Example sentences of "as [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for such a power is that contemporaneous reporting may prejudice either the proceedings in question ( as where the material — although heard in open court — has not been made known to the jury ) or some further proceedings which were pending or imminent at the time . |
| 2 | In the planning sphere it has been used to invalidate conditions attached to planning permission such as that the developer should construct an ancillary road over the frontage of the site at his own expense to which rights of passage should be given to others , and that a property developer should allow those on a council housing list to occupy the houses with security of tenure for 10 years.u The test has also been adopted in the context of industrial relations , though in this instance the decision attacked was upheld . |
| 3 | About six months ago , our deputy general secretary wrote to Monseigneur , the general secretary of the bishops conference , and er told him that we hoped progress was being made , referred in particular to the degree of consensus that had been a arrived at in the baptism eucharist and ministry document and er also to the difference that had been made by the coming into being of ACTS and its commission on unity faith and order and we had a reply to that er a letter from Monseigneur assuring as that the hierarchy were taking this seriously , that they were discussing it er amongst themselves in Scotland and were also in discussion with Rome on the subject as well . |
| 4 | Most studies consider only social behaviour in the herd , or readily observed facts , such as that the horse is easily frightened , or that it will work better if it is rewarded rather than punished . |
| 5 | We require two types of jump instruction ; one ( the unconditional jump ) which always changes the program counter , and one ( the conditional jump ) which changes the program counter only if a certain condition is true ( such as that the accumulator contains a non-negative value ) ; if the condition is false , the next instruction to be executed is the one stored immediately after the jump instruction . |
| 6 | If all this had to be summed up in one sentence I suppose it would have to be that Wittgenstein 's treatment of the ‘ Other Minds ’ problem is an extended illustration of a point in philosophical logic : namely , that the meaningfulness of some of the things we say is dependent on contingent facts of nature — such as that the Earth revolves on its axis , and that we moan with pain and react as we do to others who moan . |
| 7 | Other possible inferences , such as that the teacher was angry , would remain appropriate but would not be essential for interpretation . |
| 8 | In London , though , life went on that Friday almost as if the invasion had not happened . |
| 9 | The strap-hangers were swaying unsteadily , as if the metal floor were running in wavelets . |
| 10 | He held on , digging his fingers into metal , as if the metal were soft and would give . |
| 11 | Section 677 applies as if the capital sum had been paid to the settlor by the trustees of the settlement thus bringing the whole £100,000 worth of income , potentially , into charge to tax under s677 . |
| 12 | Even Mister Johnny sat still , as if the story had lulled him , though perhaps it was only the soft sound of Hepzibah 's voice . |
| 13 | She sat down in front of the mirror and brushed her hair carefully , as if the success of her enterprise lay entirely in the sleek disposal of each gleaming black thread . |
| 14 | It 's as if the relationship needed redefining and I was n't committed to doing that . |
| 15 | Despite his sharply critical memoranda on Britain in 1965 and 1966 , he could write as if the relationship were still at its peak : [ The British and Americans ] to an exceptional degree , … look out on the world through similarly refracted spectacles . |
| 16 | The applause crescendos , as if the boy is really present , and not simply broadcast from a video tape of an American Nation of Islam meeting . |
| 17 | It was as if the boy were charged with some powerful yet masked vitality . |
| 18 | Yes , it was as if the boy were a compact little battery , filled with the energy of knowing ; a veiled light , awaiting its moment to shine out , illuminating the world . |
| 19 | It was as if the boy was somehow both more and , at the same time , less human than anyone he had ever come across . |
| 20 | He looked down at the child , surprised , as if the boy would vanish at any moment , leaving him holding nothing . |
| 21 | It is not as if the Home Secretary had not been warned . |
| 22 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 23 | It was as if the Baron had picked up her thought . |
| 24 | It looks as if the manuscript version ( with a different ordering from the printed one ) was the one submitted to Mizler , while the engraved plates may well not have been used until after Bach 's death , providing a companion to the posthumous printing of The art of fugue . |
| 25 | It is as if the legislature wishes both to compromise the criminalizing effect of conviction and to mitigate the impact of a prosecution facilitated by strict liability ( cf. |
| 26 | And it was as if the cow knew she was beaten . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's almost as if the recession dam has broken . |
| 28 | That brings me onto another point which is made in the panel 's submission that people have talked all the time about the limits of traffic management on the A sixty one as if the objective of traffic management was to get through Harrogate quicker . |
| 29 | He had completed another revolution of the prescribed path , and the man still stood and stared at the fences , and his shoulders were not hunched as if the cold no longer concerned him . |
| 30 | Her body felt stiff and awkward , as if the cold she felt had been physical enough to stiffen her muscles , as well as freeze her heart . |