Example sentences of "[prep] [art] [noun sg] as [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Thus , a survey in November 1979 showed that 69 per cent preferred Edward Kennedy as the Democratic candidate for the presidency as compared to 31 per cent for Jimmy Carter .
2 I entirely agree with Richard Harwood that those district societies that put the effort into breaking their society down into local groups , small practitioner groups , commercial membership groups and , for that matter , any other group that seems appropriate , have seen the real benefits from this assistance in the vital area of communication and , perhaps an unseen fact , value for money for the subscription as seen through the eyes of the Institute 's membership .
3 Now the choice was hers — she could stay on in the cottage for the weekend as planned , or she could cut her losses and head for home .
4 Whether you 've been asked to open the discussion or not , you should prepare yourself for the tutorial as follows :
5 It evinces such contempt for the principle as to use language which ignores or denies it , and offers no justification for the departure .
6 They would regard the question of the initial conditions for the universe as belonging to the realm of metaphysics or religion .
7 As a general rule , when the demand for a resource is such that it is allocated for two thirds of the available time , then programs spend twice as long waiting for the resource as using it .
8 Discuss the performance of the business for the period as revealed by the accounts you have prepared , paying particular attention to its cash position and profitability .
9 5.1 This Agreement shall continue for the period as shown in the Schedule
10 Vietnam announced its full support for the declaration as did ASEAN 's Western dialogue partners and .
11 But I think if you went for the figure as proposed by the H B F , you would be going actively against the regeneration statutory which is the erm the government 's policy .
12 Readers can check this result by subtracting Project C's cash flows from Project D's cash flows and solving for the IRR as outlined in the previous paragraph .
13 Eileen Desmond TD and Deputy Murphy , both of the Labour Party , spoke for the project as did Councillor Joe Sherlock of the Workers ' Party .
14 However , the point to notice is how the data seemed ideal for the investigation as conceived : intimate life-histories are central to the project .
15 If the odour persists after best practicable means have been taken and in the opinion of the local authority environmental health department it amounts to a statutory nuisance within s.92(1) of the Public Health Act 1936 , then permission would have to be sought from the Secretary of State for the Environment as required by s.92(2) of that Act , before the local authority could institute summary proceedings under the nuisance provisions of the Public Health Act 1936 .
16 The net loss and net tangible assets for ADS are based on the weighted average number of Ordinary Shares in issue during the year as shown in Note 7 on page 22 .
17 Although the daisy wheel system is fairly universal there are variations such as the thimble as used in the NEC Spinwriter series .
18 Where there is a material difference between the result as disclosed in the profit and loss account and the result on an unmodified historical cost basis , a note of the historical cost profit or loss for the period should be presented .
19 One of the dramatic differences between the world as pictured by M. de St. Croix from Trafalgar Square in 1839 and the one in which PHOTOGRAPHY NOW takes place 150 years later is , precisely , the proliferation of photographically originated signs .
20 The governor 's thing is coming about quite useful tonight because we 've been talking about the law as regards governors and parents ' rights and what you 're supposed to ask parents
21 The subtlety that when Irish people express their antipathy to the British , the real target of their hatred is the English , and that Ayr , the rival plant , is actually in Scotland , where a substantial proportion of the population feels just as strongly about the English as do surrogate Irish nationalists , was quite lost on the protesters across the water .
22 However , we are aware of the concerns that have been expressed about the system as compared with the arrangements in England and Wales , where appeals are made to valuation and community charge tribunals .
23 One of the most fundamental questions which has been posed is whether we can properly speak about the drama as writing .
24 For a start he has to find a receptive female — not always easy with animals as solitary and spread about the forest as orangs .
25 It is the Norah Batty syndrome , if I may be sexist , where far from losing a million people off the register as happened during the last census because of the poll tax , in the next census men will be sent to the shed at the bottom of the garden to keep out of the way .
26 I 'll forget the interest you owe and cross it off the book as paid . ’
27 We may think of the evaluation as having four foci :
28 They were described in French accounts of the discovery as representing ‘ pinguins ’ which is correctly translated into English as ‘ Auk ’ .
29 In summary , the metamorphic gneisses and related rocks give the Outer Hebrides a subdued and undulating landscape , with occasional hilly areas which represent either igneous complexes as in south Harris and eastern South Uist , or ‘ welded ’ gneisses in the vicinity of the thrust as occurs in North Uist .
30 The main problem of the present-day settlor is so to draft the limitations of the settlement as to attract the least amount of income tax and inheritance tax .
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