Example sentences of "as [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He saw the whole machinery of government as keenly attuned to public opinion because the character of the government depended on the results of the last general election ; because there must be an election at least every 5 years ; and because the electors had a genuinely free choice between candidates putting forward different policies . |
| 2 | This contains an unfortunate value judgement , not just upon the Christianity that precedes the reference , but on the whole concept of locality as somehow opposed to cosmopolitanism . |
| 3 | Held ( 1 ) that the public interest in preserving confidentiality underlying the particular implied undertaking by B. added little if anything to the public interest which gave rise to the basic claim of public interest immunity attaching to the authority 's documents ; so that , if that immunity ought properly to be overridden in the light of countervailing public interest arising , that countervailing interest would also outweigh such limited value as still attached to B. 's implied undertaking ( post , pp. 926H — 927A ) . |
| 4 | They have been considered as directly related to cephalaspids . |
| 5 | I might add that Filmer 's notion of dominion as originally granted to Adam included both ownership of property and authority over men and here Filmer was trading on erm erm the feudal tradition of erm property erm erm erm dominion erm entails that if you have property rights in a certain tract of territory you also have political authority over the people inhabiting that or that territory you know , think of a straightforward standard lord of the manor and his service you know , he has property rights in the territory , he also has authority over erm the individuals who live off that territory . |
| 6 | Although dialogue can be deftly used in scenes within the French and Anglo-Norman fabliaux , none of those fabliaux as a whole seems as well suited to performance as this . |
| 7 | His harrowing journey of realisation , acceptance , communication ( through head-tapped morse code ) and an eventual blow-job from a sympathetic nurse is as strong an anti-war statement as yet committed to celluloid . |
| 8 | The idea , as subsequently explained to Preston , who was naturally curious , was to test its effect on steel deck planks . |
| 9 | He described his company 's fortunes as inextricably tied to Bond and the fate of the group 's brewing arm , Bond Brewing . |