Example sentences of "'s [noun] [to-vb] as [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Landsbergis was referring to a spate of attacks on improvised customs control points which the Lithuanian government had set up along its borders with the rest of the Soviet Union as a demonstration of Lithuania 's determination to act as an independent state . |
| 2 | The system can either access cache data or allow the client 's disk to act as a personal NFS server . |
| 3 | Chilperic 's wish to appear as a cultivated monarch is not in question ; he wrote poetry , however badly , and he showed some interest in such issues as the alphabet , to which he wished to add four letters , and in theology , where he came close to heresy , when he decided to abolish the distinctions between the persons of the Trinity . |
| 4 | In words which betray the influence of functionalist sociology , Titmuss wrote : " social policy … manifests society 's will to survive as an organic whole … and is centred ( on ) those institutions which encourage integration and discourage alienation " ( Titmuss 1963 : 39 ) . |
| 5 | The going concern ED proposed that auditors should obtain a statement from the directors confirming their considered view that the company is a going concern ; that , in forming an opinion on whether the company is a going concern , the auditors should look ahead one year from the date of the directors ' approval of the accounts ; and that , even if disclosures in the accounts of any matters giving rise to an uncertainty that could affect the company 's ability to continue as a going concern are adequate , the auditors should draw attention to the matters in their report . |
| 6 | The most significant are that the proposed SAS requires auditors to be active , rather than passive , and to perform procedures specifically designed to identify circumstances which might call into question the appropriateness of the going concern basis ; that the future period which should be considered by both the directors and auditors in assessing the validity of the going concern basis should be extended to one year from the date the accounts are approved by the directors ; and that emphasis is now placed on the need for adequate disclosures in accounts of matters giving rise to inherent uncertainties that affect a company 's ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 7 | It is therefore also important that the final SAS makes clear the degree of assurance that a clean auditors ' report will be expected to provide , with regard to a company 's ability to continue as a going concern . |
| 8 | In January 1949 the British cabinet ruled that co-operation with Europe should not be taken so far that it compromised Britain 's ability to survive as an independent state . |