Example sentences of "as [verb] in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As foreseen in last year 's Annual Report , competitive quotations were sought , and a contract let , for plant operation and maintenance of the Library 's buildings for three years from 1991–92 . |
| 2 | Basil 's home as recalled in some memories of childhood by his sister Janet Muriel Livingstone " who was born in 1902 |
| 3 | ( a ) Retirement and expulsion As explained in earlier chapters of this book , where no express provision is contained in a partnership agreement or satisfactory arrangements can not be agreed to meet the particular circumstances of the partner concerned , the Partnership Act only offers dissolution as the answer to what to do with a partner whose continued presence in the firm is unwanted by his co-partners . |
| 4 | On the F-Plan it is even less possible because if you are consuming 1,000 calories a day in the form of fibre-rich meals a percentage of those calories is not digested , as explained in previous chapters . |
| 5 | German , as taught in British schools , is of the correct variety . |
| 6 | Self-control , obedience , the recognition of authority , and , later , respect for elders are all the outcome of the first year 's training , as emphasized in preceding chapters . |
| 7 | Many thousands of pagans were baptised and Charles himself is recorded as assisting in mass baptism in the rivers Elbe and Ocker in 780 . |
| 8 | Since it was of relatively minor importance to whom the words for setting up a trust were addressed , it was possible to conceive of the trust as inhering in certain property in the estate , and therefore of the recipient of that property as automatically in the position of trustee for the intended beneficiary . |
| 9 | I accept the offer of the hon. Member for Aberdeen , North ( Mr. Hughes ) as given in good faith , but there are 646 hon. Members — I exclude you , Madam Deputy Speaker , and your colleagues for this purpose — and we can not necessarily rely on them all to show such restraint and singlemindedness as the hon. Gentleman . |
| 10 | All of the references given above come from what is called the Priestly strand ( ‘ P ’ ) and as such they are to be dated to around the time of the Jews ' exile to Babylon in the sixth century BC — that is , according to the still widely accepted dating of this biblical strand within the source-critical school of thought ( though it must also be said that my own arguments as developed in this essay and elsewhere independently point to the exile as the time when these blood concerns and rituals would first have emerged ) . |
| 11 | Originally he thought of his main audience as consisting in enlightened rulers who happened to have power and who with sufficient for themselves already , sought their main further pleasure in seeking the happiness of their subjects . |
| 12 | Behaviour which lies outside ( 1 ) and ( 2 ) , and to which in addition there may be strong personal disinclination : e.g. homosexuality as regarded in enlightened circles . |
| 13 | They have , in other words , been gestures in the direction of popular consultation rather than anything more substantial , with governments often declining to accept their outcome as binding in any case . |
| 14 | As reported in late February , the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) had suspended a US$230,000,000 payment due for disbursement that month . |
| 15 | For example , Ford and Poret ( 1990 ) compare actual investment expenditures with investment intentions as reported in various surveys . |
| 16 | As reported in other studies , there was a predominance of intestinal type tumours associated with chronic inflammation in both time periods studied . |
| 17 | In addition , the prevalence of HLA-B8 and DR3 was similar in the two groups although not as high as reported in previous studies of primary sclerosing cholangitis . |
| 18 | As reported in some editions of The Independent last week , the Arts Council leaflet aimed at this week 's Conservative Party conference differs starkly from the one handed out to Labour delegates in Brighton last week . |
| 19 | In 1989 the rate of prisoners per 100,000 inhabitants was 422 , considerably in excess , as reported in this volume , of the rates for South Africa ( 373 ) and Poland ( 177 ) . |
| 20 | As reported in last year 's Annual Report , the most serious factor in relation to purchasing for 1989–90 , owing to Government 's failure to meet the cost of nationally-negotiated pay awards over recent years , was the need to divert purchasing funds to pay essential salary costs during the year , thereby causing substantial reductions in the purchases of printed books of all periods , as well as manuscripts , maps and music . |
| 21 | Such is the interest in his John Major commemorative mug ( as reported in last week 's column ) that Peter Jones , the Wakefield china magnate , is considering bringing out one of Edward Heath , to mark his Garter knighthood . |
| 22 | As reported in last week 's Herald and Post , results of the tests showed that the creatures present in the water sample were living , but were harmless to humans . |
| 23 | As reported in last week 's Sunday Life , James Rusbridger , a retired senior official in the counter espionage agency MI6 and cousin of spy-catcher Peter Wright , claimed it was ‘ quite common practice ’ for MI5 officers to trawl through ballot papers after elections in Northern Ireland . |
| 24 | The resignation follows a government decision to back a Scottish landowner 's amendment to the Scottish National Heritage Bill ( as reported in last month 's issue of Outdoor Action . |
| 25 | THE New Hemlington Pastoral Centre benefitted from the recent Annual Charity Social , as reported in last month 's ‘ Voice ’ . |
| 26 | It also appears to be a cause of traveller 's diarrhoea in early childhood , as reported in older children and adults , and to be associated with chronic diarrhoea in such circumstances . |
| 27 | The original metric functions , as considered in previous chapters , are now given by ( 11.20 ) |
| 28 | Between 1979 and 1983 this region experienced the highest level of energy consumption growth of all among the Third World regions as considered in this study ( Latin America , Africa , South East Asia , Middle East ) and between 1983 and 2000 the level of increase will be exceeded only by South East Asia . |
| 29 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 30 | It worries me that turning a blind eye to the deliberate starvation of these patients is portrayed as contributing in some way to the high ethical standards of the nursing profession . ’ |