Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] as to " in BNC.
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| 1 | My letter to your Honour of the fifth January last being writ before the great events that are upon us now , would lead your judgement astray as to our progress in these fair Isles , for mighty Saturn threw his sinister shadow heavy upon me at that juncture and many untoward and grievous events had combined to cloud my spirits that now are light as a summer breeze again . |
| 2 | Solomon wisely asked God : ‘ Give your servant a listening heart so as to be able to discern . ’ |
| 3 | Thus it has simple computational procedures , or ‘ perceptual primitives ’ , which address the visual array in parallel so as to identity area , centre , point of contact , symmetry , and so on . |
| 4 | Firstly , we 've had a feasibility study on as to what should happen to Chipping Norton , and it has been proposed that it should develop eastwards and this would embrace the land which is owned by the County Council , being the former being the existing County Council smallholdings at Fowler 's Barn and Tank Farm , and also the William Fowler allotments , and it 's suggested that a relief road and ring road will run from the A three six one Burford Road to link up with the A forty four somewhere not far removed from Swingswang . |
| 5 | By a respondent 's notice dated 20 February 1991 the plaintiffs gave notice of their intention to contend that the judgment should be affirmed on the additional grounds , inter alia , that ( 1 ) leave to appeal from the order of 4 November 1988 should have been refused ; ( 2 ) there was no ground for interfering with the judge 's finding that the first defendant was not the agent of the plaintiffs ; ( 3 ) there was no evidence that the second defendant was at any material time under the influence of or dominated by the first defendant so as to be prevented from exercising independent judgment ; ( 4 ) in so far as the first defendant repeated his over-optimistic expectations to the second defendant it was not a misrepresentation , fraudulent or otherwise ; and ( 5 ) as to whether there was manifest disadvantage , the charge was required as a condition of further increased overdraft facility to Heathrow Fabrications Ltd. , without which that company , whose success would have been of benefit to the second defendant , would have been in financial difficulties . |
| 6 | However , try these five examples using both clean and distorted sounds , and then make your own mind up as to which works best . |
| 7 | There 's no indication yet as to why this one has crashed |
| 8 | If an order is made the judge should be asked to include a direction therein as to the interest . |
| 9 | Peter Fuller , the atheist art critic who died in 1990 , pursued the question rigorously as to how art can flourish in a secular society . |
| 10 | Apart from a general limitation relating to development which ‘ requires or involves the formation , laying out or material widening of a means of access to an existing highway which is a trunk or classified road or creates an obstruction to the view of persons using any highway by vehicular traffic at or near any bend , corner , junction or intersection so as to be likely to cause danger to such persons , particular conditions are also laid down for each of the different classes of development listed . |
| 11 | A country 's foreign policy , he noted , could not be separated from its ‘ internal life , its economic and social goals and needs ’ ; the Soviet Union , for its part , needed peace so as to be able to achieve its ‘ truly breathtaking creative plans ’ . |
| 12 | Hard as he is working on the switch , it may be that Bayfield is being groomed in the rigours of international rugby so as to be better able to step into Dooley 's shoes when he finally retires , probably at the end of this season . |
| 13 | Against this decision the applicant sought and obtained leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council , but since there was an issue both as to the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to hear the appeal from Barnett J. , and as to the power of that court to grant onward leave , the applicant also applied to Barnett J. himself for leave to appeal direct . |
| 14 | There might be some question now as to whether they will , but there is no question that they can if they want to . |
| 15 | I think the point has been made er and let me er ask you to correct me if I if you do n't i it 's a fair assessment , the point that 's really being made is there is a judgmental issue here as to whether a surplus arises from over-funding by an employer er substantial investment performance or or effectively unfair claiming between either the deferred pensioners or the pensioners and i it can be that all of those interests have to put into the pot and it 's a judgment as to who actually is doing best in what circumstances . |
| 16 | The question then as to whether feminism and Christianity are compatible is that of whether the equality of women is compatible with a religion which has come from a past patriarchal age . |
| 17 | Indeed by this time Mao is specifically advocating that the Party ought to take a more cautious and less radical approach to land reform so as to not antagonize the interests of the middle and rich peasants . |
| 18 | Even where such process does not demonstrate the incompatibility of the firms seeking a merger it will frequently happen that the actual merger will need to be delayed for an agreed period so as to phase in the new arrangements . |
| 19 | This is provided by the peripheral holes , P. These are some distance downstream from the nose so as to be beyond the region of pressure variation . |
| 20 | If you would like details of your nearest local group so as to be able to help them in activities such as this or to write letters on the cases that they are campaigning on behalf please contact : |
| 21 | Unix Labs did manage to walk away from Judge Debevoise 's courtroom with a minor victory : it got him to set the record straight as to how many copies of 32V were actually distributed . |
| 22 | I think first of all , I 'd like to be very brief , but just to say the purpose of this short report with the appendices has not got any special status with food control , just set the record straight as to what we are capable of doing currently and what we ca n't do . |
| 23 | The legends are screen-printed on , that 's one better than stick-on , but so badly done in some cases that it 's a toss up as to which is the worst method ! |
| 24 | It is suggested that copies ( or duplicates ) be held by both husband and wife so as to evidence the extent of their respective interests . |
| 25 | If the latter option is taken , it is better to spread the intake throughout the day so as to continually top up the body 's supply . |
| 26 | It was pointed out that he was a regular watchman who slept during the day so as to be able to perform his nightly duties . |
| 27 | By any other name , it smelled as sweet to the eager school librarian , and this paragraph will remind many British readers of the arguments a decade later as to whether " library " , " resource centre " or " library resource centre " ( among many other terms ) best described the new organization called into being by the demands of resource-based learning and new curriculum projects . |
| 28 | Nield , J , was unable so to hold for two reasons — ( 1 ) since the Counter-Inflationary Order made under the powers of the Act preserved the lease as lawful and valid though prohibiting payment of rent above the standard rate , and ( 2 ) since even if it had been otherwise the plaintiffs ' contract for payment for professional services was not an agreement collateral to the lease so as to be tainted by any illegality in the lease if such illegality had existed . |
| 29 | The day saloon was upholstered in royal blue watered silk , the roof lined with white silk , the floor covered with Turkey carpet , laid on felt and cork so as to be quite noiseless . |
| 30 | He took no stand , but resigned at the last moment from the Lloyd George Cabinet so as to be ingratiatingly available to continue as Foreign Secretary in the new Government . |