Example sentences of "as to [art] [noun] [unc] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Sexual dysfunction may arise from fear of pregnancy or parenthood , anxiety as to the possibility of venereal disease , guilt as to a child 's disability , or anger at the sex role thrust upon one by society .
2 Currently influential acquisition theories provide two different sources for the acquisition of argument structure : a meaning-driven approach whereby cognitively available information as to a verb 's meaning predicts the number and type of elements involved in its syntactic complementation , and a syntax-driven approach whereby information as to verb 's complementation tells the learner about its meaning .
3 Now the erect pointed ears scanned for further clues as to the quarry 's line of movement .
4 As to the defendants ' claim for commission , even if a breach of fiduciary duty by the defendants had been proved , they would not thereby have lost their right to commission unless they had acted dishonestly .
5 Where the owner is present in the vehicle the police officer 's statement will include an admission as to the vehicle 's ownership e.g. ‘ Are you the owner of this vehicle ? ’ and the passenger replies ‘ Yes ’ .
6 Yet divorced from the context of the stage and without the aid of a useful programmatic description of Lorca 's drama in the liner notes , listeners may well be baffled as to the work 's coherence as an orchestral piece .
7 As to the Government 's position on the green form scheme , my noble and learned Friend the Lord Chancellor and my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State said that instead of an arrangement unique to the immigration appellate system , whereby public funds finance two sources of free advice — UKIAS and green form — they were considering concentrating the provision of free advice through UKIAS , so that only that organisation would be publicly funded to give advice .
8 Now Darlington detectives are hoping the crimebusting programme will bring forward more clues as to the man 's identity .
9 Section 7(2) prevents the exclusion of liability as against a consumer for breach of warranties arising by implication of law from the form of the contract as to the goods ' correspondence to description or sample , or their quality or fitness for any particular purpose .
10 In return for the presence of players at various corporate functions the RFU 's elite sponsors would contribute monies to the development of the game as well as to the players ' pool .
11 Mortimer had asked Howard for as much detail about these people as possible , since he was naturally suspicious of the Haitian 's motives , and was also rather curious as to the Englishwoman 's interest in matters .
12 It was too early to reach firm conclusions as to the direction 's effectiveness .
13 As honourable members will recall , Sir Thomas was persuaded to this view by in part a conclusion of the treasurer and civil service select committee , that although the existing permissive nature of section forty seven had worked well it seems desirable in his words , to tighten the wording of the act so that there can be no doubt , either from the point of view of the auditor , his client or the regulator , as to the auditor 's duty to report .
14 As to the coin 's value , much depends on the quality of the portrait .
15 But I would suppose that the Home Office has at least some information as to the judges ' tariff , and probably a great deal .
16 On this appeal questions as to the court 's jurisdiction and as to the proper construction of the university 's statutes have been raised .
17 The court will not validate a transaction where there are serious doubts as to the company 's solvency , such that continued trading could reduce the value of the assets to the prejudice of the company 's creditors or shareholders , such as by continuing to incur trading losses .
18 Care should be exercised in appointing the right agent , and any company entering overseas markets should satisfy itself as to the agent 's reputation and financial position .
19 Moreover I can address myself retrospectively to the perceptual experience as such as well as to the photograph qua photograph , and the logic of my reports will obviously be very different in the two cases .
20 I was bamboozled as to the town 's attraction , and I still am .
21 Eliot 's solution of a widespread Christian community hierarchically organized , related both to the state and individual parishes and containing intellectual leaders , owes much to Benda 's notion of clercs , as well as to the anthropologists ' stress on the connection of religion with society .
22 With a floating rate loan the borrower incurs uncertainty as to the loan 's cost over its term but benefits if market interest rates decline from their initial level when the loan was granted .
23 Kircher 's guess as to the continent 's position was based on Plato 's version .
24 Accounting reports measure profit and therefore provide direct evidence as to the organization 's performance in a year .
25 Often he has to interpret a badly worded question , with no hope of redress if his guess as to the examiner 's meaning should turn out to be wrong .
26 The false pretence ( or ‘ deception , ’ to use the new term ) was no long confined to pretence about an existing fact and no longer excluded a misrepresentation as to the offender 's intention .
27 The problem is that conviction for an attempted crime requires an intent to commit the full offence whereas the ‘ reckless ’ attempted rapist intends to have sexual intercourse but is merely reckless as to the woman 's non-consent .
28 ‘ Rape , to my mind , imports at least indifference as to the woman 's consent … .
29 The offer document must also contain a statement as to the offeror 's ability to pay any proposed cash consideration and must indicate the contemplated level of future indebtedness of itself and the target company , the offeror 's objective in making the bid and its intention towards the target company if the bid succeeds .
30 The guard 's sorrow had been caused by the vet 's mistaken optimism as to the dog 's ailment .
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