Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the LTE accounts showed a deficit , the GLC was required to take such action as appeared necessary and appropriate to enable the LTE to balance its books ( section 7(6) ) . |
| 2 | As far as the short-term is concerned , er , part of the budget package in the current year , er , the retirement and the , the now proposal was to , to help up the side as regards that . |
| 3 | Yet Mary Joe forcibly made the point that ‘ exhibitions can hurt the tour when they take place during the same period , the same City or just the same continent as specified sanctioned tournaments . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps echoing the ritual reality of an annual Easter reclothing of the royal retinue , the episode as recounted six months later to Charles 's camp signified his political " resurrection " and the collective cleansing and rededication of his followers . |
| 5 | In other words , they view the future as involving little radical change ; in this latter scenario it is possible to foresee a situation in which the existing broadcasting organizations continue to operate effectively and efficiently , albeit with some modifications . |
| 6 | The aim of imposing this levy is not so much to raise revenue as to bestow contributory rights on lower paid , part-time workers . |
| 7 | The same irony is enriched and plangently deepened in another fine poem by Tate of the same year , in which once again the many Virgilian echoes point to a deeper affinity — with the fable of the Aeneid as making more sense than he can find anywhere else , for the historical predicament that the American Southerner has inherited and must make sense of . |
| 8 | The empiricists , although they may not have taken up Descartes ' idea that the mind is an immaterial substance , followed him in treating the contents of mind as objects private and internal to the individual and different from physical objects . |
| 9 | ‘ But where the delivery has been delayed through the fault of either buyer or seller the goods are at the risk of the party at fault as regards any loss which might not have occurred but for such fault . ’ |
| 10 | Gerald Vaughan , the health minister , simply reiterated in October 1981 that there is no clear evidence to link unemployment and ill health , and summarised the results of a DHSS study as showing that unemployment has different effects on different families ( to the chagrin of the researcher involved , who argued that his findings showed that the unemployed were more likely to suffer from physical , and psychological , ill health , unless they worked in hazardous occupations . |
| 11 | These include the natural desire for autonomy by the director who sees his institution as serving national and , indeed , international needs and the equally natural desire of the local council to retain control of what it has always historically regarded as its own institution whose main function should be to meet the needs of the region . |
| 12 | So where Schleiermacher had drawn a sharp line between theology and philosophy , rejected metaphysics as an avenue of approaching truth , and stressed consciousness as lying deeper than rationality , Hegel subsumed theology under philosophy , and gave reason the highest place . |
| 13 | We may think of consciousness as having two components : sensation and perception on the one hand and willing or agency on the other ; or input and output . |
| 14 | 3 Deliver the script as typescript , double-spaced on one side of A4 paper , but should the Author ask the Publisher to prepare the script as required such costs shall be borne by the Author . |
| 15 | The water drops into the Swanage brook as does another spring at Carrants Court further west . |
| 16 | ( 5 ) A licence under this Part of this Act may , in a case where it is proposed to construct or convert premises for a seamen 's canteen , be a provisional licence to be made final after the proposal has been carried out ; and Part II of the said Schedule 2 shall have effect as respects such licences . |
| 17 | Third , the Registrar 's certificate will be given the same effect as regards further particulars as it has with respect to the creation of a charge . |
| 18 | As the renewable energy sources develop they will inevitably quickly lose their present quaint , pastoral image and the concepts of noise and horizon pollution will assume as significant a rôle in the public bestiary as do atmospheric and nuclear pollution today . |
| 19 | In correct rural circles , having your lawn turfed is regarded in the same light as wearing made-up bow ties . |
| 20 | You might think of it like the clock in your hall being set forwards or backwards at the beginning and end of Summer Time , so that it registers nightfall as coming first later and then earlier … ’ |
| 21 | Family planning practice as made possible by an operation such as vasectomy or tubeligation , or the use of physical contraceptives makes the prevention of birth explicit and deliberate . |
| 22 | Few would argue that his departure from the court will leave as big a gap as did those of the last two justices to retire : Thurgood Marshall , the first black on the court , and William Brennan , its liberal conscience through four decades and one of its finest minds in two centuries . |
| 23 | Blanket speed limits applied to all vehicles must be set at such a low figure as to ensure reasonable safety with the most badly designed vehicle when it is in the worst acceptable state of maintenance . |
| 24 | A new and very junior partner may make little headway in challenging the terms of partnership offered him where similar terms are already in force as regards other partners in the firm . |
| 25 | If we find or feel that we have n't got sufficient information to make a proper recommendation as seems likely than again we will report accordingly but there are implications obviously on that . |
| 26 | I I take your point that yes you have submitted er a a proposal as have other parties er to the discussion . |
| 27 | If a left ear advantage , per se , were considered indicative of right-sided speech then up to this proportion of right handers would be classified on such a test as having right hemisphere speech . |
| 28 | For my purposes here it is convenient to regard Barthes 's work as having two phases ; the first in which he is concerned with semiology , the second in which he is concerned with discourse . |
| 29 | Taylor Walker managing director David Longbottom said : ‘ Unlike our European counterparts , in the UK we do not perceive bar work as having professional status . |
| 30 | The original double entrance doors to the booking hall had been replace by an utterly incongruous picture window as had adjacent booking hall and waiting room windows . |