Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was some argument on the English side as to the best way of crossing the river and finishing the whole business as swiftly as possible . |
| 2 | In this experiment as in the other loan choice questions , people must have gathered that both APR and total credit cost mattered because of the way they were being questioned about them . |
| 3 | Erm and and they do not consider that the full testing and evaluation erm o of the environmental harm as against the claimed highway benefit , has properly taken place . |
| 4 | The Crown had intended to introduce evidence of the number of transactions in shares between the members of the Stenhouse family and associated family trusts , and also of earlier agreements between the trustees and the Revenue as to the appropriate formula for valuing shares in H and SW . |
| 5 | LAST year 's accounts were concluded with my statement — ‘ We must continue to be of cautious mind as to the immediate future , confident nevertheless that our chosen strategy best equips the group to weather the ongoing economic turbulence . ’ |
| 6 | The authors of the Convention were never quite of one mind as to the obligatory quality they wished to give their text . |
| 7 | However , the size of the database resulted in some confusion as to the best way to proceed with the enquiry , and the next few stages were undertaken on a trial and error basis . |
| 8 | As soon as the result was announced , however , Heseltine and then Hurd conceded to Major , and despite some initial confusion as to the correct procedure it was decided not to proceed to a third ballot in which a preference system of voting would have obtained . |
| 9 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 10 | Scepticism as to the historical importance of this highly personal view of monarchy seems in order . |
| 11 | They believed implicitly in the effectiveness of their method of preparing and getting the bone , and they were certain that the bone 's power stemmed as much from the special treatment it had during the ceremony as from the actual jailing or drawing substances with which they afterwards impregnated it . |
| 12 | By 1980 the succession of troubles along the Iran-Iraq border , combined with uncertainty as to the international behaviour to be expected of post-revolutionary Iran , was provoking a good deal of disquiet in the outside world , particularly among the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ( OECD ) states . |
| 13 | For the complete recognition system however the existence of idioms ( and compounds in general ) may be exploited to further reduce the uncertainty as to the correct input as the following example shows . |
| 14 | Though there is still uncertainty as to the true identity of C. purpurea ( some suspect it to be a form of C. griffithii ) , it grows differently from C. griffithii . |
| 15 | The overlap with husbandmen can be attributed in large measure to uncertainty as to the precise status of a minority whom one return called labourers ( or servants ) while the other described them differently . |
| 16 | However , there are a number of organisations to whom a practitioner can turn for guidance as to the best expert to instruct in a particular case . |
| 17 | However , whilst the decided cases may offer some guidance as to the general approach , their precedent value is limited because each case turns on its own circumstances . |
| 18 | One approach was to attempt to revise the idea of a liberal education so that it might provide guidance as to the proper application of science within society . |
| 19 | It is difficult to say how much force is permissible , and the universal but anodyne expression ‘ as much as is reasonably necessary ’ does not give sufficient guidance as to the true state of the law . |
| 20 | It was possible to see the same sort of divide as at the commercial end : every second house had been restored and repainted , with extensions sprouting in the gaps between them . |
| 21 | Hope nodded his appreciation as at the perfect execution of an ambitious manoeuvre : it was indeed a favoured spot . |
| 22 | On the other hand , damages are not a discretionary remedy and so the courts do not have as much control over the award of this remedy as over the judicial review remedies . |
| 23 | Given this dislocation between the benefit which is assessable to tax and the basis on which its value is to be assessed it is impossible to gain any guidance in the statute as to the Parliamentary intention . |
| 24 | Take the same geometrical configuration as in the previous example but assume that the rectangular coil is moving with a constant velocity u in a direction perpendicular to the straight wire . |
| 25 | In his work as in the present study , there has been an attempt to mediate between the physical world of practices as a determinant material structure and constructivist analysis of the material world as inseparable from the cognitive means of its appropriation . |
| 26 | Resolution of the question whether a statement is a representation or a contractual term , does not resolve the issue as to the legal effect of the statement made between the parties . |
| 27 | The law is now settled that either intention or recklessness as to the respective conduct elements is sufficient . |
| 28 | These rules deal with the requirements of English law as to the actual method of service and also set out the procedure for securing official assistance in the transmission of documents for service overseas . |
| 29 | Let him see therein an infinity of universes , each of which has its firmament , its planets , its earth , in the same proportion as in the visible world … |
| 30 | The 1905 text gives some flexibility as to the precise method of communication . |