Example sentences of "as [verb] any [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ? |
| 2 | 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. ) . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Asked about Bosnia , Mr Major said he did not regard the US airdrops as presenting any danger of retaliation against British troops on the ground in the former Yugoslavia . |
| 5 | ‘ so far as is reasonably practicable as regards any place of work under the employer 's control , the maintenance of it in a condition that is safe and without risks to health and the provision and maintenance of means of access to and egress from it that are safe and without such risks . ’ |
| 6 | It would be unfortunate if his findings of facts were regarded as giving any indication of how other such cases should be approached . |
| 7 | While in ( 16b ) the speaker is not represented as having any kind of expectations at all , in ( 16a ) he is : the sentence with the infinitive means that the speaker was hoping for someone to come to his assistance even before this happened . |
| 8 | This account , in spite of beginning with the faculties of the knowing subject , leaves no room for an account of the individual as creative — as having any autonomy of agency . |
| 9 | The radical agenda runs something like this : Labour ought to begin talks with the Liberal Democrats on PR ; negotiate electoral pacts with that party , so that they can achieve a majority in 1996 , not just in order to form a government , but to introduce PR ; abandon links with the trade unions , eschew egalitarian tax policies , perhaps even abandon the name ‘ Labour ’ , so as to disavow any claim of being a party that primarily represents a working class that , in self-identification , is constantly dwindling . |
| 10 | On the other hand , public authorities do not usually commit illegal acts deliberately , and if an atmosphere of opinion were created in which compensation for illegality were seen as being simply compensation for loss and not as carrying any stigma of fault or as being designed to perform the function of deterring illegal conduct , public authorities might be able to put the chance of an award out of their mind in deciding the applicant 's case the second time round . |
| 11 | The management of the Company and the allotment , issue , holding , transfer and transmission of all shares in the capital of the Company shall be subject to the Rules and nothing in the regulations of the Company shall be construed as authorising any breach of the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of the Rules or Section 9 of the AJA . |
| 12 | The management of the Company and the allotment , issue , holding , transfer and transmission of all shares in the capital of the Company shall be subject to the Rules and nothing in the regulations of the Company shall be construed as authorising any breach of the Rules or any rules , principles or requirements of conduct applicable to recognised bodies by virtue of the Rules or Section 9 of the AJA . |
| 13 | Or again as Jevons says ‘ Originally a market was a public place in a town where provisions and other objects were exposed for sale ; but the word has been generalized , so as to mean any body of persons who are in intimate business relations and carry on extensive transactions in any commodity . |