Example sentences of "as [prep] [adv] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been much dispute in the British Cabinet , and among the higher ranking military , as to where this relatively small but experienced and professional army should be deployed . |
| 2 | There is doubt as to where this idea originated . |
| 3 | Opinions differ as to when this wine should be drunk . |
| 4 | Finally , as if rewarding us for our efforts , Yuri provided us with what was for us the highlight of the day — an impromptu performance ( to a disco beat ) which left us in no doubt at all as to why this tall , handsome athlete is Russia 's leading ballet super-Tsar ! |
| 5 | Some clues as to why this failed to happen lie in the campaign itself . |
| 6 | Nor is it even very suggestive ; it provides no clues as to why this first phase of class struggle is so much more advanced in Italy ( where the Communist PCI regularly obtains almost a third of the popular vote ) compared with the United States ( where a socialist party hardly exists ) . |
| 7 | The implicit assumption as to why this should be so is that questions of law are for the ordinary courts . |
| 8 | You might be curious as to why this disorder of repetition is called conduction aphasia . |
| 9 | In the concluding section we shall speculate as to why this might have been . |
| 10 | ‘ Can you give us any clue , Miss Winkelmann , as to why this protest came so late , and can you give us some indication of the form of these attempts she mentions to get her daughter back ? |
| 11 | There is no indication as to why this name was chosen but you may be interested to know that a Grizzled Skipper is a butterfly that , unlike the Grizzled Skipper card , is not at all colourful . |
| 12 | Pamella 's clock is running slow the Gloucester team were playing rough A familiar example , which actually contains an adjectival phrase rather than a single adjective , is : ( 66 ) a rose by any other name would smell as sweet With this construction , too , there is possibly a certain element of idiomatic restriction ; why for instance are the following examples unacceptable ? ( 67 ) the guide was eating gluttonous Suzanne pirouetted sensuous We may at least hazard a guess as to why this construction is fairly limited in its occurrence : there are three intensional elements in operation , the entity phrase in subject position , the property which is to be instantiated by the verb and as a third item a property that can be expressed either by an adjective or by its adverb competitor ; now where the lexical meanings are such that there would be an appreciable difference in the effect of applying the third property to the entity of the subject by contrast with the effect of using it to qualify the property of the verb ( which is the case in ( 53 ) by contrast with ( 54 ) ) then intuitive awareness that there is going to be a difference may generally allow the construction with the adjective to be available . |
| 13 | There 's no indication yet as to why this one has crashed |
| 14 | Many theories have been advanced as to why this should be so , but the most vital one overlooked . |
| 15 | ‘ There are 1,001 possibilities as to why this accident happened and it would be pure speculation to say at this stage what could have caused it . |
| 16 | The aim is to present a brief overview of what is happening to historic pubs today , and to provide suggestions as to how this perceived threat to our old pubs can be effectively limited . |
| 17 | However , Lilford gives no indication as to how this preselection might work . |
| 18 | But the materialistic view has no idea as to how this dynamic complexity in form and function comes into being and is maintained . |
| 19 | PLEASE CHECK WITH YOUR DOCTOR AS TO HOW THIS WILL BE DONE . |
| 20 | As for the ruck/maul law , which seems to have excited some heated debate , we are quite clear as to how this should be refereed . |
| 21 | The question then arises as to how this pragmatic enterprise differs , if it differs at all , from the kinds of activity which are customarily carried out under the name of research . |
| 22 | The presidential year does cost the individual money ; if it is decided that one 's partner goes to dinners then this comes out of the individual 's pocket and is not subsidised , at least in my case , by anyone else , and it is entirely a matter of personal choice as to how this part of the arrangements is made . |
| 23 | My report on this tour concluded with the words : ‘ I shall be grateful for any suggestions as to how this Department may co-operate in helping to meet the desperately urgent situation that is about to develop in the Delta villages . ’ |
| 24 | If the claim that they all legitimate the existing order is to be more than a dogma it must be refined , and Althusser 's work offers no suggestion as to how this is to be done . |
| 25 | Do the cases give any more concrete guidance as to how this discretion might be exercised ? |
| 26 | Although the White paper states the importance of the informal sector there are few concrete proposals as to how this will develop . |
| 27 | There is then a theological question posed for one who takes the feminist agenda seriously and believes in human equality , as to how this revelation can be a revelation of God . |
| 28 | There has never been any certainty as to how this other writing can be classified , whether as " factual " , " non-creative " , " project " or " topic " writing . |
| 29 | El Salvador has one of the highest percentages of women sterilized in the world and the question is raised as to how this has come about . |
| 30 | we do n't need it because w we we 're confused A , as to how this suddenly gets |