Example sentences of "as [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ximena was seen as representing the former , while Rodrigo , who had formally renounced his rights as a Castilian noble , now stood for Leon . |
| 2 | The correspondence problem is to identify specific portions of the changing image as representing the same object at different times . |
| 3 | The main problem of the present-day settlor is so to draft the limitations of the settlement as to attract the least amount of income tax and inheritance tax . |
| 4 | The Captain had as good as said the same himself about the traces of lamb 's meat in the truck . |
| 5 | Example 4:3 Index-linked rent : upwards only YIELDING AND PAYING the annual sum of £ … ( " the basic rent " ) payable quarterly in advance on the 25th of March the 24th of June the 29th of September and the 25th of December in each year and in addition such sum payable on each of the above dates in advance ( " the index-linked rent " ) as bears the same proportion to one quarter of the basic rent as is borne by the figure shown in the General Index of Retail Prices ( " the index " ) for the month immediately preceding the months in which payment of any particular instalment of rent is due to the figure ( which is the figure shown in that index for the month of … ) minus one quarter of the basic rent PROVIDED THAT ( 1 ) if after the date of this lease the index is calculated by reference to a different base date or base figure then the index-linked rent shall be calculated as if that change had not taken place ( 2 ) if the index ceases to be published or if for any reason it becomes impossible or impracticable to calculate the index-linked rent then either the landlord or the tenant may by notice require the rent to be thenceforth reviewed at such times and in such manner as may be agreed between them or in default of agreement be determined by a single arbitrator to be appointed by the President for the time being of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors who shall have regard to market practice prevailing at the time of such notice in relation to new lettings of property of the same type as the demised property ( 3 ) in no circumstances shall the total rent payable under this lease be less than the basic rent |
| 6 | If the WGMS were to be adopted in Britain , could no way be found of modifying it so as to afford the same opportunity ? |
| 7 | ( This is no doubt in some way concerned with the employee 's honesty. ) 2 The nature of the information itself Information will only be protected if it can properly be classed as a business secret or as material which , while not properly described as a business secret is , in all the circumstances , of such a highly confidential nature as to require the same protection as a business secret eo nomine . |
| 8 | Someone from industry might be seen by employers as speaking the same language as they do themselves . |
| 9 | Now the results of experiments on habituation of the OR have been taken as supporting the latter assertion — dishabituation fails to occur if the changed context is familiar . |
| 10 | As regards the latter , it is essential that anti-insider dealing law and other self regulatory rules prohibiting abuses are analyzed from the perspective of how they alter the incentives to engage in the illegal conduct , and , more importantly , how they alter the incentives to enforce/breach the Chinese Wall . |
| 11 | As regards the latter , Rhee had stated on many occasions that Korea must be reunited ; given his advanced age , the President might well be tempted to accomplish this sooner rather than later . |
| 12 | Part of the ‘ price ’ was to be redistributive fiscal policy , and policy aimed at producing increased industrial investment , but as regards the latter aim the NEB was conceived as a state merchant bank , a broker in the tradition of the Industrial Reorganisation Corporation rather than a ‘ rogue elephant ’ wreaking industrial havoc on the basis of leftist dogma . |
| 13 | As regards the latter aspect , the floating charge provides less than perfect security . |
| 14 | As regards the latter , the committee recommended concentration on the pupil 's first language , be it Welsh or English , with emphasis on conversation and oral work , but with a due subordinate place for written work . |
| 15 | As regards the latter , some of the most mobile in the British case are workers in personal services ; those , for example , seeking work in the catering trades . |
| 16 | As regards the latter , Rose has recently adopted a Freudian interpretation of the repeated re-election of Margaret Thatcher , one which seems in line with the framework we are adopting . |
| 17 | He would be well advised to insist on a written indemnity in that respect to cover both intentional and accidental holding out , and , as regards the latter , to cover his accidentally holding himself out as a partner so long as that is done in the course of carrying out his duties for and in the interests of the firm . |
| 18 | Furthermore , as regards the former suggestion , a new institution analogous to , but not the same as , marriage , would lack the very special connotations inextricably involved in the marriage union of two people who feel strongly for each other and desire to bear witness to this feeling to the world . |
| 19 | As regards the former , land is the great resource in Pisticci . |
| 20 | Other jingo socialists went so far as to attribute the same view to Winston Churchill , quoting him as saying : |
| 21 | Ian Taylor speculates that tree clumps may act as a respiratory system , drawing up earth energies and releasing them through the clump 's composite aura , as well as performing the same function with subtle celestial stimuli . |
| 22 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 23 | In the matter of contract , drunkenness is regarded as having the same effect as insanity . |
| 24 | Aurobindo sees all things as having the same principal of life at different levels , but in all of them is the potentiality and inevitability to reach higher and higher levels . |
| 25 | Her slovenliness was a state of mind , the exteriorisation of her despair , and he saw all her faults as having the same root : bad company , bad education , bad conditions . |
| 26 | Although individual client executives tend to favour dealing with known consultants , if those consultants leave their firms , they are not necessarily then seen in the same light , or as having the same resources at their disposal . |
| 27 | First , it treats all members of a social group as having the same set of possible actions . |
| 28 | It is a bit like arguing that if the hypothesis that smoking causes lung cancer is to be believed , everybody who smokes must get cancer ; what is more nothing else ( such as asbestos ) can be admitted as having the same effect . |
| 29 | The same object may reflect different wavelengths at different times yet be seen as having the same colour . |
| 30 | So , for instance , a variation in ministerial statements on the legislative intention behind a provision in a Government Bill might be sufficient to characterize the statements as unclear , but a similar variation in the statements in the Commons and the Lords by the promoters of a private Members Bill might not be treated as having the same significance . |