed , the fabled ‘ inexpressiveness ’ of men can not usefully be described as simply a correlate of their masculine gender role . |