Example sentences of "[noun] as to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jack is in overall charge of the LDP sales company and the reason for that is to ensure that the same standards and disciplines of product development , point of sale and , most important , profitability are applied to LDP as to Stoddard Templeton . |
| 2 | The point applies as much to B as to C. An example may help : A has a farm , B is his heir , and C is the beneficiary of a trust of the farm ; that is , B is asked to give it to C. The trust disposition makes neither B nor C owner of the farm . |
| 3 | Despite Harvey Pitcher 's reservations as to Martha 's ability to afford such a gift , I 'm sure it is just the kind of thing she would have engineered as a token of thanks . |
| 4 | He takes us through Charles Darwin 's earlier years , the development of his ideas , his recorded ( and suspected but probable ) ambitions , shyness , doubts , agonies , successes and rebuffs with real insight as to Charles 's personal relations with Charles Lyell and Joseph Hooker . |
| 5 | Nevertheless , the story provoked questions as to Clinton 's honesty and to his possible misuse of influence in appointing Flowers to her current job in return for her silence . |
| 6 | There was speculation as to Abdesselam 's future policy towards the repayment of Algeria 's foreign debt and towards foreign companies participating in the extraction of oil and gas reserves ; Abdesselam had been a director of Sonatrach , the state oil company , and then minister responsible for overseeing the nationalization of the oil industry in 1971 . |
| 7 | From its stations it is as easy to take a train to Warsaw as to Brussels or Paris . |
| 8 | There were various suggestions as to Balliol 's intentions in this southwards move : that his aim was first to divide the west from the east , then to work round and isolate Edinburgh ; that he knew of Sir Archibald Douglas 's mustering of his Galloway vassals and sought to keep this force from joining the main Scots array ; that perhaps he was expecting further English reinforcements from Carlisle and the West March ; and so on . |
| 9 | Schools in a number of prosperous suburbs are starting to give as much prominence to Egypt as to Greece and Rome in their history courses . |
| 10 | Its population has doubled in the past ten years and will double again in the next ten ; its growth is due as much to the constant influx of newcomers from the Nile villages as to Egypt 's birth-rate . |
| 11 | A spokesman at the hospital refused to give any information as to Mr Keane 's condition . |
| 12 | He 'd tried , in a roundabout fashion , on the telephone to get some information as to Harriet 's means of support , pointing out that there might be others who should be informed of the tragic event . |
| 13 | Having made some preliminary enquiries as to Celia 's well-being and references to that of her own children , Edna had put ‘ Karen , my youngest , has just got her NNEB . |
| 14 | There does , however , appear to be some confusion among various commentators as to Bukharin 's basic position : some , such as Itoh , place him in the underconsumptionist school , while others place him — correctly — in the disproportionality school ; but the latter , e.g. Sweezy , Mandel , Day , do not always attribute the same meaning to this . |
| 15 | The tough treatment of childhood Carol Reed had offered in The Fallen Idol gave way to feyness in A Kid for Two Farthings ( 1955 ) while Robert Hamer , expelled from Ealing , shifted from the controlled savagery in Kind Hearts and Coronets via the eccentric Father Brown ( 1954 , The Detective in US ) to such routine comedy assignments as To Paris with Love ( 1954 ) and School for Scoundrels ( 1959 ) . |
| 16 | There was an issue between the bank and Mr. O'Brien as to Mr. O'Brien 's understanding of the documents he had signed . |
| 17 | But there was no doubt as to Chapman 's overall control . |
| 18 | She made hurried inquiries as to Zambia 's progress , to which Tammuz responded carefully , alerted by her mood . |
| 19 | Yet his curiosity as to Jaq 's request seemed to proceed from reasonable concern rather than from the paranoia which often afflicted rulers . |
| 20 | He was liked by politicians of all parties and factions ; in particular , he was just as close to the Asquith family as to David Lloyd George ( later first Earl Lloyd-George of Dwyfor ) . |