Example sentences of "as [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And then to withhold one 's vote as with almost a matter of habit and routine , that can not be in the best interests of the Conservative party . |
| 2 | As to where a company resides which may be relevant for some purposes , a company or corporation resides where it carries on business and it can reside in more places than one ( Davies v British Geon Ltd [ 1956 ] 3 All ER 389 ) . |
| 3 | The question remains , however , as to when a potency level is actually reached and how many succussions are needed to reach it and also whether different dilution factors need different amounts . |
| 4 | The decision as to when an odour will amount to an actionable nuisance at law depends on the whole of the circumstances of the case in question . |
| 5 | Given the vulnerability of the floating charge the question arises as to why a creditor should bother to obtain one . |
| 6 | These firms should be challenged as to why a replacement is necessary . |
| 7 | Intellectual honesty may well require a better explanation as to why an act is unreasonable than that which has been provided by the courts using traditional techniques of review . |
| 8 | Although I consider that at the relevant time Lautro 's Rules , and thus its procedure , were defective in the respects I have outlined , for the reasons I have given I conclude that Lautro were not required by law to afford to Winchester the opportunity to make representations as to why an intervention notice should not be served before deciding whether or not to serve such a notice . |
| 9 | That is the definition as to why an application should be called in . |
| 10 | The overall situation is unsatisfactory and it is impossible to give precise guidance as to how a firm can resolve mismatches between fiduciary and regulatory law , other than by always complying with the more onerous obligation where the inconsistency between fiduciary and regulatory law is not direct . |
| 11 | Questions were asked of the Home Office as to how a man with a 30-year record in organised crime could be given such a low security classification . |
| 12 | However , not only is there no predictability as to how a case will be categorised , there is also no ex post rationality that can be achieved by juxtaposing a series of cases and asking why one case went one way and another was decided differently . |
| 13 | In the case of orthography it is only in comparatively recent times that spelling has been standardised into ‘ correct ’ forms , it being , in former centuries , very much at the whim of the writer as to how a word was spelt , and it was not unusual for several styles — ‘ king ’ , ‘ kyng ’ , ‘ kynge ’ are examples — to be used in the same document , or even sentence . |
| 14 | There seemed to be no consideration given as to how a management strategy would serve the processes desired , little attempt to anticipate possible outcomes or to arrange for specific progress points when reviews could be undertaken , nor to establish criteria against which a programme 's effectiveness would ultimately be evaluated . |
| 15 | But he found little guidance in Scripture as to how a subject or bishop should behave when his sovereign was determined to undo the Reformation . |
| 16 | In the light of this discussion I offer some indications as to how a strategy of reading might be applied to the study of racist discourses , and invite readers to try out this approach on the two study texts , not in order to produce ‘ the right answer ’ but to compare what is gained and what lost in detail and depth of understanding by applying this kind of model compared to the others . |
| 17 | It would be a mistake to follow early modern Europe in the importance it attached to titles ; but the emergence of a more clearly defined diplomatic hierarchy had some significance , both as cause and result , for the parallel emergence of diplomacy as at least a kind of profession . |
| 18 | On this basis Polaris , and even Trident , could be retained as at least a bargaining counter . |
| 19 | This may be a form of habituation , but it is very long-lasting and thus can reasonably be regarded as at least a form of non-associative learning . |