Example sentences of "as [prep] [det] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 Can we expect to achieve sufficient political agreement to formulate the necessary dispute-resolving rules in an ideologically divided world , even if the avowed intention is to establish rules which are neutral as between such ideologies , the acceptance of which would not be taken as manifesting more than a commitment to getting some agreed rules ?
2 He reiterated that the USA had a huge advantage in aircraft , and a combination of the escalator clause with fifth freedom rights ‘ would enable American aircraft to carry most of the traffic between the UK and the Dominions of India and all foreign countries , as well as between all nations of the Commonwealth ’ .
3 Work organisation is taken to cover inter alia work and job structures , technology , control , employment and the labour process , and research has also tended to be fragmented as between these aspects .
4 However States do not always do this and there can also be uncertainty with respect to individual provisions which can be in force as between some parties but not others .
5 It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) .
6 It is felt that this is too small a sample to give a meaningful impact weighting factor derived in this manner , since , if the rejection figure for thesis-derived papers is the same as for all papers , this would only amount to two or three papers ( 27% of 10% ) .
7 But as for all things in life , moderation is the key-word .
8 For Jacqueline , as for all artists , it is the work itself that remains the point of departure and intrigue .
9 Expectations need to be appropriately set and as high for bilingual pupils as for all others .
10 This was the same proportion as for all households .
11 ‘ The world 's hunger for bulk consumer products like plastics and fibres — as well as for all sorts of industrial chemical intermediates — will not go away . ’
12 The pilot has not been cheap , and resourcing implications are a serious consideration for us , as for many colleges .
13 The Suez debacle had been the great emblematic event for Healey , as for many others of his generation , vividly demonstrating the gulf between imperial pretence and potential .
14 The first explicit recognition comes , as for many women , with an apparently trivial event which provides route into the buried memories combined with hearing a story of a child who has been recently abused .
15 For them , as for many Arabs , Israel and America are one .
16 As for these murders , as you name them , the first one only , that of the child , was done in malice , when I had no knowledge of those states of being which you , not I , can enjoy — to wit , life and death .
17 As for these men who came here which you called volunteers , they will neither be volunteers nor will they be tied to any colours or receive any pay .
18 As for these comments about her being an arch manipulator , we can look back on anyone 's life and review situations from a certain perpective and see them as manipulative or self-seeking or whatever .
19 Now this can be rather boring , as for some students it will actually be going over material that they have met .
20 There were apparently no immediate takers as for some years Charles continued to run Eastington 's three mills , but now in conjunction with Beards and Bonds Mills , just outside the parish .
21 As for those countries who live under a non-religious dictatorship and are officially atheist , they appear to have learned a few things from the Inquisition .
22 And as for those alter-egos , his trade name ‘ Samuel Northcliffe ’ still cropped up in the financial and marketing press .
23 As for those defeats at the hands of Botham and Sidcombe I would rate both , in footballing terms , as nightmares .
24 A type attribute may be used to distinguish amongst divisions in some respect other than their hierarchic position : the values for this attribute ( as for several others in the TEI scheme ) are not standardized , precisely because no consensus exists , or is likely to exist , as to a typology .
25 The star performer , as for several years past , was polypropylene , which jumped from under 3.1m tonnes in 1989 to over 3.3m tonnes last year .
26 It ‘ s a war , a long , bitter and pointless war , in which towns are burnt , cities taken , allies betrayed … and at the end of the war , as after all wars , there is no victory , only the shabby compromise of peace .
27 Moreover , the frequent mention of the king in this context highlights the greatest single weakness of this political system , as of most others in the Middle Ages .
28 As against these virtues , timber creeps .
29 Something of a myth has developed about the universality of ‘ live ’ variety that can be explained in terms of generalizations based on those great centres London and New York , and by the ubiquitous nature of printed sheet music which often used the name of a star as a selling gimmick and which took songs into many pubs and drinking saloons as well as into many homes .
30 As with all denizens of Fairyland , the glastyn may be perverse as well as benign by turn , and reports have been noted of those who have run amok , raping women and destroying crops if they have been slighted in any way .
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