Example sentences of "as [verb] on a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are probably wrong , however , to see this as happening on a large scale or as a particularly significant development in many areas . |
| 2 | This act has as much relevance as trading on a dead beetle . ’ |
| 3 | If you so much as parked on a yellow line they stuffed a mortgage application under your windscreen wipers . |
| 4 | All our relationships relate to God as well as operating on a human level . |
| 5 | We should dispel the myth that the Conservative party is the party of defence and that Labour is the party of surrender — as shown on a brilliant poster in the 1987 general election campaign which depicted Labour 's defence policy as a soldier with his hands in the air in surrender . |
| 6 | For example Adrian Thatcher ( 1991 ) takes issue with the emphasis on private individualism which talk of " inwardness " tends to convey , seeing this as based on a radical distinction between what is objective and what is subjective — a distinction which , though very influential since the seventeenth century , is now regarded as mistaken . |
| 7 | Raw data such as plant locations , weather data and population distribution can be displayed as overlays on a basic land-use map . |
| 8 | There were other good reasons for not enforcing the covenant — length of time and its geographical scope , instead of resorting to an unconvincing analysis of the contrast between the legitimate interest of the plaintiffs and the width of the restraint as construed on a literal basis . |
| 9 | 8 ( 1 ) No right of action to recover land shall be treated as accruing unless the land is in the possession of some person in whose favour the period of limitation can run ( referred to below in this paragraph as " adverse possession " ) ; and where under the preceding provisions … any such right of action is treated as accruing on a certain date and no person is in adverse possession on that date , the right of action shall not be treated as accruing unless and until adverse possession is taken of the land . |
| 10 | Here we seem to be implicitly relying on a further assumption , namely an assumption of topical coherence : if a second utterance can be interpreted as following on a first utterance , in the sense that they can be " heard " as being concerned with the same topic , then such an interpretation of the second utterance is warranted unless there are overt indications to the contrary ( again , see Chapters 3 and 6 ) . |