Example sentences of "an [noun sg] [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | But of course the problems are with this contract that it would n't suit everybody , one because you 've got no access for the ten years , you 've bought the contract up front , and if you want access to it , it 's very limited and of course if you cash an endowment early as we know it 'd damage the , the er the income sorry the , the growth at the end of the plan . |
| 2 | Well this would be the ideal opportunity to look at that because obviously planning now for the future gives you an opportunity just as you 've done with your maxi-endowment |
| 3 | oh I came , came to several conclusions , erm , one , one of the problems that the article faced me with , if it had been a simple outburst , if , if the , the Daily Telegraph had simply taken an advert out as opposed to maybe editorials then I may of had less a problem , because the problem with editorials is that they are believed , companies adverts are n't believed , well they 're partially believed , but an editorial carries a lot more weight and therefore when it 's written like that it tends to strike home much harder , therefore that , my immediate thoughts were that if were going to react , if we were going to find a way of cantering the problems we felt this had created , then we would not have to follow any normal course of action , we simply could n't put an advert out because nobody would have believed it , we would have to look at it a different way of actually cantering and that 's part of the reason for the time taking to think it through . |
| 4 | Against this decision the applicant sought and obtained leave to appeal to Her Majesty in Council , but since there was an issue both as to the jurisdiction of the Court of Appeal to hear the appeal from Barnett J. , and as to the power of that court to grant onward leave , the applicant also applied to Barnett J. himself for leave to appeal direct . |
| 5 | However , in most circumstances the right decision will be to go ahead and at this point the PRO must , as honestly as possible , judge the merits of his company 's case and , if necessary , suggest ways in which the company might modify its stance on an issue so as to reduce its vulnerability . |
| 6 | out in an anguish sharp as cracking bones |
| 7 | Ganymede was beloved by ZEUS , who assumed the guise of an eagle so as to spirit him up to Olympus ; there he was given immortality and became the gods ' cup-bearer , responsible for giving them their daily draught of the Elixir of Life . |
| 8 | ‘ I am two months ’ pregnant and need to get an abortion quickly as I 'm going to a big bash next week with my boy-friend . ’ |
| 9 | Whereas Nepmen were already flourishing in Kursk guberniia , they could not yet arise here in an area where as the Indian civil servant observed , rich and poor peasants alike were afflicted . |
| 10 | There was no reason in terms of a a , a military position why you should n't have introduced land reform in , in the way that going through and you are moving into an area where as we 've seen landlordism was at its |
| 11 | Thirdly , in order eventually to control the pollutant emissions in an area so as to achieve the air quality standards , an inventory of current emissions from the various sources is needed . |
| 12 | A ton of wheat is an asset just as is a house . |
| 13 | Speaking of himself in the second person and now deploying the phallic innuendo of tongue as well as sword , Vitelli presents masculine sexuality as spectacle , again demanding and needing the confirmation of his masculinity by an audience even as he conceives his masculinity in terms of spontaneous , self-generating desire and autonomous honour . |
| 14 | So in other words it 's about an introduction an expansion and an end Now as I 've said tomorrow I 'll fill in a bit more detail on those so if you leave some some gaps there between those three sections . |
| 15 | Like certain other ‘ women 's language features ’ , such as qualifiers , intensifiers , hesitations and so on , tags are hedging structures which qualify the force of an assertion so as not to intimidate , offend or exclude other points of view . |
| 16 | scientist applies mathematical and statistical formulae to models of an inventory so as to produce data on which buying and stockholding decisions can be taken . |
| 17 | He was an administrator now as well as a detective , so that in the morning he had a report to write , two interviews to conduct , while in the afternoon he must drive to central London to attend a committee . |
| 18 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |