Example sentences of "a [noun sg] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | It still seemed quite amazing the old traders should have chosen a route as totally inhospitable as this to make their crossing of the Himalayan barrier . |
| 2 | If we fail , you may write and claim a payment as follows : |
| 3 | It is crazy that ( to take the second example ) the Inland Revenue is prepared to treat such a payment as exempt whereas the DSS claims that NICs are due . |
| 4 | As always , try to keep as big a variety as possible on the menu . |
| 5 | We need to preserve the past for the future in as great a variety as possible . |
| 6 | Knox tried to create as wide a base as possible for his theocracy . |
| 7 | All the same , it is important that the trainee should have as broad a base as possible , particularly if he is not certain which field is likely to offer the best opening . |
| 8 | Further , the amount of time available in practice for part time Masters level courses makes it unlikely that occasional work will give awareness of language as strong a base as was provided for first degree work in other areas . |
| 9 | There are no provisions corresponding to the ‘ guarantees ’ of Articles 15 and 16 of the Hague Convention , but there is a provision as to non-commitment to recognition of a judgment based on the Inter-American Convention . |
| 10 | The principal difficulty I have on this aspect of the case is that in Mr. Lester 's submission reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to interpretation of a statutory provision should be allowed only with leave of the court and where the court is satisfied that such a reference is justifiable : ( a ) to confirm the meaning of a provision as conveyed by the text , its object and purpose ; ( b ) to determine a meaning where the provision is ambiguous or obscure ; or ( c ) to determine the meaning where the ordinary meaning is manifestly absurd or unreasonable . |
| 11 | Once a court has upheld a provision as being part of common law it creates a precedent to be followed by other courts . |
| 12 | He said such an Article was ineffective , " but a provision as to voting rights which has the effect of making a special resolution incapable of being passed if a particular shareholder … exercises his voting rights against a proposed alternation , is not such a provision " . |
| 13 | It is also important to remember the Chart Gallery when creating a chart as it is sometimes the only way of achieving the effect you want . |
| 14 | Such a brute as Nostrils would obviously be welcomed unless he tested out as dangerously insane . |
| 15 | Viscount Dilhorne similarly held that if the requested court was not satisfied that evidence was required , direct evidence for use at a trial as contrasted with information which might lead to the discovery of evidence , it had no power to assist . |
| 16 | The founder of the papal reform , Pope Leo IX , had been a warrior as well as a devoted bishop before he became pope , and he led his own troops against the Normans in south Italy . |
| 17 | He looked round and saw the froth of white cotton in the corner , as pretty a cradle as any woman could want . |
| 18 | ‘ Very high increases could lead to a recession as happened in the late 1970s and early 80s due to the oil price hikes . |
| 19 | The trade surplus for the first quarter of 1990 was down 35 per cent on the same period in 1989 and there was increasingly frequent talk of a recession as the major economic indices fell . |
| 20 | However , if we can not influence events where people actually work poor standards will result and this is particularly true during a recession as many of us here no doubt know . |
| 21 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 22 | How , then , should a court confronted with the issue go about classifying a function as public or not ? |
| 23 | That 's a function as it stands . |
| 24 | He wore a sombre , brooding expression that relaxed into a half-smile as he caught sight of her , sending a surge of electricity round her nervous system . |
| 25 | The relegating acolyte does not realise that after a certain date nearly every book is as good or as bad a case as another . |
| 26 | There are other difficulties in making an order in such a case as this where a number of defendants have been equally involved in committing a crime , for the purpose of which a vehicle belonging to one of them has been used . |
| 27 | But the difficulty with this approach for the present case is that Woolwich was in reality suffering from no mistake at all , so much so that it was prepared to back its conviction that the revenue was acting ultra vires by risking a very substantial amount of money in legal costs in establishing that fact ; and , since the possibility of distraint by the revenue was very remote , the concept of compulsion would have to be stretched to the utmost to embrace the circumstances of such a case as this . |
| 28 | Provided the relaxation of the previous exclusionary rule is so limited , I find it difficult to suppose that the additional cost of litigation or any other ground of objection can justify the court continuing to wear blinkers which , in such a case as this , conceal the vital clue to the intended meaning of an enactment . |
| 29 | It is simply a case as I said in my summary that er er C One is a policy that is applicable , because it 's a conservation area . |
| 30 | It was essential , Dexter knew , to gather together as powerful a case as possible against the reporter before arresting him because from that moment the clock would begin to run : Parkin would either need to be charged with the murder or released within twenty-four hours . |