Example sentences of "as [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Scale can also lead to expensive and time-consuming maintenance problems in dishwashers , blocking spray nozzles as well as building up on heating elements and causing their premature failure .
2 They are not so much ‘ on the march ’ — where are their jackboots , eagle emblems and other traditional paraphernalia ? — as shambling along in worry or despair .
3 Hegel 's Idealism is ‘ absolute ’ in that it sees all reality as gathered up in the all-encompassing , impersonal Mind which is God .
4 As pointed out at the beginning of this section , some of the interesting responses that arise on applying somewhat larger sinusoidal e.m.f.s to nonlinear resistive circuits such that the signal behaviour is governed by the nonlinear relation have been considered in section 5.9 .
5 As pointed out by the collector and historian van Mander writing in 1604 , ‘ Whoever so desires nowadays has only to go to Prague to the greatest art patron in the world at the present time ; there he may see at the Imperial residence a remarkable number of outstanding and precious , curious , unusual , and priceless works . ’
6 Moreover , as pointed out by Watkins L.J .
7 To consider that matter at a point of time when the child has been placed under protection for several weeks , first by a place of safety order and then by one or more interim care orders , would , as pointed out by Bush J. in M. v. Westminster City Council [ 1985 ] F.L.R. 325 , 340 , defeat the purpose of Parliament .
8 To localise a region of dysfunction , therefore , is not to localise a function , as pointed out by Hughlings Jackson in the nineteenth century .
9 As pointed out by the report of the Law Commissions , this requirement causes problems whenever property either does not pass at all , or passes independently of the transfer of the bill of lading , or where the transfer of the bill is not causative of the passing of property .
10 Editor , — Otitis media with effusion is a controversial issue , as pointed out by Ruut A De Melker , but the complications of grommet insertion may have been overstated — no paper published in English suggests that grommets may cause cholesteatoma .
11 As pointed out by Hall et al .
12 As pointed out by Edelen ( 1976 ) the inescapability of non-locality ( the dependence of stress and body force at a point on the state of the whole body ) was first noted by Duhem in 1983 and further emphasized by Oseen 's 1933 work on liquid crystals .
13 This latter character may not be particularly useful as pointed out by Clark ( 1970 ) .
14 However material from the Biogas reveals , as pointed out by Bartsch ( 1983b ) , that such differences are partly attributable to size and that the tooth shape is not constant .
15 Similarly , as pointed out by an exploratory group working on aesthetic assessment , there are no available procedures suitable for assessing artistic appraisals and these need to be developed ( APU , 1983 ) .
16 As pointed out by Chesher ( 1984 ) , this is also White 's ( 1983 ) Information Matrix test for misspecification .
17 The existence of other cases where this connection apparently can not be made , as pointed out by Jespersen , indicates however that this sense can not be taken as descriptive of the full potential for meaning which to has in contemporary English .
18 Moreover , as pointed out by Mair ( 1990 : 122 ) , cause can be used to express intended causation : ( 130 ) By transferring the DNA from a rough-coated bacterium to a smooth-coated one , he caused the latter to produce rough-coated offspring , and the character bred true thereafter .
19 As pointed out in Chapter 3 the difference between ourselves and chimpanzees does not lie within the cell types but in their spatial organization .
20 As pointed out in an earlier chapter , security was placed in the hands of the army as part of the innovations of the Whitelaw administration .
21 Of course , the data presented in the community care plans are limited and , as pointed out in the introduction to the methodology , it could be argued that their relation to real change is tenuous .
22 The consequences , as pointed out in Schroeder ( A ) Music Publishing Co v Macaulay [ 1974 ] 1 WLR 1308 in the Court of Appeal , is that all acts taken under the clause prior to judgment remain undisturbed but that future ones will , assuming the successful party chooses to rely on the judgment , be unenforceable. 8 Consideration In any contract there has to be consideration but the question which has frequently arisen in restraint of trade cases is whether the court is at all concerned as to the adequacy of the particular consideration in the instant case .
23 Evidently , as pointed out in section 4.5 , approaches via damped oscillations which are often referred to as ringing .
24 However , notice that the effectiveness of this mechanism clearly depends on the interest-elasticity of investment which , as pointed out in Chapter 19 , is likely to be very low in the boom and slump periods of a trade cycle .
25 A possible framework for comprehensive assessment is offered through the concepts of quality of life and risk : two related , multidimensional concepts which can be translated into statements of purpose and scope as well as broken down into the factors which constitute quality of life and risk .
26 Significantly , the study draws attention to one of the causes of fairly rapid growth in these sectors , namely the transfer of jobs from the production industries as contracting out to the service industries continues .
27 But Sunday 's win should erase those ghosts , as well as make up for last year 's defeat to France in the final in Lyon .
28 Under the overseas person exemption , many types of investment business which are actually carried on in the UK ( albeit from a non-UK office ) , are in effect treated as carried on outside the UK for the purposes of the FSA ( and so do not require authorisation under the FSA ) if the firm does not have a UK office from which it carries on investment business and : ( 1 ) The firm deals with or through , or arranges transactions with , an FSA-authorised person , such as a UK stockbroker , or an exempted person , such as a listed money market institution , acting within the terms of its exemption ( para 26 of Sched 1 ) ; this applies even if that person is an affiliate ; ( 2 ) the firm did not solicit the business in contravention of the FSA 's restrictions on the issue of investment advertisements and cold calling ( para 27 of Sched 1 ) .
29 Thus , cases such as Expro Services Ltd v Smith [ 1991 ] IRLR 156 , involving the contracting out by the Ministry of Defence of its catering function , should not fail in the future on the grounds that the catering operation , as carried on by the Ministry , was not in the nature of a commercial venture .
30 " Regulated business " is defined by the COB Rules to mean either of the following : ( 1 ) Investment business carried on from a UK office ( of the firm or of an appointed representative ) ; this is the case even if the customer is a non-UK client and even if an account officer goes overseas to meet him ; or ( 2 ) Investment business carried on from a non-UK office with or for customers in the UK , except where that business would not be treated as carried on in the UK ( and so would not require FSA authorisation ) if the non-UK office had been a separate person ; this exception , in effect , provides the " foreign business carve-out " from the COB Rules for business with UK customers ( see page 40 below ) ; certain marketing rules are , however , brought back in ( see page 42 below ) .
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