Example sentences of "as [vb pp] [prep] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Certainly neither the KGB nor the GRU are going to stop spying , for that would leave them as exposed to criticism as if the CIA suddenly stopped spying on Russia . |
| 2 | But in reality small firms are often backwards in terms of resources , capital and innovation , as well as limited in terms of job numbers . |
| 3 | ( b ) a recognised body which is an unlimited company shall retain its status as an unlimited company , save where the Council consents to the body being re-registered as limited by shares under the Companies Act 1985 ; |
| 4 | These changes can be seen as elements of a programme intended to open up more aspects of public sector provision to the market and to undermine the powers of state bureaucracy , particularly as highlighted by exponents of ‘ public choice theory ’ . |
| 5 | Additional disclosure would also be necessary if , as explained in relation to exclusion clauses , the relationship between customer and agent evolved over time imparting higher levels of fiduciary duties . |
| 6 | He talks of himself as ‘ split ’ , and as implicated in splits of a wider incidence . |
| 7 | In the ( predominantly Catholic ) US Pacific territory of Guam , the island 's Legislature passed a highly restrictive anti-abortion law on March 9 , which explicitly challenged a woman 's constitutional right to abortion as recognized by Roe v. Wade . |
| 8 | In a political and administrative system as riddled with tradition as the British , the old model could , and probably will , be restored in the few minutes it takes a new prime minister to travel from Buckingham Palace to Downing Street . |
| 9 | He saw it as filled with lines of force , whose arrangements permitted or prohibited the passage of an electric current ; this was itself force rather than any material ‘ juice ’ . |
| 10 | Full-time undergraduate , postgraduate , diploma and certificate students are required to pay , prior to enrolment , a composite annual fee as prescribed from time to time by the Council of the University . |
| 11 | However , the giant O-dako Edo kites of the Hamamatsu festival , as flown by teams of exuberant Japanese enthusiasts in their emblazoned happi coats , had gained greater publicity through international coverage in the media . |
| 12 | Behaviour analysis , as developed by Bales in the United States and Rackham and Warr in Britain , in which a set of categories of behaviour is used for measuring individual and group performance , and for identifying roles in groups . |
| 13 | First , an increasing gap opened up between the new scientific understanding of the universe as developed by men like Copernicus , Galileo and Newton , and the picture which orthodoxy generally believed it could find in the Bible , especially in the accounts of creation in the first two chapters of Genesis . |
| 14 | These terms and conditions ( as amended from time to time ‘ the Conditions ’ ) regulate the use of an Abbeylink Card ( ‘ your Card ’ ) and form the basis of a contract between the customer ( you ) and Abbey National plc ( us ) . |
| 15 | Perhaps no political argument could persuade American judges to reject the proposition that Congress must be elected in the manner prescribed by the Constitution , as amended from time to time in accordance with its own amending provisions . |
| 16 | A second charge certificate will be issued to the husband , and the Land Registry will serve notice of the second charge on the first mortgagee ( Land Registration Act 1925 , s30 as amended by Law of Property ( Amendment ) Act 1926 , s5 ) where the first charge was made for securing further advances ( in addition to the original advance ) . |
| 17 | A vote was then taken on the resolution with 's addition and as amended by QC with the following result : in favour 29 ; against 50 . |
| 18 | Another vote was then taken on the resolution , with 's addition , but otherwise retaining the original wording ie. not as amended by QC with the following result : in favour 65 ; against 17 . |
| 19 | Land Registration — Register — Rectification — Registered owner executing power of attorney — Donee of power tricked into signing transfer — Building society granting mortgage on property — Whether general power to order rectification of register — Land Registration Act 1925 ( 15 Geo. 5 , c. 21 ) , s. 82 ( as amended by Administration of Justice Act 1977 ( c. 38 ) , ss. 24 , 32 , Sch . |
| 20 | With the aid of measured drawings and a 1:10 model of the room in the Alcazar Palace in Madrid , destroyed by fire in 1734 , in which Velazquez painted ‘ Las Meninas ’ ( now in the Prado ) , Philip Troutman , director of the Courtauld Institute Galleries 1958–80 , has been able convincingly to show that the figures seen in the mirror at the far end of the room in ‘ Las Meninas ’ are those of the king and queen as painted by Velazquez on the canvas propped on the easel , and not , as has been suggested , of figures peering through the doorway behind the viewer . |
| 21 | Watching actors in animal costume making their sophisticated jokes was like proof of anthropologists ' statements , as typified by Frazer in that same conclusion to The Dying God , where he stated that serious rites had become idle amusement , mummeries , and childish games . |
| 22 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |
| 23 | It can also be clearly demonstrated that the ‘ best ’ curricula as designed by centres in Ghana , Nigeria or Kenya are within the competence of the ‘ best ’ schools , teachers and children . |
| 24 | The explanatory independent variables in the analyses were birth weight and length of pregnancy as reported by parents in the questionnaire . |
| 25 | However , as reported by others in a few patients , higher numbers of dundic argyrophil cells ( +48.5% ) were observed in patients with MEN 1 associated than sporadic type Zollinger-Ellison sydrome . |
| 26 | I u I went in one there was like a junction as come from Pit into . |
| 27 | 4 & 1 Vict. c. 26 ) , s. 9(a) ( b ) ( as substituted by Administration of Justice Act 1982 ( c. 53 ) , s. 17 ) |
| 28 | The southern bypass and the A fifty nine link to the A one already supply that , as recommended in fact by the County Planning Committee to the Highways and Transport Committee in May ninety two . |
| 29 | This proposal will give the Directors the flexibility in future to make relatively routine changes to the schemes and the Directors intend initially to use this authority to incorporate the power to allow option holders , with the agreement of any acquiring company , to exchange their options over shares in the Company for options over the shares of that company ( or another company in the same group ) as permitted by statute since 1987 . |
| 30 | There is no better example of the uncontrollable exercise of state power , resulting in perhaps the worst invasion of individual autonomy imaginable , than the decision to use nuclear weapons ; and the aftermath of their use reveals the uncontrolled assumption by the state of virtually limitless emergency powers leading to the forced starvation of some of the population and the summary execution of others ( as depicted for example in BBC 's ‘ Threads ’ ) ( Campbell , 1985 ; Laurie , 1983 ) . |