Example sentences of "[adj] as to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Would I be so foolish as to blaspheme ? |
| 2 | An objective for a partnership of ‘ bringing industry and education closer together ’ is worse than useless , it is dangerously vague as to meaning and intention . |
| 3 | 13.2.2.2 such consent shall not otherwise be unreasonably restrictive as to content , and |
| 4 | Given these qualifications , broad categories of value are locative — names derived from place-names or topographical features ; of relationship — names of fathers or mothers , with additional syllables , pet names , font names and diminutives ; occupational and social status — indications of trade , calling or office , carried down the centuries , often in mutilated or garbled form ; nicknames — tags and sobriquets which were sufficiently distinctive , felicitous and pronounceable as to stand the test of time . |
| 5 | 61 is instructive as to date . |
| 6 | And while I am not so naive as to thing that they have the time or the motivation to sample every title on the Whitbread short list , a good number of these men think they ought to . |
| 7 | As a textile man I do n't mind woolliness too much but I do object to vagueness because this motion is so vague that it can mean as much as you want it to mean while , at the same time , it says to little as to leave an escape route for it 's supporters . |
| 8 | This plant is very easy to grow , as it is most undemanding as to tank conditions . |
| 9 | We should refuse to be ‘ good sports ’ and to ‘ play the game ’ when the deck is so stacked against us by a baroque system of government so ludicrous and infantile as to beggar description . |
| 10 | That is , the scheming as to choice of materials , designs and technique is all done ahead of the process itself . |
| 11 | • Madonna 's always believed in the importance of underwear — even going to far as to exhibit it outside her clothing . |
| 12 | Obedient as to death a dead thing . |
| 13 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee , which found much of the English law of manslaughter unsupportable , argued that there is a need for a homicide offence beneath murder to encompass those who cause death when reckless as to death or serious injury . |
| 14 | Here the defendant has been reckless as to consent and should again be guilty of the offence . |
| 15 | I was a little anxious as to payment , which would have been only a few coppers except we had none . |
| 16 | Apparently uncertain as to camera angles , Witchell and the others frequently gave the impression of having spotted a lesbian stalking across the floor . |
| 17 | The US State Department was equally uncertain as to policy . |
| 18 | A formal concept of ‘ good ’ would be wholly indeterminate as to content such that anything , irrespective of its impact upon human welfare , could be characterized as ‘ good ’ . |
| 19 | In view of this irksome journey to Keswick , not surprisingly , regard was given to the possibility of setting up smelt houses at Coniston : " … if the Mynes hereafter should hereafter prove so rich as to countervale the charges of erecting any worke houses , there is more there about but water sufficient to make some competent buildings and good store both a wood & peets at more easy rates than at Keswick if the said wood may be preserved for those uses … " |
| 20 | The appellant did not attend on the return date , but the justices were satisfied as to service and adjourned until May 16 ; the appellant was notified by recorded delivery . |
| 21 | The subsection says that the board " may " transfer , but this has been interpreted as meaning shall transfer , if they are satisfied as to fitness . |