Example sentences of "[be] [vb pp] as [subord] it [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are frustrated that London Weighting has consistently been used as if it were a concession to our demands . |
| 2 | If he accepts the goods , the damages are assessed as if it were a breach of warranty , section 53 . |
| 3 | On appeal by the Crown , it was found that the Lord Ordinary had failed to give proper weight to Taxes Management Act 1970 , in particular that interest on overdue tax was to be treated as if it were tax charged and due and payable under the assessment to which it related . |
| 4 | It is not to be treated as if it were a statutory definition . |
| 5 | In other words , for this purpose , and for this purpose only , a minor was to be treated as if it were an adult . |
| 6 | It remains the law that a trade union is not , and is not to be treated as if it were , a body corporate , but a much wider measure of tort liability is now imposed by the Employment Act 1982 . |
| 7 | Each £250 or part of £250 will be treated as if it were bringing in an income of £1 a week . |
| 8 | In the case of a private company , a pre-1982 pre-emptive requirement is to be treated as if it were in its memorandum or articles so long as it remains a private company . |
| 9 | The prompt LIFESPAN Breakout will appear at the top left-hand edge of the screen and to all intents and purposes this can be treated as if it were the DCL $ prompt . |
| 10 | Section 742(8) states that for the purposes of this section any body corporate incorporated outside the United Kingdom shall be treated as if it were resident outside the United Kingdom , whether it is so resident or not . |
| 11 | The Council , said the author , should not be reported as if it was divided along party lines . |
| 12 | Consequently sport is of paramount importance to him and every event has to be approached as if it is the most demanding in his life ; failure is not easily assimilated , as a result . |
| 13 | Indeed the gallery can be seen as if it were only ( which of course it is also ) a mere technical device for the objects to be displayed . |
| 14 | Under s412(1) ( now TA 1988 , s739 ) the income which is to be taxed as if it were the taxpayer 's is income which he has power to enjoy within the meaning of the section . |
| 15 | His award may be enforced as if it were a judgment of the court , and there is a limited right of appeal from his award to the High Court on a point of law . |
| 16 | An undertakin g given by a party in person can usually be enforced as if it were an order of the court : Gandolfo v Gandolfo [ 1980 ] 1 All ER 833 . |
| 17 | It was said in the last chapter that doubtful law should not be represented as if it were well established . |
| 18 | The court rejected the argument , holding that the statute was to be read as if it were ‘ in or in the vicinity of . ’ |
| 19 | Each of the 30 rooms is arranged as if it were still in use — the Little Drawing Room was designed by Robert Adam with gilded mouldings and intricate wall paintings . |
| 20 | For the UK this means that the run-down of many sectors of manufacturing is treated as if it is unconnected with the policies of successive UK governments , with the qualities of management and the character of British trade unionism . |
| 21 | If , exceptionally , it is a relevant European institution ( see page 37 above ) , it is technically not authorised under the FSA ; however , for the purposes of s 57 it is treated as if it was ( see para 17 of Sched 9 to the Banking Co-ordination Regulations ) . |
| 22 | This means that food ‘ exported ’ ' to the Vatican ( from a Roman abattoir , say ) is treated as if it were going to a ‘ third country ’ . |
| 23 | The base contains about nine Snotlings but is treated as if it were a single large monster with several wounds and attacks . |
| 24 | Each controversial assertion is treated as if it were being made for the first time . |
| 25 | Every activity in the left-hand path is treated as if it were being undertaken for the first time . |
| 26 | In this case the relationship is treated as if it were a one-to-many relationship , but the records on the ‘ many side ’ are duplicated because each record can be related to several parents . |
| 27 | To a large extent , Bolinger 's division between those adjectives that qualify referents and those that qualify sense is presented as if it were a classification of adjectives as word types , that is , as one might find them categorized in the dictionary , thereby giving an impression that Bolinger might regard this almost as a lexical division , similar to that dividing adjectives that can qualify animates from the rest . |
| 28 | Subjective reality is treated as no less real than so-called objective reality , and what is thought , felt or imagined is recorded as if it were literally true . |
| 29 | The reason why ( 6 ) is perceived as if it was assignment is that the indefinitizing effect of the determiner means that the hearer is granted no more about the entity in post-copular position than : ( a ) The properties denoted by the noun used ; ( b ) The fact that it is an entity ; but the latter fact has already been given by the subject noun phrase ; hence the effect , with such a determiner , amounts to the same thing , in practice ( but not in terms of intensional pattern ) , as simple assignment . |
| 30 | In this vein , nationalism is described as if it were some independent ideology , strangely based upon a sense of belonging to a particular national or ethnic group , with its traditions and a so-called common history . |