Example sentences of "as [prep] [art] [noun sg] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Keith insists that 's no more than any other home the same size , but he 's hoping the new buyer will care as much about the property as about the world 's threatened rain forests . |
| 2 | The explanation is probably the same as for the sector 's use of fixed-term contract workers — that casual workers are the principal form of temporary worker engaged . |
| 3 | As for the Government 's style , Mr Heseltine suggested that much of its tough ‘ rhetoric ’ was empty , because the hostile words did not match the actions . |
| 4 | AS FOR the government 's negotiating strategy , Harkabi forecast that nothing would scare the ‘ extremists ’ like a readiness to talk from the other side . |
| 5 | As for the Government 's position , we are investing £120 million to help the people and economy of north Lanarkshire , including £40 million from this Department . |
| 6 | As for the farmer 's own income increasing , it was found that larger farmers reap better financial benefits from converting more buildings , compared to smaller farmers who just received a one-off cash injection . |
| 7 | As for the party 's electoral system , it is a compromise clumsily put together by that decent man , Terry Duffy , to minimise union power at its most triumphalist and overbearing . |
| 8 | As for the fieldworker 's position vis-à-vis informants , our concern is to account for this ( this can be seen as an extension of the notion of accountability to the data into the fieldwork phase ) and to use it as part of our method of data classification . |
| 9 | The reason for his pleasure , as well as for the handkerchief 's greyness , was that he had washed it himself … and really he had done just as good a job as the dhobi had been doing for the most extravagant prices . |
| 10 | As for the project 's general direction towards RBL and the thematic and investigative pedagogies this entails , the head and library staff shared a strong commitment to such a philosophy . |
| 11 | As for the author 's intentions , what counts is only whether or not he has succeeded in writing poetry , and that too can be discerned by reference to the text alone . |
| 12 | As for the list 's members , who serve terms at the pleasure of the President , many have not been asked back . |
| 13 | As for the industry 's registered dock labour force , the Government made provision for a three year redundancy scheme , jointly financed by the Government and the employer of any dockers who were ‘ surplus to requirements ’ . |
| 14 | Their trip from the airport in a launch ( one of the perks of the Governor , Sir David Wilson ) took them as close as they will be allowed to get this week to a Vietnamese boat people 's detention centre — at Argyle Street , Kowloon — as well as past the harbour 's backdrop of skyscrapers , mammoth neon advertisements , and mountains . |
| 15 | The beloved is not separate , absent , but present , at the moment of the poet 's writing or speaking , as of the beloved 's hearing or reading the poem — as , indeed , of the reader 's reading , now and always : he or she is always there as we read . |
| 16 | However , at the time of the broadcast Iraqi forces were still working to secure complete control of Kuwait City , as well as of the country 's ports and oil terminals . |
| 17 | This clause might well be interpreted as excluding the manufacturer 's liability to the wholesaler under the implied terms as to merchantable quality and fitness for purpose . |
| 18 | In the absence of clear words , however , it will not be interpreted as excluding the manufacturer 's liability to the wholesaler for negligence ( i.e. under the principle in Donoghue v. Stevenson , see paragraph 9–04 above ) . |
| 19 | Governments operate in the world of real time during which many elements can change , as against the economist 's world of rational time and ceteris paribus . |
| 20 | It is suggested that if there is a breach , an employee is under a duty to mitigate the loss and this would probably involve joining the purchaser 's existing pension scheme even if the benefits are not as generous as under the vendor 's scheme . |
| 21 | Then , slowly , as onto the mind 's eye — |
| 22 | If the colouristic range seems limited in places , that may have as much to do with the rather desiccated 30-year-old recording as with the composer 's only part-time virtuoso fingers . |
| 23 | As with the surveyor 's report ( see ( 2 ) above ) it is advisable to define a level of materiality to prevent the purchaser using the results as an excuse not to complete . |
| 24 | One could not doze easily as one had done in Matt Stukely 's day for there was something too insistently personal in this new parson 's efforts to reach them ; yet they had remained stolidly unreached till now when the fervour of his exhortation spoke to them as with an angel 's tongue . |
| 25 | Every hundred metres or so when we met the road zigzagging its six kilometres to the top we turned to the landscape : huge conical mountains with valleys that knit together as neatly as in a child 's drawing . |
| 26 | A slight deviation from the walking stance quickly puts a student into the taekwondo fighting stance , in which the body is slightly inclined to present less of an open target and the fists are held high as in a boxer 's pose . |
| 27 | The strong forces between the particles would correspond to pieces of string that went between other bits of string , as in a spider 's web . |
| 28 | The two are mixed in the gun ( as in an artist 's airbrush ) and , given the correct air temperature , the resulting mist which is squirted out crystallises , falling as snow . |
| 29 | Ezra Pound 's long love affair with England , and his angry and wounded turning against her in 1917 or 1918 , can not of course bulk so large in an American 's sense of him as in an Englishman 's . |
| 30 | Sometimes the definitions can border on the eccentric : the American admiral who commands all his country 's ships , airmen , soldiers and marines in what the pentagon regards as ‘ the Pacific ’ — as in the admiral 's official title CINCPAC , Commander-in-Chief , Pacific — holds sway over an ocean which has its westerly shores oft Mombasa , and is arbitrarily cut off along a line running due south from the border between Mexico and Guatemala . |