Example sentences of "as [verb] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have , therefore , to consider why marriages effectively end , as well as why couples will go as far as to go to the courts to legally separate , and what social factors underlie the responses to changes in legislation . |
| 2 | About the su the pr your reported proposal for a supermarket on the M eleven roundabout and also you see the commitment as confined to the officers only . |
| 3 | The research will address theoretical issues relating to the practice of joint consultation , and its role in the processes of job regulation , as well as contributing to the debates on management strategy and contingency theory . |
| 4 | Address trading and other organisations on Trading Standards issues as related to the functions of the Department . |
| 5 | Richard Eden , who translated Peter Martyr 's works , quotes the young Indian as shouting to the Spaniards : |
| 6 | Sue also has a few of her own knitting machines on the premises and makes garments to order as well as to sell to the tourists ! |
| 7 | That definition differs from that contained in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 , as applied to the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 . |
| 8 | Here Gibson is shown attending to clients , whilst to the left of the shop can be seen two painted hatchments of the type offered up on the house of the deceased , with two smaller shields above of painted canvas mounted on black velvet , as applied to the palls of the nobility and others entitled to bear arms . |
| 9 | However , problems have already arisen over the definition of ‘ essential ’ as applied to the halons . |
| 10 | Examples of this kind of analysis as applied to the types of activity are shown below ( Fig. 2.4 ) for : |
| 11 | This led to calls for the reassertion of the values and practices of the Tokugawa period , or rather of those that the ruling élite regarded as according to the needs of post-1868 Japan . |
| 12 | Kelburn , Dean and Culzean Castles have been developed as country parks with visitor centres , and each of them reflects credit on its owners as well as adding to the attractions of the county . |
| 13 | There was the contact with friendly adults , but not so close as to suggest to the children that their real parents were being supplanted — a common resentment in foster homes . |
| 14 | Gustason ( 1983 ) reports progress in reading performance , as measured in a test of syntactic abilities after a period in a programme using Signing Exact English , as compared to the norms for deaf children . |
| 15 | He was still seen as tied to the ranks of the bourgeoisie by an umbilical cord that he had failed to sever . |
| 16 | I need not trouble your Lordships by referring to the authorities cited , since the analogy serves no purpose if one can not identify , as belonging to the plaintiffs , the documents of which production is desired . |
| 17 | Certainly they conceded that these activities were popular in the sense that millions of people availed themselves of them but their argument had been that only in a very limited way can we talk of these activities as belonging to the masses : rather they represented the expropriation and packaging of what had previously been popular forms by middle-class organizations and in most cases by businessmen and entrepreneurs . |
| 18 | So Grice 's point is not that we always adhere to these maxims on a superficial level but rather that , wherever possible , people will interpret what we say as conforming to the maxims on at least some level . |
| 19 | The unfolding of the divine purpose was not , however , identified with the course of human history as known to the inhabitants of Iran . |
| 20 | But those mythic monsters were as dwarves to the waves that inhabit other oceans . |
| 21 | Leicestershire is the only county to account for its distributions from the TCCB on a cash as opposed to an accruals basis . |
| 22 | This is because the repayment of tax is treated as being made in respect of the accounting period in which the surplus ACT arose ( as opposed to the periods in which it was offset ) ( s 825(4) ( a ) ) . |
| 23 | In the end , Colin had to develop a strength of character , of steel , as opposed to the others , who did n't develop . |
| 24 | It is the quality that characterizes biological objects as opposed to the objects of physics . |
| 25 | In language use ( as opposed to the drills of formal language practice ) we almost always have some sort of knowledge about the senders or receivers of the discourse . |
| 26 | Likewise , it was common ground that faulty administration contemplated the procedures by which decisions are made as opposed to the merits of the decisions . |
| 27 | The plan called for the reunification of " Administrative Beirut " ( i.e. central Beirut as opposed to the suburbs ) , the withdrawal of all militias from the city and the integration of Aoun 's troops into Hrawi 's army , commanded by Gen. Emile Lahud . |
| 28 | Their dream is that many business PC users — as opposed to the scientists and engineers who usually buy workstations — will ‘ trade up ’ when they realise just how speedily such machines can crunch numbers . |
| 29 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 30 | His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face . |