Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That the original tenant 's obligation to make the deposit is " bound up " with his obligation to perform the tenant 's covenants in the lease is undeniable , but the former is , of course , a once-for-all contractual obligation between the original parties as regards which no question of transfer with the term or with the reversion can arise . |
| 2 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 3 | Our sole object is to find an arrangement which would be so attractive to the majority of Jews as to enable us to strike a bargain for Jewish support . ’ |
| 4 | For about fifteen minutes he did nothing but sit there contentedly , sipping his coffee and watching their restless , flickering scene around him through half-open eyes : the tall , bearded man with a cigar and a fatuous grin who walked up and down at an unvarying even pace like a clockwork soldier , never looking at anybody ; the plump ageing layabout in a Gestapo officers leather coat and dark glasses holding court outside the door of the cafe , trading secrets and scandal with his men friends , assessing the passers-by as thought they were for sale , calling after women and making hour-glass gestures with his hairy gold-ringed hands ; a frail old man bent like an S , with a crazy harmless expression and a transistor radio pressed to his ear walking with the exaggerated urgency of those who have nowhere to go ; slim Africans with leatherwork belts and bangles laid out on a piece of cloth ; a Gypsy child sitting n the cold stone playing the same four note again and again on a cheap concertina ; two foreigners with guitars an a small crowd around them ; a beggar with his shirt pulled down over one shoulder to reveal the stump of an amputated arm ; a pudgy shapeless women with an open suitcase full of cigarette lighters and bootleg cassettes ; the two Nordic girls at the next table , basking half-naked in the weak March sun as though this might be the last time it appeared this year . |
| 5 | A promise to pay a sheriff in consideration of his performing his legal duty , a promise to pay for discharge from illegal arrest , are to be found in the books as promises which the law will not enforce : see the cases cited in paragraph 326 , footnote 2 of Halsbury 's Laws of England ( 4th ed. , 1974 ) , Vol. 9 . |
| 6 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 7 | The investors do not perceive the warranties as providing them with a course of action , but as a way for management to confirm the business plan and the facts of the accountants ' report ; and provide as much information as possible about the business to be purchased . |
| 8 | According to stress therapist Hilary Gray , for many of today 's professional women , such transitional crisis periods as reaching one 's thirties or turning 40 can bring anxiety , doubts and conflicts . |
| 9 | She 'd heard of an opening for a showroom model at one of the better fashion houses on the Via Monte-napoleone ; despite the agency 's insistence on scouting all jobs itself , she had gone around to the house and applied for the position herself , listing International Models as representing her . |
| 10 | The gunpowder either killed the poor man or caused such grievous wounds as to send him into a swoon from which he would never recover . |
| 11 | Lord Lane said it would be unlawful to detain a child ‘ for such period or periods or in such circumstances as to take it outside the realm of reasonable parental discipline ’ . |
| 12 | Clause 1(2) ( b ) defines a mutiny as where two or more prisoners ’ collectively resist , impede or disobey any exercise of lawful authority in the prison in such circumstances as to make their conduct subversive of order in the prison . ’ |
| 13 | This is seen by some judges as usurping their function . |
| 14 | on the same lines as getting your point across and not being afraid to do it |
| 15 | In its annual report of 1938 the Committee stated that ‘ the existing scale of benefits can not be regarded as so fully meeting needs as to make it undesirable to raise them further ’ and continued , ‘ if … the wage system made allowance for dependency , the main objection to further increase in the rates of benefit would be removed ’ ( Quoted in Green , 1938 ) . |
| 16 | Thus Hume does not sharply distinguish between interpreting moral judgements as expressing one 's own feelings , stating one 's own feelings , and suggesting how men in general would feel about a situation if they knew enough . |
| 17 | Or : ‘ Two meals is OK but if there 's a club afterwards , then any more counts as stringing him along . ’ |
| 18 | The case of Doctor Faustus exemplifies how we can not be sure which version of the play was the more common experience of audiences and whether they understood the two versions as offering something markedly different or not . |
| 19 | Copyright protection , however , does not extend to ephemeral things such as skeletal plots for novels or ideas for computer programs unless and until they are recorded in some form or another and , even then , it is the ideas as expressed which are protected , not the underlying concepts . |
| 20 | Crop-protection guns were issued wholesale , the users of which as often wounded elephants as killed them outright , so that the surviving animals became even more dangerous . |
| 21 | Down the bottom there in , number page twenty six it speaks about another modest man who became a role model for me who 's name 's John now a member of the governing body of Jehovah Witnesses and he 's been quoted over the years as saying it 's not so much where you serve , but who you serve that is truly important , can you see that ? |
| 22 | Carmarthen 's street scenes reflect bygone years as do its placenames . |
| 23 | He could not have borne a mirror in the room with him now , for fear of what he might see ; in his heart he knew that it would be unrecognisable , as he failed to recognise the turmoil of his own feelings as having anything to do with the self he had always known . |
| 24 | Perhaps her husband was not such a shit after all , Blanche thought , just a human being who experienced the same tangled skein of feelings as held her then . |
| 25 | Anyone who has attempted to compile machine-readable data either for teaching or research purposes will agree that such an undertaking impinges so greatly on our time and resources as to minimize our interest in providing support for other scholars who might become interested in our data . |
| 26 | The detail of these two Appendices is indeed so full of problems as to make them rather grim reading . |
| 27 | Of the 10% or so that do not measure up , many are as likely to merge with stronger firms as to alter their investment strategies . |
| 28 | There is no doubt that Unionists believed in what they were doing or that they saw the government 's actions as justifying their responses . |
| 29 | I know there 's an attitude at home — men are people but women are only women — but that 's not the same things as putting your women in purdah . ’ |
| 30 | The 5 sins were such things as letting his Bible fall by accident , jumping about for a few minutes on the sabbath , forgetting that it was Sunday , and hesitating to lend his sister a book which she asked him for . ' |