Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One major problem is that if the offence is defined so as to include all touchings to which the victim does not consent , it seems difficult to exclude everyday physical contact with others . |
| 2 | These are the people who are often quoted as enjoying good health to a ripe old age despite smoking , drinking and never taking any exercise . |
| 3 | It was still opposed by Danish environmentalists , who claimed that it would affect the salinity of the Baltic Sea by partially blocking the Öresund , as well as bringing greater pollution to the Copenhagen area through increased traffic flows , but supporters of the project said that it would bring new economic activity to the area . |
| 4 | So the insistence of some employees on cash payment tends to slow down the trend to cheque or transfer payment , and therefore to that wider use of bank accounts which we see as bringing considerable advantages to consumers in money management and cheaper credit availability . |
| 5 | The suggestion offered earlier in this chapter was that pre-exposure to a stimulus , as well as allowing certain associations to be formed , might also result in a loss of associability . |
| 6 | The result is a lyrical prose particularly effective when it serves to embody a singing climax at strategic points — a not unsurprising tactical manoeuvre on the part of a writer trying to intimate the reality of a mystical experience which he expresses as transposing everyday speech to song . |
| 7 | The second common motivation is the desire to increase the use of the stock — either by improving its appearance , so as to attract more users to the library , and/or by providing easier access to elements of the stock which are worthwhile , by removing the dead wood . |
| 8 | If 1100 cc models are selling well but 1300 cc models are not , it may be in the seller 's interests to reduce the differential so as to attract more buyers to the 1300 cc models . |
| 9 | In Italy , where tougher immigration legislation laws had been approved in 1990 [ see p. 37507-08 ] , the government sought to repatriate thousands of Albanian refugees during 1991 as well as to provide economic assistance to Albania to reduce the influx [ see p. 38105-06 ; 38400 ] . |
| 10 | The core question of the case , as far as this paper is concerned , was , whether the Defendants had failed to comply ‘ with the statutory requirements and whether the guidelines are reasonable or sufficiently clear as to provide adequate guidance to personnel employed by the Defendants in their maintenance and preservation of federal records ? |
| 11 | Be so good now as to march these miscreants to Mutton House . |
| 12 | ‘ … left to itself the market will function in such a way as to cause great harm to the interests of young people , companies and taxpayers alike . ’ |
| 13 | Dr Williams is quoted ( 3 October ) as favouring mandatory requests to the relatives of all suitable donors . |
| 14 | In such circumstances , it seemed surprising that the Report should recommend the repeal of the Obscene Publications Act and consequent decriminalisation of all forms of publication other than those narrowly defined as causing actual harm to performers , whilst urging for films , and films alone , the continuation of an administrative system of prior restraint . |
| 15 | The breakdown of the control apparatus is widely perceived as liberating managers to pursue economically sub-optimal goals , and as causing insufficient pressure to be imposed to promote managerial vigour and to ensure the competence of the management team . |
| 16 | As well as causing widespread damage to the fixtures and fittings of Butlin 's Somerset World where they were based they spread out over the local towns and villages , generally hooting their way around , leaving considerable wreckage in their wake . |
| 17 | Relations between the two countries were criticized by Iranian hardliners , however , with former Interior Minister Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Mohtashemi being quoted in a report in Le Monde of June 7 as expressing strong opposition to the Saudi regime . |
| 18 | RIGHT Wolves live in packs , and howling serves to keep pack members in touch with each other , as well as alerting other packs to their presence . |
| 19 | The fact that the elderly parents acted reasonably and did nothing wrong and yet entered into an agreement , the ramifications of which they did not appreciate , did not affect the creditor so as to afford equitable relief to the parents . |
| 20 | The previous pack contained the full text of the Multi-National Legal Practice Rules 1991 , which made detailed amendments to the rules governing solicitors , largely so as to apply those rules to registered foreign lawyers practising in partnership with solicitors in England and Wales , where appropriate with special provisions . |
| 21 | In 1990 they took the opportunity to rebuild them as well as allocating extra money to services such as education in the wake of legislative changes . |
| 22 | I lay with my limbs stretched out as stiff as though rigor mortis had set in , and imitated a corpse so as to give greater reality to the enquiry . |
| 23 | This would mean an amendment of Further Education Grant Regulations ‘ so as to give less prominence to the length of course as compared with other and equally important criteria ’ such as the quality of teaching and the amount of written work done by students ( Recommendation 10 ) . |
| 24 | The Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit , reconsidering Re Anschuetz on remand from the Supreme Court in the light of Aérospatiale , declined to re-interpret the Aérospatiale decision as requiring first resort to the Convention or as sanctioning the use of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis . |
| 25 | NAB has decided that the 1983–4 pool should be distributed so as to accord equal treatment to the polytechnics and the colleges of higher education . |
| 26 | Antislavery thus had a further institutional base but it was thereby also vulnerable as regards united action to the outbreak of warfare amongst religious parties . |
| 27 | At the same time as giving such notice to the Proposing Transferor , the Company shall offer the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice to the Members ( other than the Proposing Transferor ) for purchase at the Prescribed Price on terms that in case of competition the Shares so offered shall be sold to the Members accepting the offer in proportion ( as nearly as may be , and without increasing the number sold to any Member beyond the number applied for by him ) to their existing holdings of Shares . |
| 28 | At the same time as giving such notice to the Proposing Transferor , the Company shall offer the Shares comprised in the Transfer Notice to the Members ( other than the Proposing Transferor ) for purchase at the Prescribed Price on terms that in case of competition the Shares so offered shall be sold to the Members accepting the offer in proportion ( as nearly as may be , and without increasing the number sold to any Member beyond the number applied for by him ) to their existing holdings of Shares . |
| 29 | His visit ended in controversy when a group of senior Palestinians cancelled a meeting with Hurd on Oct. 17 , after Israeli journalists had reported him as giving private assurances to Israeli politicians that he did not favour the creation of a Palestinian state . |
| 30 | The ‘ sufficient interest ’ test as interpreted in the Fleet Street Casuals case can be seen as giving partial effect to such an argument . |