Example sentences of "as [vb pp] to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 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 .
2 Address trading and other organisations on Trading Standards issues as related to the functions of the Department .
3 That definition differs from that contained in section 735 of the Companies Act 1985 , as applied to the provisions of the Insolvency Act 1986 .
4 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 .
5 However , problems have already arisen over the definition of ‘ essential ’ as applied to the halons .
6 Examples of this kind of analysis as applied to the types of activity are shown below ( Fig. 2.4 ) for :
7 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 .
8 He was still seen as tied to the ranks of the bourgeoisie by an umbilical cord that he had failed to sever .
9 The unfolding of the divine purpose was not , however , identified with the course of human history as known to the inhabitants of Iran .
10 Leicestershire is the only county to account for its distributions from the TCCB on a cash as opposed to an accruals basis .
11 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 ) ) .
12 In the end , Colin had to develop a strength of character , of steel , as opposed to the others , who did n't develop .
13 It is the quality that characterizes biological objects as opposed to the objects of physics .
14 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 .
15 Likewise , it was common ground that faulty administration contemplated the procedures by which decisions are made as opposed to the merits of the decisions .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
20 yeah I 'd give them are , I 'd put my money with you people as opposed to the companies .
21 The delicious pork and goose rillettes and rillons of Western France are also close relations of English potted meats — in other words cooked and shredded or pounded meat packed into pots after cooking , as opposed to the pâtés and terrines which are made from raw ingredients cooked directly in the pots or the crust in which they are to be stored and served .
22 So the work remains , in some sense , circular : but what is more important to our understanding of the poem , as opposed to the misadventures of the poet , is that there has also been a change of genre .
23 There was a tremendous release of tension , particularly for the people , the women who had been permanent workers as opposed to the students .
24 An attempt to identify those social properties which pertain to objects as artefacts , for example , as opposed to the properties of words as discovered by linguists , or dreams as discovered by psychologists , can only be achieved through a balance between two procedures .
25 Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred .
26 The only heavy defeat was at Newington , who were playing their ninth match in six weeks , as opposed to the tourists , who were commencing their season .
27 First , we will need to consider the relative merits of selling the assets of the business as opposed to the shares .
28 The debate which followed Hartog 's motion took the form of a " heated controversy " over the relative merits of grammar , philology , and literary detail as opposed to the contents of great works .
29 I must remind her that , to judge by the performance of the last Labour Government as opposed to the promises of the present Labour Opposition , Londoners can look forward only to cuts in the investment required .
30 Marvell is so much taken with the love he has of nature he even proposes to cut out the names of the trees in their own bark , as opposed to the names of lovers .
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