Example sentences of "[vb -s] a [adj] [noun sg] [conj] to " in BNC.
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1 | This makes it difficult to reach a decision , and causes a nagging worry as to whether the right system has been selected . |
2 | The woman or — more especially — the man who has a deep-seated doubt as to capacity to satisfy a partner in intercourse will more often than not fail to do so . |
3 | That one there has a good appearance but to my mind it 's not deep enough . |
4 | This has a direct bearing as to remedies . |
5 | It is in everyone 's interest that the sale agreement contains an express statement as to whether prior knowledge is a defence or whether prior knowledge will not prejudice the purchaser 's ability to claim for breach of warranty if the material fact is not disclosed in the disclosure letter ( see clause 13.4 of the standard sale agreementAppendix III ) . |
6 | Not only that , if we accept that there has been a divorce between ownership and control in the typical large company , then management has escaped effective shareholder supervision and hence possesses a broad discretion as to the ends for which the company 's power shall be used . |
7 | This appeal raises a single issue as to whether a landlord who has obtained an order for possession in the county court against the statutory tenant is entitled to resort to self-help and take possession of the premises himself without involving the bailiff in executing the order for possession . |
8 | To see something really special today though requires a discerning nature and to an extent it depends upon which technique you want to see at its best . |
9 | Until the Profitboss makes a decision , he keeps an open mind as to what that decision might be . |
10 | Notwithstanding the possible ground for distinguishing between the two cases , therefore , there remains a fundamental doubt as to just how much policy innovation can reasonably be expected from the British judiciary especially in such a politically sensitive area as defence policy . |
11 | What I 've said is that I 'd like to see the existing C P O's become divisional staff at the division that they are working now so that the divisional commander can allow them to stay there holding hands with the new civilian C P O for up to six months if necessary because it then becomes a local decision as to when the when the two have that umbilical cut . |
12 | The fact that we are simultaneously both animal and human poses a real problem as to how the two categories should be distinguished . |
13 | Whilst the straightforward observation of overt activity on the football terraces and of cycles of retribution in school will provide evidence of certain invariant sequences and patterns of behaviour , it remains an empirical question as to whether such regularities are the product of rule following . |
14 | It remains an open question as to what would happen with further repetitions . |
15 | So far as resident proprietors went this rough yardstick makes a useful indicator as to the probability of their owning land in other places . |
16 | The stress on history as paramount provides a straightforward indication as to where such arguments are coming from : not Marxism in general as a political practice , but the Hegelian Marxism of the philosophical tradition initiated by Lukács ' History and Class Consciousness ( 1923 ) . |
17 | Dee Caldwell 's Book of Freestyle Boardsailing ( Fernhurst Books , 1983 ) provides a good explanation as to what is involved . |