Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 2 | It is intended to provide household water to 30 million people , and irrigate crops which could feed 20 million , as well as generating large quantities of hydro-electric power . |
| 3 | The civil service , the House of Lords , the Monarch , the judges , the police , the military , the security services , the Bank of England , a host of Quangos , and even the cabinet and the absolute premiership , are all seen as enjoying varying degrees of political power without any balancing responsibility to hold them in check — as we ourselves will suggest in Chapter 5 . |
| 4 | Forms of government intervention in other societies are seen by Marxists as reflecting varying degrees of class forces . |
| 5 | How can we understand Iranian foreign policy without seeing it as reflecting Islamic notions of morality ? |
| 6 | Even categories such as time and number , which many of us take as reflecting basic aspects of experience , are only optionally indicated in some Asian languages such as Chinese and Vietnamese . |
| 7 | The Luxembourg session was represented as a " political agreement " and the subsequent Salzburg disagreement as reflecting different interpretations of how this was to be translated into concrete terms ; " on some outstanding questions the respective positions were converging , while on others further work remained necessary " . |
| 8 | In typical elitist manner Schumpeter describes these notions as both unrealistic and dangerous ; but a major difference from classical elite theorists is that Schumpeter wants to redefine democracy so as to preserve some recognition of the fact of popular participation and to take account of the inevitably limited nature of this participation . |
| 9 | Of the 106 authorities who responded and could be used for analysis , seventy-eight were described as using some form of standardised intelligence test and nearly all were using examination procedures to measure attainment in English and arithmetic , though the variety of standard , ‘ tried out ’ and internal tests was wider . |
| 10 | However , if collocations like ’ weak tea ’ and ’ powerful car ’ are so numerous as to evade any method of acquisition other than years of learning , how then should a machine-readable collocation dictionary be compiled ? |
| 11 | They , as became self-conscious representatives of the Cohen tradition — austere , genteel , ‘ polished ’ — were not taken to the spontaneous expressions of liveliness which Masha 's Judaism exhibited . |
| 12 | It regarded it as undermining the peace process , as making assumptions about the possibility of breach by Egypt , and as allowing unilateral arbitration of breach by the United States . |
| 13 | Furthermore , while these " blankouts " may distress other people , the primary sufferer may find them confusing but may go so far in denial as to accuse other people of having faulty memory for the things said or done while he or she was in a " blankout " . |
| 14 | Infusion of caerulein has also been reported to cause divergent changes in pancreatic enzyme synthesis under certain conditions , as has intraduodenal administration of oleic acid . |
| 15 | Given its origins , the NUR saw itself as an industrial union ; originally it organized most groups of BR workers , and it continues to be recognized by BR as representing all grades of staff other than management . |
| 16 | Given that the two parties were perceived as representing different poles of the political spectrum , government policy would lurch from being right of the political center under one adminstration to being left of center under another . |
| 17 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 18 | On the other hand , if the buyer asks for an article by its trade or brand name and does so in such a way as to exclude any discussion of its suitability , then he is not relying on the seller 's skill or judgment , Baldry v. Marshall ( 1924 C.A. ) . |
| 19 | Against this background the Commission has proposed specific measures to make road transport more expensive , primarily by increasing excise duty on fuel , so as to encourage wider use of rail and shipping . |
| 20 | Will my hon. Friend speak to our right hon. Friend the Chancellor about introducing financial incentives similar to those for unleaded fuel so as to encourage speedier acceptance of a lower-sulphur fuel ? |
| 21 | For a songwriter , the main advantages of owning a publishing company are usually regarded as keeping total control of , and earning 100 per cent of the income generated by , his or her songs . |
| 22 | The term of office of the commissioners was to be six years : it would be staggered , with one-third retiring every two years , so as to provide some degree of continuity and collective memory . |
| 23 | Descriptivists are seen as advocating ‘ anything goes ’ , and as condemning all forms of linguistic correction . |
| 24 | Indeed it is hardly too much to speak of jade and gold as embodying distinct standards of value . |
| 25 | As well as implying this criticism of classical economy , Marx 's attitude suggests a new approach to the construction of a social theory . |
| 26 | Once arrived , the guests found themselves , for most of the time at least , caught up in a ritual of entertainment which was so smoothly organized as to be unnoticeable and , given the Empress 's indefatigable energy , so tiring as to eliminate any possibility of boredom . |
| 27 | You may also have a manager who organizes the arrangements for gigs as well as developing new areas of work like contracts for recording , publishing , with an agency or for merchandising . |
| 28 | In the evening there was an example of a shift in emphasis that was so pronounced as to cause that part of the day to become an event in its own right . |
| 29 | In a report presented to the Polish parliament , the State Inspectorate for Environmental Protection has stated that preparations are in hand to close down 100 out of the 800 industrial plants which were identified as causing dangerous levels of pollution . |
| 30 | The Code has been recognised by the courts as establishing objective standards of fairness towards minority shareholders which they will take into account when exercising their own discretion under , for example , CA 1985 , s430C or s459 . |