Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Incidentally , and irrelevantly for present purposes , that reasoning has led to the well-established conclusion that a child en ventre sa mère at a testator 's death but later born alive may rank as a life in being for the purposes of the rule against perpetuities , which is a rule of public policy under English law : see Long v. Blackhall ( 1797 ) 7 Durn. & E. 100 . |
| 2 | For Lebanon was run by the zaim ( or , more accurately , zuama ) , the ‘ leaders ’ , the powerful feudal chieftains whom the Lebanese would describe as ‘ honoured families ’ but whom the average Westerner would quickly identify as mafiosi . |
| 3 | But this general rule is hedged about with various provisos , of which the following will serve as a specimen : |
| 4 | These criteria need careful elaboration , but the following will serve as a preliminary illustration of the points : |
| 5 | A full description is beyond the scope of this work but the following will serve as examples . |
| 6 | For those who have yet to take the plunge I hope the following will act as a series of checkpoints that you can apply to your own , unique situation . |
| 7 | If there were just two , as in the face-to-face dialogue , then the ethical would preside as the injunction of responsibility for the other . |
| 8 | Consequently the surface integral must vanish as r → ∞ . |
| 9 | If buckets are used to fill the pool , they can be counted and discussions about empty and full will develop as water is transferred from one to the other . |
| 10 | In pastoral sermons , the archbishop continued to oppose civil divorce , claiming that the weak would suffer as a consequence , along with the well-being of society . |
| 11 | Naturalism as an aesthetic may work as a tool of catharsis — we may suffer with those we see suffering — but it does not illuminate methods for action after the catharsis . |
| 12 | The fact that French academies are relatively expensive should come as no surprise : this style was much more developed in eighteenth-century France than elsewhere , namely by Boucher and Greuze . |