Example sentences of "[noun] as [verb] [pron] [art] " 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 | These ‘ id-impulses ’ may be either for ‘ perverse ’ sexual acts which sometimes can not even be admitted to consciousness as acts which the person desires , or they may be impulses of sadism and destructiveness . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ‘ I suborned Aubrey Rivington into so far forgetting his professional integrity as to give me an illicit copy of that photograph . |
| 5 | The damages should be assessed as such sums as represented what a judge or registrar in the Family Division would have ordered the husband to pay or transfer under the provisions of section 25 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 . |
| 6 | I see this marvellous mechanism as giving us the certainty of immortality , for the impact of our thoughts and personality becomes imprinted in the brains of other men and they will continue in the minds of future generations . |
| 7 | The Training Trust are running a five-year staff training programme in Romanian orphanages , and see this competition as giving everyone an opportunity to develop their artistic talents , and to raise funds for needy youngsters . |
| 8 | Thus , while a Luxembourger , an Irishman , a Dutchman or a Belgian may see a European superstate as giving them a much larger stage on which to perform and one that would cost them nothing in sovereignty since what they have is already so diluted , to us it would mean the end of that independence which has allowed us to play a unique and continuing role in world affairs and to have this Gracious Speech setting out our parliamentary programme . |
| 9 | When there is a stay or a suspension of execution , he can not rely on the order for possession as giving him a right to possession . |
| 10 | Sometimes such problems are tackled by putting the students to work in twos and threes , so that good readers can help the slower ones ; in the case of fairly lengthy work-cards , where more explanation is given , it is also helpful to record the text on a cassette , which the slower reader can listen to with the words before him , increasing his familiarity with the written word at the same time as giving him the information that he needs . |