Example sentences of "as oppose to [art] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leicestershire is the only county to account for its distributions from the TCCB on a cash as opposed to an accruals basis . |
| 2 | This is because the repayment of tax is treated as being made in respect of the accounting period in which the surplus ACT arose ( as opposed to the periods in which it was offset ) ( s 825(4) ( a ) ) . |
| 3 | In the end , Colin had to develop a strength of character , of steel , as opposed to the others , who did n't develop . |
| 4 | It is the quality that characterizes biological objects as opposed to the objects of physics . |
| 5 | In language use ( as opposed to the drills of formal language practice ) we almost always have some sort of knowledge about the senders or receivers of the discourse . |
| 6 | Likewise , it was common ground that faulty administration contemplated the procedures by which decisions are made as opposed to the merits of the decisions . |
| 7 | The plan called for the reunification of " Administrative Beirut " ( i.e. central Beirut as opposed to the suburbs ) , the withdrawal of all militias from the city and the integration of Aoun 's troops into Hrawi 's army , commanded by Gen. Emile Lahud . |
| 8 | Their dream is that many business PC users — as opposed to the scientists and engineers who usually buy workstations — will ‘ trade up ’ when they realise just how speedily such machines can crunch numbers . |
| 9 | The bit about odd jeans was totally accurate , by the way ; Cousin Josh made his fortune firstly by dealing in cars , then by risking all on a jeans company which at the time was tottering on the very hem of bankruptcy ; under Josh 's regime , their jeans were n't any better or any cheaper than anybody else 's , but he had the garments made in odd sizes ; waists of 29 , 31 , 33 inches , and so on , as opposed to the products from all other companies , domestic and foreign , which tended to favour the even numbers . |
| 10 | His cases were apt to be commonplace affairs , or at least to begin as such , as opposed to the affairs of state that occupied Holmes in his latter years , and where Holmes was tall and hawk-faced Hewitt was stoutish , of average height and had a round , smiling face . |
| 11 | yeah I 'd give them are , I 'd put my money with you people as opposed to the companies . |
| 12 | The delicious pork and goose rillettes and rillons of Western France are also close relations of English potted meats — in other words cooked and shredded or pounded meat packed into pots after cooking , as opposed to the pâtés and terrines which are made from raw ingredients cooked directly in the pots or the crust in which they are to be stored and served . |
| 13 | So the work remains , in some sense , circular : but what is more important to our understanding of the poem , as opposed to the misadventures of the poet , is that there has also been a change of genre . |
| 14 | There was a tremendous release of tension , particularly for the people , the women who had been permanent workers as opposed to the students . |
| 15 | An attempt to identify those social properties which pertain to objects as artefacts , for example , as opposed to the properties of words as discovered by linguists , or dreams as discovered by psychologists , can only be achieved through a balance between two procedures . |
| 16 | Accuracy of language was crucial when your life was at risk and each use of ‘ Loyalist ’ , when applied to the Protestant equivalents of the IRA , had been to Trent , a Catholic himself by birth , an insult to the Catholic community of whom the vast majority were as opposed to the evils of terrorism as they were to the injustices of long-practised prejudice on which Irish terrorism bred . |
| 17 | The only heavy defeat was at Newington , who were playing their ninth match in six weeks , as opposed to the tourists , who were commencing their season . |
| 18 | First , we will need to consider the relative merits of selling the assets of the business as opposed to the shares . |
| 19 | The debate which followed Hartog 's motion took the form of a " heated controversy " over the relative merits of grammar , philology , and literary detail as opposed to the contents of great works . |
| 20 | I must remind her that , to judge by the performance of the last Labour Government as opposed to the promises of the present Labour Opposition , Londoners can look forward only to cuts in the investment required . |
| 21 | Marvell is so much taken with the love he has of nature he even proposes to cut out the names of the trees in their own bark , as opposed to the names of lovers . |
| 22 | Both the main groups in Viktring , the Slovenes and the Serbs , were also anxious to make clear to the British that , despite having arrived under the command of a German colonel , they were not " collaborators " and did not regard themselves as opposed to the Allies . |
| 23 | Well Chemistry of course is , is traditionally much easier in many ways than English or some other subjects , and this reflects the esteem held amongst schoolteachers and students of the sciences as opposed to the arts . |
| 24 | These traps were known as putchers , a small basket with a large weave designed specifically for salmon , as opposed to the Kipes at Purton , huge baskets with a five foot diameter mouth and a small weave , designed to catch anything . |
| 25 | In the 1830s the total number of European military officers serving in India amounted to only 4,487 , of whom 752 were serving in the royal army , as opposed to the regiments in the Company 's employ , thus reducing the total to a mere 3,735 . |
| 26 | ( 8 ) For the expenses of members of boards as opposed to the expenses of the boards themselves , see 5.3 . |
| 27 | The computer business in Japan is unusual in that most software writing is done by people who use computers , as opposed to the manufacturers of the machines . |
| 28 | Improvements to rented property may raise rents to the detriment of the producers as opposed to the landowners . |