Example sentences of "as [verb] [det] [noun] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Articles also permitted the Board to delegate any of the powers vested in it to a committee and defined ‘ the Board ’ so as to include any committee authorised by the Board to act on its behalf . |
| 2 | To satisfy the US Senate article 5 was so phrased as to enable each state to respond to aggression only with " such action as it deems necessary , including the use of armed force " . |
| 3 | In the more commonly understood sense they have been strengthened , because they have been changed so as to obtain more convictions relating to well-publicised and hard-lobbied issues . |
| 4 | ‘ Nothing in this Act shall be construed as enabling any court to make an order that is binding on the Crown or on any person in his capacity as an officer or servant of the Crown . |
| 5 | For example , an ex gratia payment is not automatically treated as meeting any liability stemming from the basic award . |
| 6 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 7 | Jesus is portrayed as violating many taboos relating to women . |
| 8 | And see s.24(3) : [ n ] o goods shall be regarded as having continued to be stolen after they have been returned to the person from whom they were stolen or to other lawful possession or custody or after that person and any other person claiming through him have otherwise ceased as regards these goods to have any right to restitution in respect of the theft . |
| 9 | This will not , however , be achieved as long as IT is regarded as the province of mathematics , science and technology in the curriculum , and English — or other language — teachers are seen as having little part to play . |
| 10 | Instead an elder ( like any human ) is understood as having enough power to act in a way that makes some difference to what happens . |
| 11 | They interpreted this finding as showing that associability lost by the stimulus during the first stage of training could outweigh the transfer deriving from the fact that both stage of the study involved inhibitory learning . |
| 12 | In the circumstances factory gate prices , which could be interpreted as showing that demand had hardly relaxed , and input prices which underlined the inflationary danger posed by a weaker pound deepened the gloom Yet it was mainly the timing , not the policy , which was to blame . |
| 13 | Gerald Vaughan , the health minister , simply reiterated in October 1981 that there is no clear evidence to link unemployment and ill health , and summarised the results of a DHSS study as showing that unemployment has different effects on different families ( to the chagrin of the researcher involved , who argued that his findings showed that the unemployed were more likely to suffer from physical , and psychological , ill health , unless they worked in hazardous occupations . |
| 14 | They do some quite remarkably good booklets so do n't rip it off by the heading and er nobody regards themselves as aged these days do they ? |
| 15 | Nor could it be said that the British welfare system identified , or even defined , let alone assisted , the genuinely needy groups as effectively as did some systems prevailing elsewhere . |
| 16 | They should consider their prime responsibility as making all efforts to export the revolution ’ . |
| 17 | If the Greeks do not get their debt under control — and that , be it repeated , means getting a 7%-of-GDP surplus on the ordinary part of their budget , so as to have enough money left over to pay what is due on the debt — they will one day find they can not sell the bonds that keep the debt going . |
| 18 | The Circular points out that the decision should not be taken as sanctioning such advice given to such girls by teachers . |
| 19 | It may see this as meaning that reason has less hope of producing convergence in ethics than on factual matters . |
| 20 | Let us for the moment take it as established that dog has a general sense , denoting the whole species , irrespective of sex . |
| 21 | The recent Report of the Royal Commission on Environmental Pollution even goes so far as to recommend that straw burning should be banned in five years time . |