Example sentences of "as [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Misunderstandings have sometimes arisen from an unwarrantable belief that title deeds are sacrosanct documents , whereas the truth is that neither a conveyance nor a land certificate retains its value if the landowner is so indifferent as to lose physical control of his land . |
| 2 | Written with small firms in mind , MAAP will produce audit planning and control documentation to satisfy the audit regulations , as well as generating high quality financial statements , all from one source of data . |
| 3 | The reference to specific information only , can be best explained by the need to ensure that the definition of inside information is not so wide as to include legitimate research undertaken by investment analysts . |
| 4 | The argument over housing in Derry soon came to be focused on am important issue of corporation policy — the question of extending the city boundary so as to include more land for housing and industrial development . |
| 5 | The Articles also permitted the Board to delegate any of the powers vested in it to a committee and defined ‘ the Board ’ so as to include any committee authorised by the Board to act on its behalf . |
| 6 | Can I encourage the Minister to do the double by restoring the funding so as to enable much-needed house building and repairs to go ahead , and at the same time give the necessary financial boost to the devastated building and construction industry ? |
| 7 | To satisfy the US Senate article 5 was so phrased as to enable each state to respond to aggression only with " such action as it deems necessary , including the use of armed force " . |
| 8 | These are the people who are often quoted as enjoying good health to a ripe old age despite smoking , drinking and never taking any exercise . |
| 9 | One way in which the terms of competition in the single market may be affected is by granting state subsidies which favour certain undertakings or the production of certain goods in such a way as to affect inter-state trade . |
| 10 | Certain types of agreement will seldom if ever qualify for exemption , for example those which restrict competition so as to affect inter-state trade and contain export bans , maintain retail prices or lead to absolute territorial protection of national markets . |
| 11 | All the trees , so large now as to enclose this garden , excluding the sight of other houses , so that but for the complex of railway lines it might have been in the country , were in late summer leaf . |
| 12 | Deprived of prey , the tiger naturally encroached on farm land to feed on the deer attracted by the crops as well as to kill domestic stock . |
| 13 | This two-track approach was seen by the press in member countries as reflecting continued manoeuvring over the role of the United States in the alliance , against a background of US troop reductions in Europe and Franco-German proposals for a European military force . |
| 14 | These trends continued in a broadly similar pattern over the Heath years ( continuing decline of manual employment in manufacturing and expansion of the salariat accompanied by continuing social mobility ) so perhaps one can understand the revival of the Liberal Party ( with its relative lack of symbolic ‘ class ’ connections , and lack of political ‘ dogmatism ’ ) as reflecting this trend ‘ de-alignment ’ as well as the conjuncture of 1974 . |
| 15 | The strength of the protest vote against the mainstream parties was seen as reflecting popular disillusionment with their unsuccessful attempts to resolve the country 's long-running linguistic problems and to complete constitutional reforms [ see p. 38465 ] . |
| 16 | Although there are some formidable technological hurdles to overcome , the concept is already being put into practice in several projects , most prominently from where Mace stands , in the IBM Corp/Apple Computer Inc/Motorola Inc effort to bring some of the functionality found in Motorola 's 680x0 and 88000 processor families onto the PowerPC RISC architecture the three are developing , as well as maintaining binary compatibility with IBM 's RS/6000 Power RISC . |
| 17 | For many , ‘ law ’ and ‘ order ’ refer to the ideal of legality ( or ‘ the rule of law ’ ) — and while it is clear that this does not refer to an uncontroversial notion , it is arguable that most people would agree on certain core features of the rule of law : a congruence of official action with a previously declared rule so as to preserve individual autonomy and freedom from arbitrary state power , and a notion of equal treatment of individuals in the eye of the law . |
| 18 | In typical elitist manner Schumpeter describes these notions as both unrealistic and dangerous ; but a major difference from classical elite theorists is that Schumpeter wants to redefine democracy so as to preserve some recognition of the fact of popular participation and to take account of the inevitably limited nature of this participation . |
| 19 | This was inevitably rejected by the Catholic SDLP as perpetuating Protestant rule in Ulster , while the Paisleyite Unionists condemned any form of power-sharing with the ‘ Papists ’ . |
| 20 | Organic farming is better for wild birds as well as producing healthier food for humans , according to early returns from a three-year study by the British Trust for Ornithology . |
| 21 | There is little doubt that Hamer have achieved what they set out to do as far as producing great vintage guitar tones from contemporary instruments . |
| 22 | The new Lady Woodleigh looked as if she might take her riding-crop to him if he so much as uttered another word . |
| 23 | Is our political culture more attractive if seen as accepting that virtue ? |
| 24 | When the system is fully operational , such activities as accepting keyboarded input , outputting to proofing devices and to external systems ( e.g. Oxford Text System ) , text searching , integration , and any other processes on the system data will proceed in parallel , although different sections of the text will be subject to each process . |
| 25 | But practice can mean going through the motions just as much as accumulating factual knowledge . |
| 26 | As well as using this guide and learning from practical experience , an important way of improving our service is for us to continue to be knowledgeable about the broader theory and practice of our work . |
| 27 | Of the 106 authorities who responded and could be used for analysis , seventy-eight were described as using some form of standardised intelligence test and nearly all were using examination procedures to measure attainment in English and arithmetic , though the variety of standard , ‘ tried out ’ and internal tests was wider . |
| 28 | The Body Shop as a group joined Friends of the Earth and pursued such policies as using recycled paper for packaging . |
| 29 | It was still opposed by Danish environmentalists , who claimed that it would affect the salinity of the Baltic Sea by partially blocking the Öresund , as well as bringing greater pollution to the Copenhagen area through increased traffic flows , but supporters of the project said that it would bring new economic activity to the area . |
| 30 | The foundation of Scotland 's success was laid in the loose by the captain , David Sole , and the No.8 , Derek White , whose pace often confounded the Romanian back row , as well as bringing each man a second-half try . |