Example sentences of "as [modal v] be [vb pp] from [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , as may be seen from the cardinal importance he attaches to a Herodotean term like the peri - plus , Pound can be invoked by poets for whom the natural subjectmatter is topographical rather than historical , or at any rate historical only so far as history is checked against , and embodied in , and qualified by , topography . |
| 2 | Unknown to many primitive societies , it provides a lightning-conductor for envy , as may be seen from the readiness with which gains of pure chance are left outside an otherwise highly egalitarian ( ‘ envious ’ ) system of taxation . |
| 3 | In essence it ‘ averages out ’ variations in incomes or consumption , as may be seen from the fact that in Eq . |
| 4 | As may be surmised from the foregoing , there is no single body endowed with the responsibility for interpreting the provisions of the Constitution . |
| 5 | The first , as may be expected from the name , had letters as wide ( or half as wide ) as their height , and remain quite familiar to modern eyes , as being the face from which present-day upper-case ‘ Roman ’ type has descended . |
| 6 | As might be guessed from the nature of the Saxons and their land , Charles was soon forced to return and re-establish his supremacy . |
| 7 | Yet , as might be gathered from the secret nature of the procedures , none of this has any formal parliamentary approval , and there is no formal parliamentary accountability or scrutiny of these rather sinister developments . |
| 8 | Marshall wondered , first , whether NPVs for investment to increase market share would always be positive or negative as might be inferred from the BCG matrix . |
| 9 | She had already gathered that her new employer was extremely well connected and , as might be expected from a woman of her standing , required absolute discretion of her staff and the encouragement of her children in a properly modest attitude to the family 's privileged position . |
| 10 | Like the army officers , the writer attempted to justify the recruitment practices of the Guards , and , as might be expected from a serious organ of right-wing opinion , more ingenuity was shown in the search for justificatory reasons than was by the lower-ranking quoted officers . |
| 11 | Marulić also wrote in Latin , as might be expected from a man who had studied in Padua . |
| 12 | This is serious stuff , as might be expected from an American editor who writes Bob Dylan reference books , but there are enough gems to counterbalance the struggle to forge a rock aesthetic . |
| 13 | Uvedale Price objects in 1810 to villages like Nuneham Courtenay ( Fig. 23a ) on aesthetic grounds , as might be expected from an advocate of the picturesque : ‘ Such a methodical arrangement saves all further thought and invention ; but it is hardly necessary to say that nothing can be more formal and insipid . ’ |
| 14 | As might be expected from the above , the most extensive changes to be made were in procedures for recording audit work . |
| 15 | As might be expected from the study of mortality data acute health problems are not equally distributed throughout the population . |
| 16 | As might be expected from the foregoing analysis , an investigation by the DTI Innovation Unit and the Technology Group of the CBI found that innovative ‘ Best Practice ’ companies go to great lengths to generate and capture ideas , from both internal and external sources , with careful attention to the balance of technology push and market pull and the rigorous implementation of screening processes and on-going reviews . |
| 17 | However , as might be anticipated from the progress registered earlier in connection with improvements regarding alcohol knowledge , attitudes and behaviour , instead of 53 per cent only 42 per cent of the ‘ five or more ’ male offenders were reconvicted . |
| 18 | The court took the view that the case raised issues that were sufficiently difficult , as could be seen from the fact that the parties were represented at the hearing by counsel , to justify the decision that the procedure had been an arbitration . |
| 19 | As would be expected from the evidence about marital status presented earlier more men ( 60 per cent ) live with their spouses than do women ( 32 per cent ) . |
| 20 | As would be expected from the previous discussion , the main decline in wage-earning employment came in the ( male-dominated ) industrial sector , while the non-industrial wage-earning category , which includes a substantial majority of women , showed a slight increase . |
| 21 | The position and the number of the ridges so formed vary , but there is a tendency for the ridges at high and low neap tide levels to be the most permanent , as would be expected from the fact that the waves have more time to act at these levels than at intermediate levels . |
| 22 | Analysis of the radio waves emitted by the Moon indicate that the thermal conductivity of the outer Moon increases rapidly with depth , just as would be expected from the increasing compaction of a fragmented medium . |
| 23 | The mean age of patients in the colorectal cancer and benign colorectal tumour groups was higher than that of the inflammatory bowel and normal rectal mucosa groups , as would be expected from the age distributions of surgery for these different pathologies . |
| 24 | This appears to be as would be predicted from the Baddeley quotation — where the subject is performing an important task arousal causes attention to be focused more centrally on it , improving performance . |
| 25 | As will be noted from the list , however , later tradition has set aside Mustakimzade 's doubts , accepting his placement of Abdulkerim 's Muftilik and ignoring his dating of Molla Arab 's Muftilik . |
| 26 | Our non-academic pupils however , were not too concerned about this aspect , but as will be seen from a later section , lack of order was a real problem for those people who wanted to get on and pass exams but were in mixed-ability groups . |
| 27 | As will be seen from the example below , the drama can be far removed from what could be recognised as a child-centred activity : |
| 28 | As will be seen from the six volumes produced so far and — no doubt — their successors , many ( not all ) of the winning entrants use econometrics to establish that advertising is responsible for a specific sales effect ( or part of it ) . |
| 29 | As can be observed from the contrast between I saw him swim/swimming across the river , the infinitive refuses a partial view of an action-like event as intercepted midway between the beginning and the end . |
| 30 | The standard of work is high as can be seen from a small section shown in PLATE 15 . |