Example sentences of "be [adj] as the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The specific policies and rhetoric have been different as the occasion demanded . |
| 2 | Both activities are illegal as the plant is protected under the 1981 Wildlife and Countryside Act . |
| 3 | Short sessions such as these are invaluable as the student is learning from actual patient care , and a wide range of subjects will be drawn together in order to bring about better understanding of this care . |
| 4 | Reliance need not be total as the issue is whether the description is material in influencing the decision to buy . |
| 5 | The normal course of trials is likely to be different as the court will often direct that a witness statement stand as the evidence in chief , or at least part of the evidence in chief , of its maker and , in any event , a witness statement may put to the maker in cross-examination . |
| 6 | The construction must be free from dirt traps ( so any form of framed system with infill panels will not be acceptable as the construction forms dirt traps which can never be effectively cleaned ) . |
| 7 | See also Ginera v. City of Glasgow District Licensing Board , 1982 S.L.T. 136 where an application for Sunday opening in respect of a provisional grant of licence was held to be incompetent as the licence is not in force and only the holder of a public house licence can make application for Sunday opening . |
| 8 | In many cases this would be impossible as the count may hold titles in two or more places ! |
| 9 | It may not be easy as the race gets closer , especially if you have to travel and stay overnight . |
| 10 | However , any contract action against Dynamight would be pointless as the judgment could probably not be enforced . |
| 11 | Security at Enniskillen Courthouse will be tight as the army witnesses , identified only as solders N , M , K and L give evidence into the deaths of the three armed terrorists . |
| 12 | Normally a classified image would be colour-coded as the eye is not capable of distinguishing more than six or seven levels of grey . |
| 13 | The orientation of the rolls will depend on whatever small perturbations happen to be present as the temperature difference is raised . |
| 14 | It was always thought that if an investor ( or purchaser ) completed an agreement knowing that some of the warranties were untrue and that fact had not been disclosed , then he would not be prevented from bringing an action for breach of warranty , though the equitable remedy of rescission for misrepresentation would not be available as the investor could not satisfy the requirement to come to equity with clean hands . |
| 15 | In the future this will be essential as the system moves towards an integrated structure . |
| 16 | Volenti was held to be inapplicable as the doctor could not be said to have agreed to the risk . |
| 17 | We would initially require a payment of £X and further payments might be necessary as the case progresses , as further bills are incurred . |
| 18 | Then someone will call us and they will take a blood sample , and I will be terrified as the needle goes in and I feel that they are draining me , that I have no blood left to give . |
| 19 | She would be silent as the grave this time — give her mind to getting free . |
| 20 | My fears were to be unfounded as the nurse chatted to me and before could stop fantasizing about women in uniform the needle was in and the blood was pumping . |
| 21 | the results are impressive as the steam seals the meat and stops the protein oozing out as it is already setting in the joint . |
| 22 | The views across the Weald from the windows of this coach are impressive as the train trundles towards Horstead Keynes and beyond . |
| 23 | But our hopes and fears are irrelevant as the train rushes on . |
| 24 | Using the quotation for BP options it can be seen that the 220p calls are in-the-money as the security price is 237p . |
| 25 | It is thought that the platelet is necessary for the maintenance of normal vascular integrity in that patients with thrombocytopaenia show a generalised haemorrhagic tendency and bruising when the platelet count falls below about 5 × 10 9 /1 , spontaneous bruising and more severe bleeding being possible as the platelet count falls below 20 × 10 9 /1 . |
| 26 | But they were powerless as the vet broke no law . |
| 27 | Despite that , Allied leaders were optimistic as the year opened . |
| 28 | The dervish whose thoughts were sweet as the sugarcane could not remain perpetually in a state of ecstasy but he obtained from the stillness of the soul a sweetness which is the heirloom of the mystic . |
| 29 | Lamps were burning inside the Swan Inn , but any drinkers still there were quiet as the trio made their way along the winding lane through the village . |
| 30 | These are necessary as the part must finally rotate in both of those planes to maintain its pin centre coincident with that of the arc , described by the constrained rotation of the upper pin centre on PARTC . |