Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( g ) The notes are also useful for the preparation of any report on title that may be required for your client 's bank , building society or other mortgagee , the form of which sometimes requires you to state the last purchase price , etc. ( h ) Your notes on title will help you deal with any possible requisitions by the Land Registry and will also indicate at a glance deeds containing restrictive covenants , easements or plans , which should be retained after registration as giving fuller information and exact wording on matters of possible dispute . |
| 2 | We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output . |
| 3 | Exercise is just as important a part of slimming as eating less food . |
| 4 | I think a more fruitful model is one which sees the role of expectancy as providing narrowed fields of options rather than firm hypotheses . |
| 5 | They actually tried to have a structure for the organisation that had doctors , nurses , alternative healers and patients with parity at the organisational level , but they kept the front up that it was run by doctors , because that way they would be acknowledged within the discourses of medicine as having equal power to argue . |
| 6 | A new and very junior partner may make little headway in challenging the terms of partnership offered him where similar terms are already in force as regards other partners in the firm . |
| 7 | If it is true that , today as in 1869 , low-income families pay broadly the same percentage of their income in tax as do middle-income groups , then one needs to explain why a supposedly ‘ progressive ’ tax system has had this result . |
| 8 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 9 | In an area with such rapid changes in temperature as to erode hard rock into sand , soft shells would not have survived . |
| 10 | Social problems are those aspects of social life that cause private unhappiness or public friction , and are identified by those in power as needing some kind of social policy to deal with them . |
| 11 | Mrs Clinton is on record as favouring mental-health services , but how bountiful a package is not clear . |
| 12 | ‘ But where the delivery has been delayed through the fault of either buyer or seller the goods are at the risk of the party at fault as regards any loss which might not have occurred but for such fault . ’ |
| 13 | Competition for scarce resources is seen by sociobiology as involving various forms of behaviour . |