Example sentences of "as [subord] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No other vehicle need be involved as where a person or animal or property is involved ( R v Pico [ 1971 ] Crim LR 599 ) . |
| 2 | As compared with a ‘ profit maximisation within the law ’ regime , this may in some areas lead to outcomes which are more efficient from a social point of view , as where a company takes voluntary action to internalise external costs . |
| 3 | In other respects it may in principle result in conduct which is wealth reducing overall , as where a company retains employees who on a strict cost/benefit analysis would be made redundant . |
| 4 | I can see no reasons in principle for limiting the availability of certiorari to a patent excess of power ( as where a visitor has decided something which was not within his remit ) and excluding review on other grounds recognised by the law . |
| 5 | Institutional shareholders prefer an employee trust to an option scheme , as it will not dilute their equity in the company ; this is because an option scheme established by a company usually provides for options to subscribe shares , whereas an employee trust can be empowered to grant options over shares already in issue and which come to be held by the trust , as where an employee leaves and sells his shares to the trustees . |
| 6 | But in Nephila and many other spiders , the value of b will be low as once a male has located a female 's web , he stays there . |
| 7 | The distinction is unlikely to make much difference , as once a duty has been found to exist , the standard of care will be the same , reasonable care in all the circumstances of the case . |
| 8 | As well as if a promontory were , |
| 9 | He holds , therefore , under the same terms in equity as if a lease has been granted … |
| 10 | As well as if a manor of thy friends |
| 11 | Ruth was silent , as stunned as if a bus had driven into her . |
| 12 | In exchange for most of a shipment of Hawk parts worth $6.5m , no hostages appeared ; and the hopelessness of the enterprise was laid out as clearly as if a hand had drawn it in the heavens . |
| 13 | If these apply and if , for example , the loans are redeemed using equal annual instalments of principal , then the revenue charge will be exactly the same as if an asset was depreciated using straight-line depreciation and any loan repayments were merely balance sheet transfers . |
| 14 | Such issues as whether a system is able to provide an adequate model of how humans process the language are of limited interest to this school of research . |
| 15 | When headquarters control extended to such mundane questions as whether a chemical or flushing toilet should be installed and whether surrounds should be grassed over or concreted , it is easy to understand the frustration of the engineers in the divisions . |
| 16 | If party competition may be represented along a single spectrum ( e.g. , ‘ left-right ’ ) , if individual preferences are single-peaked , and they vote sincerely , then as before a majority voting equilibrium exists . |
| 17 | Er that which makes it as critical as as a lot of er paper work . |
| 18 | Most human beings are conservative and dislike change , particularly enforced change as when a patient is admitted to hospital . |
| 19 | The focus on the addresser , for instance a speaker or an author , constitutes the emotive function , that of expressing the addresser 's attitudes or feelings ; the focus on the addressee or receiver , the conative function , that of influencing the feelings or attitudes of the addressee ; the focus on the context , the real , external situation in which the message occurs , the referential function ; the focus on the code , as when a message elucidates a point of grammar , the metalingual function ; the focus on the means of contact , as in the case , say , of expressions inserted by one party into a telephone conversation simply in order to reassure the other party that they are both still on the line , the phatic function ; the focus on the message itself , the poetic function . |
| 20 | To illustrate this point , Piaget uses the following examples : the creation or imagined characters to provide a sympathetic audience for a child 's actions or speech ; catharsis , as when a doll is allowed to ride a machine which a child fears ; and compensatory combinations , as when a child goes through the motions of pretend washing up when forbidden access to the real thing by its parent . |
| 21 | The nature of a painter 's technique is never scrutinised so closely as when a work has just been cleaned , and at the heart of the exhibition will be eight of the fourteen Titians in the Louvre 's own collection that have just been freed of their treacly , dark varnishes and retouchings . |
| 22 | Some channels are direct , as when a computer firm sells its products direct to the users . |
| 23 | They recognized ambiguity , in cases where , for example , a pronoun might have one of two referents ; they recognized syntactical mistakes , as when a character in the story not previously mentioned was introduced as ‘ the passerby ’ , when the indefinite article would have been appropriate ; they quickly spotted mistakes in tense . |
| 24 | But the question is not pursued with the same tenacity and intensity as when a child dies in tragic circumstances . |
| 25 | To illustrate this point , Piaget uses the following examples : the creation or imagined characters to provide a sympathetic audience for a child 's actions or speech ; catharsis , as when a doll is allowed to ride a machine which a child fears ; and compensatory combinations , as when a child goes through the motions of pretend washing up when forbidden access to the real thing by its parent . |
| 26 | To anyone familiar with the conventions of the second-person singular in modern European languages it is no surprise to learn that Shakespeare preserves the distinction You/Thou primarily to express the relationship far/near , as when a parent addresses a child ( or a master a servant ) as Thou and receives You in reply . |
| 27 | Even so , he was called upon to sign documents on occasions , as when a conveyance relating to the chapel and its land was prepared in 1805 and his name as witness ( 'John Titford , Cardmaker' ) appears alongside those of John Lacey , shoemaker , Richard Butler , weaver , and James Browning , clothier ; together they form a nice little thumb-nail sketch of the kind of men who were ‘ Chapel ’ rather than ‘ Church ’ at this period . |
| 28 | As when a swarme of Gnats at euentide Out of the fennes of Allan do arise , Their murmuring small trompets sounden wide , Whiles in the aire their clustring army flies , That as a cloud doth seeme to dim the skies ; Ne man nor beast may rest or take repast For their sharpe wounds , and noyous iniuries , |
| 29 | The sound itself is the same as when a horse answers , ‘ Yes , I 'm here ! ’ , but the sound is also the same as when the horse neighs , ‘ Hurry up with my dinner ! ’ |
| 30 | The use of ‘ one ’ , for instance , is frequently a device for indicating status or attitude , as when a politician attempts to establish neutrality or objectivity for his or her own opinions , through such phrases as ‘ one knows … ’ . |