Example sentences of "[det] [noun sg] as [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Further , while it was said that the decision of Browne J. in the Bognor Regis case [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B. 169 had been generally approved , or not criticised , by textbook writers , and by the Faulks Committee in 1975 , it was not suggested that Parliament had in any legislation apparently treated that decision as representing settled law . |
| 2 | They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning . |
| 3 | The judge did not , in terms , say whether or not he regarded this evidence as establishing undue influence as it is normally understood . |
| 4 | If on the contrary , the mind thinks disturbing thoughts , like thinking of another man as having more riches or land , then feelings of envy , resentment and disappointment spread through the mind making the whole body cold and unhappy . |
| 5 | They had exploited this idea as doing more justice to the nature of life and movement and the discovery of truth than the older rationalist insistence on the ‘ law of non-contradiction ’ . |
| 6 | Is English law right to define rape in this way , and thereby to exclude from this offence such conduct as forced oral sex ( fellatio ) , cunnilingus , and buggery ? |
| 7 | So we 're going to do this exercise within this room and we 'll need to rearrange the tables , so I suggest that each group as having one table or two tables , put it in a square to work around . |
| 8 | For the expressive value is confirmed when people in good faith try to treat one another in a way appropriate to common membership in a community governed by political integrity and to see each other as making this attempt , even when they disagree about exactly what integrity requires in particular circumstances . |
| 9 | Popular participation in electoral politics began to flag after 1951 but arguably this was because most people felt less urgency as regards political change ; there was no strong and deep-going popular reaction against the government . |
| 10 | The plaintiffs rely on the ordinary meaning of that word as connoting faulty administration or inefficient or improper management of affairs as approved by Eveleigh L.J . |
| 11 | Third , the Registrar 's certificate will be given the same effect as regards further particulars as it has with respect to the creation of a charge . |
| 12 | In correct rural circles , having your lawn turfed is regarded in the same light as wearing made-up bow ties . |
| 13 | Yet Mary Joe forcibly made the point that ‘ exhibitions can hurt the tour when they take place during the same period , the same City or just the same continent as specified sanctioned tournaments . ’ |
| 14 | Nor does his work lead to the same fame as does great success at the Bar ; but some solicitors are as affluent as their opposite numbers at the bar , and they achieve their wealth in a more relaxed way . |
| 15 | In the same breath as admitting that Lightning , the high-end , super-pipelined Sparc chip that it was developing in conjunction with LSI Logic Corp and Hyundai Electronics , was n't going to strike after all , Metaflow Technology also began to talk about a next-generation effort in design that would follow ( UX No 273 ) . |
| 16 | The first principle holds that in stable communication , it is conventional to regard the same word as having consistent meaning from one occasion of use to another . |
| 17 | The struggle to decipher has been presented as a good thing in itself , though construing sentences is not the same thing as achieving intellectual understanding . |
| 18 | If you have nine eight it 's the same thing as saying three beats in a bar . |
| 19 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 20 | We do not have to fear predators in the same way as do other animals , but because we are social beings and rely upon others for survival , learning and fulfilment in life , company is essential . |
| 21 | Option 4 involves taking the power supply as a spur from a power circuit instead of from a lighting circuit , in the same way as adding extra socket outlets to the circuit . |
| 22 | Emotional experience , on the other hand , he thought was the result of activating specific areas of the cerebral cortex in much the same way as activating other areas produced visual or auditory experience . |
| 23 | But one can see immediately that that is not so : the task of the modules is translation , and so the task of each translation module is therefore different ( translating a poem from English to Chinese is not the same task as translating that poem from Chinese to French ) . |
| 24 | In 1981 the executive committee directed that the BDN , which had hitherto performed the dual role of addressing the hearing public on behalf of deaf people at the same time as serving deaf readers , should in future primarily be a paper for BDA members and the deaf community as a whole . |
| 25 | Slavery and white racism , Cutler argues , guaranteed the survival of a folk mode in the midst of capitalist society — at the same time as subjecting black people , as victims of this society , to an experience enabling them to represent a more general alienation characteristic of life under industrial capitalism . |
| 26 | For a long time Laura had nurtured this dream , but Bernard well knew that selling products in your own shop at the same time as supplying other retailers was a risky undertaking ; the latter regarded it as unfair competition . |
| 27 | In recent years he had made a point of appeasing the fundamentalists at the same time as co-opting left-wing opposition . |
| 28 | Your record does n't have to be picked up by all these routes for promotion , but if you enjoy Record of the Week in NME at the same time as receiving good reviews of your live shows and the occasional play on Radio 1 , this should allow you to make impression on the Indie charts or even the national top 100 . |
| 29 | At the same time as negotiating this amalgamation and setting the new machinery in place , the NCDAD and the CNAA were dealing with what Strand calls the ‘ large and prickly subject ’ of the validation of the major art colleges in Scotland . |
| 30 | At the same time as running two homes , Laura was still combining many roles in the factory . |