Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] [noun] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Already in 1928 he was protesting that his own pronouncements at the time of the Imagist manifesto were tailored to the specific needs of 1914 , and should not be taken as binding fourteen years later . |
| 2 | His decision is now being appealed and Mrs Hamilton was in court yesterday when it was contended that Lord Prosser had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 3 | His decision was appealed and the parents claimed that he had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 4 | Professor Mathias correctly sees the high demand of the war years for cereals as keeping agricultural wages up with prices , but they started from such a low level that in years of scarcity like 1795 and 1801 they could hardly have sustained life . |
| 5 | The fourth stage involves sifting through the data and evaluating it so as to collate and analyse it in such a way as to provide useful information rather than a mass of unrelated facts or figures . |
| 6 | And that was Mrs Sheldon 's side of the story as related forty-one years later after the death of her husband . |
| 7 | What is important is to be aware of the normal condition of your fish to as to detect any problem immediately , and to check , and if necessary remedy water quality as soon as any trouble is spotted . |
| 8 | There are instances where the official syllabus recommends one type of content and emphasis ( e.g. in language skills ) , while the official examination is clearly constructed with the intention of testing different ones ; or cases in which the official aims of education extol the virtues of self-reliance and enquiry-based education , whereas the official syllabus contains an outline of content so rigid and overcrowded as to render any initiative almost impossible to achieve . |
| 9 | As happens many times throughout , and frequently in footnotes , one sentence of Boswell 's from the after-dinner conversation contains the seeds of a novel — even , potentially , a saga : . |
| 10 | I REFER to the comments made by an anonymous smoker who mistakenly tried to justify smokers as paying more tax indirectly due to higher Government levy on cigarettes . |
| 11 | The hole distances are then given but bear no resemblance to the course as opened 18 months later . |
| 12 | For example , in In re Tucker ( R. C. ) ( A Bankrupt ) , Ex parte Tucker ( K. R. ) [ 1990 ] Ch. 148 , where the application of the Ex parte Blain , 12 Ch.D. 522 principle was urged , this court declined to construe the words ‘ any person ’ in section 25 of the Bankruptcy Act 1914 as embracing British subjects wherever they might be , and held that the power given to the court by that section to summon persons before it was even more limited and extended only to persons who were available to be served in England . |
| 13 | ‘ Now we 're looking to encourage our customers to send remittance advices electronically so we can post them straight into the sales ledger , and eventually we 'll ‘ close the loop ’ as regards other documents too . |
| 14 | This is more or less the same as saying that theme normally precedes rheme . |
| 15 | " I started to feel a revulsion against this desultory wandering over all the departments of knowledge ; I wished to force some limitation on myself so as to probe individual subjects more deeply and thoroughly . |
| 16 | Held , allowing the appeal , ( 1 ) ( Lord Mackay of Clashfern L.C. dissenting ) that , subject to any question of Parliamentary privilege , the rule excluding reference to Parliamentary material as an aid to statutory construction should be relaxed so as to permit such reference where ( a ) legislation was ambiguous or obscure or led to absurdity , ( b ) the material relied upon consisted of one or more statements by a minister or other promoter of the Bill together if necessary with such other Parliamentary material as was necessary to understand such statements and their effect and ( c ) the statements relied upon were clear ( post , pp. 1039C , G , 1040B , D–E , 1042C–D , H — 1043A , 1056A–C , 1061E–F , 1063F–G ) . |
| 17 | Christine Brooke-Rose does not go so far as to disavow authorial creativity altogether , but she too sees technology as the possible key to a breakthrough in how we think about the human subject . |
| 18 | Dean Acheson informed various American ambassadors in late April 1949 that the Japanese government had to be given more authority so as to re-establish civilian government properly . |
| 19 | That suggestion is not itself a checkerboard solution : each state would retain a constitutional duty that its own abortion statute be coherent in principle , and the suggestion offers itself as recognizing independent sovereigns rather than speaking for all together . |
| 20 | He was also upset by an article in the American magazine Sports Illustrated , in which he was quoted — legitimately , even if in infrequent unguarded moments — as criticising other players charmlessly . |
| 21 | Strangely we find that its diamond shape was less like the present day Delta with its rigid leading edge spars than the design by George D. Wanner of Dayton as filed 11 months prior in January 1948 , as against November 1948 for Rogallo . |
| 22 | This possibility can only occur if the masses are generally speaking apolitical and acquiescent , or ready to defer to authority ; or if patron — client relations can be pyramided up to the national level so as to bind mass support very firmly and unconditionally to national elites ; or if mass parties with extensive organizational capabilities can be created and continuously sustained by major political leaderships . |
| 23 | Garrison Savannah who almost won the National two years ago appears to have returned to his old form if you take his Gold Cup run on board for he was always in touch before blundering and losing his chance late in the race , but he may not stay the trip as happened two years ago when he was beaten by Seagram . |
| 24 | Mr Grovey likes to appear cool and trendy ( as do most teachers under thirty ) , but for Mr Grovey the attempt at an up-to-date image is ruined by his liking for wearing highly patterned , sleeveless pullovers of the sort seen hanging in charity shops the length and breadth of Britain . |
| 25 | Among these a need for cross-curricular study featured prominently , as did various areas where curricular provision had yet to be developed ( e.g. the tutorial programme , a life-skills ' curriculum , curriculum provision for the able child ) . |
| 26 | There is nothing implausible in the argument that peasants , especially better-off peasants , managed their holdings , and their familial strategies , as adroitly as did some people higher up the social scale . |
| 27 | The validity and application of such exclusion and limitation clauses have raised many difficult problems , as well as prompting statutory intervention principally through UCTA 1977 . |
| 28 | Perhaps echoing the ritual reality of an annual Easter reclothing of the royal retinue , the episode as recounted six months later to Charles 's camp signified his political " resurrection " and the collective cleansing and rededication of his followers . |
| 29 | ( c ) Restrictions on partners ' authority ( See Clauses 6 ( in relation to accounts ) and 18 ( generally ) ) No body of partners will wish any one of its number to have unlimited authority to incur liabilities in their firm name so as to make all members potentially liable even in respect of transactions which form no part of the normal business of the firm . |