Example sentences of "in [noun sg] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the 1930s the words ‘ fascism ’ and ‘ fascist ’ were so much in vogue as to make inevitable their widespread application to the Nationalist cause and the emergent Franco regime . |
| 2 | The pursuers , having had no response to their requests for payment , treated the defenders ' failure in payment as discharging the contract and withdrew from the site , leaving the installation in an uncompleted state . |
| 3 | It reads in part as follows : |
| 4 | The decision followed an announcement that the Danish team in the Winter Olympics would be wearing Greenland sealskin jackets , and it was seen in part as representing an effort to avoid any potential disruption of the games by Greenpeace demonstrators . |
| 5 | Drudy ( 1978 ) saw changes in agriculture as contributing significantly to population loss even in relatively prosperous rural areas such as north Norfolk . |
| 6 | This far exceeds the Bruntland Commission recommendation of 12% protection and represents a substantial increase in protection as compared to before the decision , when just 15% of the area was preserved . |
| 7 | Farningham described one of her most fearsome lessons in humility as follows : |
| 8 | These are employers ' national insurance contributions , employees ' superannuation contributions , benefits in kind as provided to all by the state ( e.g. hospitals , schools , etc. ) and finally , benefits received in the form of expense-account living . |
| 9 | Pollution control field staff have defined their central task in practice as securing the compliance of those who pollute , or risk polluting , watercourses . |
| 10 | He explains what this means in practice as follows ( 1968 : 602–3 ) : This assertion , in another conference paper ( of 1960 ) entitled ‘ Poetry of grammar and grammar of poetry ’ , was subsequently corroborated by a series of studies of individual poems in six different European languages , ranging in date from the thirteenth to the twentieth century . |
| 11 | The Committee identified some of the gaps in research as related to inadequate statistical information , particularly in central government . |
| 12 | The purpose was to make applicable to building societies the composite rate system which had been in force as respects bank interest since the Finance Act 1984 . |
| 13 | A new and very junior partner may make little headway in challenging the terms of partnership offered him where similar terms are already in force as regards other partners in the firm . |
| 14 | It is true that in grammar some linguistic choices may be designated " unmarked " and " neutral " in contrast to others : for example , the choice of third-person pronouns ( he , she , they , etc ) may be regarded as neutral in narration as compared with I and you . |
| 15 | Hence he attaches importance to spending more of the government 's research cash in industry as opposed to within the government 's own establishments . |
| 16 | In industry as opposed to merely the farming industry the range of facilities offered by the Welsh Development Agency , provided by way of regional selective assistance , makes Wales an attractive place in which to invest . |
| 17 | For weaving and punch lace you can in theory have either the left or right light on , though most patterns have been designed with one or more in mind as indicated by the pattern sheets or books concerned . |
| 18 | As we have said , when bereavement care is thought of , it is usually the spouse that we have in mind as needing support , and indeed they are likely to be the ones asking for care . |
| 19 | Erm the calculations that we have at the moment take on board the twenty five percent back in migration as proposed in the housing figures . |
| 20 | It is not good enough to use language which blurs the sharp reality , as for example : ‘ the ultimate control of the Company is seen in law as residing with the owners or shareholder ’ as if to suggest that there is some other and valid way of seeing it , a way which may put the ultimate control , at least in part , elsewhere . |
| 21 | Conflicts of interest are particularly likely to arise in firms that are companies because , even if there is functional segregation within a company with different activities being carried out in different departments between which there are Chinese walls , the knowledge of one part of the company will be attributed to ( ie treated in law as known to ) all parts . |
| 22 | It has been suggested so far that many academic lawyers and policemen share the view that where a woman has sexual intercourse with a man , she should be regarded in law as having consented to it save in exceptional circumstances as where violence or the threat of it is used . |
| 23 | ABC whose authorised share capital is currently 100,000 ordinary shares of £1 of which 60,000 shares are in issue as set out in Schedule 1 , column ( 2 ) . |
| 24 | Either therefore insist upon believing in Pacifism as measured by the use of force and go out of politics , or define Pacifism as something emphasising the power of reason and stay in politics . |
| 25 | Sew in place as shown in picture . |
| 26 | If benefits are targeted at those most in need as assessed by a means test , then the poverty and unemployment traps may be encountered . |
| 27 | The child does not have to be a child in need as defined in the Act . |
| 28 | Section 17(10) defines children in need as follows : a child shall be taken to be in need if : ( a ) he is unlikely to achieve or maintain , or to have the opportunity of achieving or maintaining , a reasonable standard of health or development without the provision for him of services by a local authority under [ Part III of the Act ] ; ( b ) his health or development is likely to be significantly impaired , without the provision for him of such services ; or ( c ) he is disabled . |
| 29 | In other words , little ozone holes , several hundreds of kilometres across , may be forming in middle latitudes during the winter rather than one large hole , several thousands of kilometres across , forming over the pole in springtime as happens in Antarctica . |
| 30 | If it is true that , today as in 1869 , low-income families pay broadly the same percentage of their income in tax as do middle-income groups , then one needs to explain why a supposedly ‘ progressive ’ tax system has had this result . |