Example sentences of "[adj] [modal v] [verb] as a " 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 | But this general rule is hedged about with various provisos , of which the following will serve as a specimen : |
| 3 | These criteria need careful elaboration , but the following will serve as a preliminary illustration of the points : |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |