Example sentences of "[noun sg] as [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unlike adherents of other contemporary religions in the Roman empire , except Judaism , Christians regarded their religion as expressing the purpose of God in history ; but whereas Judaism was concerned primarily with the fortunes of Israel , Christians considered their faith to be of universal significance . |
| 2 | Now it seemed to me that was n't a very erm reasonable balance and er comparing that with the with the Secretary of State 's recent pronouncements where he talks about local planning authorities needing to breathe fresh life into the countryside through their development plans and I want local planning authorities in rural areas to give the need to diversify the rural economy as much priority priority in their thinking as protecting the countryside and the two go hand in hand , and comparing those two er points I I would I would put to North Yorkshire the question , Do they think that the explanatory memorandum is is consistent with that er policy statement from the Secretary of State ? |
| 3 | When assessing your budget plans , it is as well to err on the cautious side as regards the additional income you will be likely to earn as — although this has been improving — many so called ‘ retirement jobs ’ are notoriously badly paid . |
| 4 | And it is necessary to assess the nature and significance of the polarization between ‘ multiculturalism ’ and ‘ antiracism ’ in this field , especially given the left 's construction of antiracism as representing the more genuinely radical intervention in this field . |
| 5 | Supporters of the acts did not see the principles of state hygiene as contradicting the moral emphases of the public health movement . |
| 6 | Only special notice from you to those involved that your agent 's authority has ended will prevent you being liable once you have held out an agent as having the right to legally commit you to certain agreements . |
| 7 | To us they seem at least as intriguing and worthy of study as do the signs and wonders which become the obsessive concern of mystics , religious and many others outside the laboratory . |
| 8 | Further , in the simple operation of identifying a given rule as possessing the required feature of being an item on an authoritative list of rules we have the germ of the idea of legal validity . |
| 9 | ( 4 ) Part I of Schedule 2 to this Act shall have effect as respects the notices to be given and the documents to be served on an application for the grant of a licence under this Part of this Act . |
| 10 | If we dissolve a tablet in a bath of water will a teaspoonful dose have the same effect as taking the tablet itself ? |
| 11 | Treatment of the effect or symptoms of the disorder without attention to the cause itself can have the same effect as ignoring the oil warning light on a car ; eventual major breakdown . |
| 12 | Double clicking has the same effect as pressing the return or enter key . |
| 13 | In the present case the only issue is whether there is something in the language of the Act or by necessary implication , to show that the policy embodied in the Act should not be given effect as regards the questioning of a suspect who has been charged . |
| 14 | ( 3 ) The five following sections of this Act shall have effect as regards the interpretation and operation of this section ( and , except as otherwise provided by this Act , shall apply only for purposes of this section ) . |
| 15 | The main failings of the nation lay within its own boundaries , not in the outside world or such phenomena as bourgeois liberalism' , which the authors did not view in the same threatening light as did the more conservative party members . |
| 16 | King : But see where yonder Emma comes to me , In such a light as blinds the eye to tears , The which casts shadows o'er her lovely face And totally muck up the shot , I fear . |
| 17 | The technique of squeezing the last mark out of the examination game ( for it is so artificial as to be a game ) needs as much practice as mastering the breast stroke or converting a try . |
| 18 | Pollution control field staff have defined their central task in practice as securing the compliance of those who pollute , or risk polluting , watercourses . |
| 19 | Anticipating the worst , the hospitality that followed came almost with as much pleasure as paddling the river . |
| 20 | The stream was in full spate , rushing over its stony bed with such force as to make the way across the stepping-stones hazardous for George and Bob . |
| 21 | A number of these things that I have already raised this morning are perhaps are , er primary phase issues rather than secondary but we must remember that the pressures on secondary schools continue as in the primary phase and finally another concern which you are all very well aware of and which particularly if you 're governors you will have drawn to your attention constantly is erm the continuing concern about our educational building stock both in terms of its adequacy as regards the size and the capacity of the accommodation at , where some schools are concerned its need for repair and maintenance work and its need for adaptation to meet the new demands of the curriculum . |
| 22 | Ygarth the wild cat which savaged sheep and escaped drowning made its entrance as did the Burton trick of sinking a sconce ( two pints ) of college beer in ten seconds ( 'never been beaten ’ ) . |
| 23 | It has also been held that where the right which the applicant seeks to protect by action in a court was created by the same statute as provided the ( alternative ) remedy for its protection , the statutory remedy is the only one available . |
| 24 | Photographers who flew over the area described the scene as resembling the aftermath of an atomic explosion . |
| 25 | In order for an apparent consent or refusal of consent to be less than a true consent or refusal , there must be such a degree of external influence as to persuade the patient to depart from her own wishes , to an extent that the law regards it as undue . |
| 26 | Le Roy Ladurie himself characterises peasant witchcraft as expressing the frustration , anxiety and fear of people who were ‘ disillusioned with ideologies of urban origin , brutalised after 1560 by war , and haunted by the spectres of misery and death — and often by fears of sexual failure ’ . |
| 27 | These soldiers were generally known as Brabançons , but sometimes as Navarrese or Basques or Germans , not so much to indicate their precise place of origin as to express the fact that they were foreigners and spoke a language which was not understood . |
| 28 | Because of this the government sees this work as providing the largest single contribution to its casualty reduction target for the year 2000 . |
| 29 | Shklar regards Dicey 's work as constituting the most influential restatement of the rule of law since the eighteenth century . |
| 30 | This reflects a common tendency in India to think of rigorous imprisonment and vocational work as meaning the same thing : little distinction is made between punishment and rehabilitation in the prison context . |