Example sentences of "as to [pron] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Unfortunately , however , there is a great deal of uncertainty as to what the word means . |
| 2 | Again , it is not easy to be dogmatic in answer to the question whether a court is exercising a judicial function when it entertains a reference from the Attorney-General as to what the law is on a particular point . |
| 3 | That the view of the judge 's role as declaratory is inadequate can be seen if one considers that the reason many cases come to court ( which are only a minority of the cases that are actually started ) is because there is genuine doubt as to what the law is . |
| 4 | The book is prefaced by a quotation from William Faulkner 's The Bear , in which McCaslin says ( in response to uncertainty as to what the poem they were discussing meant ) , ‘ He had to talk about something . ’ |
| 5 | There is little agreement as to what the concept of integration implies , and the whole process is set against a backdrop of rapidly shifting opinion as to the legitimate scope of environmental policy itself . |
| 6 | It was unclear as to what the fate of Korea would be at the end of the Pacific War , since Korean affairs would be subsumed in the profound questions involving the future of Japan and the eventual intervention of the Soviet Union with much depending on the character of the American-Soviet relationship at that time . |
| 7 | Erm , could you give us some idea as to what the level of the accrue er , fees on loans guarantees and , and so forth on the erm , |
| 8 | The question may be raised as to what the position would be if the trust borrowed monies and the settlor simply gave a bank guarantee for the repayment of the borrowings by the trust . |
| 9 | Ianthe smiled uneasily , feeling that some kind of guessing game was being played between them and that she ought to play her part by making a suggestion as to what the work could have been . |
| 10 | However this restriction of information left staff as a whole unclear as to what the self-appraisal stated were the general aims and policies of the school . |
| 11 | When questioned at the time , and for some time afterwards , as to what the novel was ‘ about ’ , I would reply vaguely that it referred to a period in my life in the 1960s , when I was married to a successful pop star and spent much of my time travelling up and down motorways , lulled with anti-depressants and sitting , an immobile non-person , in the back of a sealed , silent and chauffeur-driven Rolls Royce . |
| 12 | despite television being overwhelmingly the major source of news for the general public , audience perceptions of the news and as to what the strike was all about differed considerably . |
| 13 | Returning to the example given earlier of the broker/dealer department advising customer A to purchase shares in company B when the corporate finance department is advising B and knows that it is on the verge of insolvency , the question arises as to what the firm must divulge to A in order to modify its duty of undivided loyalty to A to the extent necessary to permit it to withhold the information about B. |
| 14 | ‘ It seemed as though there was some confusion as to what the church people wanted and did not want , ’ said Coun. Lyonette . |
| 15 | By contrast , the decision to impose conditions is taken by the policeman , and it may be that the courts will not defer so readily to the judgment of a single person as to what the scope of his powers actually is . |
| 16 | The panel hopes now that this statement of faith can be seen as a useful and fairly accessible indicator to outsiders as to what the faith is all about , and at the same time as a ring of words which at least the majority of us within the church can happily affirm . |
| 17 | So we have suggested , erm , you will see in our evidence that policy H One should be amended and their are clearly a number of ways in which that amended amendment could take place , but we would particularly suggest that erm an indication should be given as to what the proportion of each district 's allocation is assumed to be going to the new settlement , if the new settlement is is agreed under the H Two discussion , thank you . |
| 18 | All these can provide information about the site , giving clues as to what the roof looked like , where the floor tiles were made , and how many of the floors had mosaics . |
| 19 | Indeed he was probably uncertain himself as to what the end-point would be , except that it was bound to be a less rigid and less bipolar system than the old one ; and he assumed that a more flexible multipolar system would not only be more advantageous to France but would be safer and more equitable for all states . |
| 20 | If one activity needs to be very closely content-focused ( maybe , for example , at the opening of the topic where the children are put clearly in the picture as to what the topic is to be about ) , another needs to be constructed to allow pupil exploratory work . |
| 21 | During the Sixties and Seventies the systems gradually improved , the computer parts got more powerful and cheaper and it even became possible to get some sort of an idea as to what the page might look like . |
| 22 | My Lord Mr was a conveyancing , the defendants firm are a a firm which specialise in commercial conveyancing matters and Mr was an experienced solicitor within that field and therefore the report addresses the duties to be owed by somebody working in that field and advising clients as to what the extent of the duty is . |
| 23 | whether it could properly be said that it 's a duty because it 's not , it 's a guide , er the question arises as to whether it 's a duty but of course it 's here , it 's always been in the expert 's report incorporated in it the reference to it erm but er Lord in my submission er it is undoubtedly correct that your Lordship would be greatly helped by hearing evidence from a solicitor engaged regularly , frequently , in commercial conveyancing work as to what the extent of the practice , the accepted practice and the professional standards operated by solicitors in this field and |
| 24 | Nevertheless , as I 've detailed on the handout , there are some pieces of survey evidence available as to what the extent of various practices are , apparently . |
| 25 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 26 | It is relatively easy for a court using the formal language of keeping a body within the four corners of its powers to impose its own view as to what the authority should have done . |
| 27 | Very often I fail to see that something is on its way to birth , and tax myself with totally useless questions as to what the matter might be . |
| 28 | If , on the one hand , the outcome is insensitive to variation-say , in a valuation-the question arises as to what the study is sensitive to . |
| 29 | He had the look of an old man waiting outside the doctor 's office in a paupers ' hospital ; sent for , rather than there by choice ; content to wait ; apathetic as to what the doctor would tell him , because good news no longer existed and bad news was no longer bad , but merely an essential ingredient of his condition . |
| 30 | Although she had no suspicions of Tamar 's interest in Gareth Davis , she had noticed a suppressed excitement in her mistress of late and worried as to what the cause could be . |