Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | increase agreement reached at the end of June , 1973 , and if it be right to regard this as having been reached under a kind of duress in the form of economic pressure , then what is said in Chitty on Contracts ( 24th ed. ) , para. 442 , to which both counsel referred me , is relevant , namely that a contract entered into under duress is voidable and not void |
| 2 | The ideal osmotic control for ethanol is distilled water and not hypertonic glucose or saline as has been used in some studies . |
| 3 | In whatever way it is financed , such investment is regarded by some as having been a direct loss to the domestic economy and as such having contributed to Britain 's poor investment record [ Singh , 1977 ] . |
| 4 | The protest was signed by among others , eight of the 10 deputies who had been named on March 22 as having been StB collaborators [ see p. 38107 ] , although not by Jan Kavan . |
| 5 | For this reason it may not be correct to relate thermodynamic quantities obtained from one cooling curve to those obtained by another as has been pointed out by Gee ( 1966 ) . |
| 6 | Critics argue that if the probe should explode on lift-off or veer off course and re-enter Earth 's atmosphere , the batteries could be pulverised , dispersing 260,000 curies of radioactive waste — more than half as much as has been released in all nuclear tests . |
| 7 | 4.4 As has been stated , the principles of assessment are the same for both categories . |
| 8 | STEFFI GRAF 'S hopes of defending her Wimbledon title have improved after doctors revealed that her foot injury was not as serious as had been feared . |
| 9 | The growing numbers of underemployed middle- or upper-class women , for whom unpaid charitable work was one of the very few socially acceptable occupations , supplied a willing and almost endless supply of volunteers for such activity , such as has been available at no other period of British history . |
| 10 | That they make it sound as natural as breathing is something of an accomplishment . |
| 11 | It would seem , however , that the demand for gift delivery of hardback books at a charge of £4.99 ( plus the price of the book , of course ) was not as great as had been hoped . |
| 12 | Members of the House of Commons ' Environment select committee have concluded that the rate of destruction of Brazilian rainforest is not as great as has been reported . |
| 13 | Car-sharing has received a recent boost since the petrol price increases ; owners are able to share petrol costs without endangering their insurance policies as long as sharing is on a non-profit basis . |
| 14 | As long as lungeing is not over-used , it is an invaluable aid to training . |
| 15 | The effect of this change has not been as dramatic as had been feared . |
| 16 | Dramatic as imprinting is as a form of learning , it suffered from my point of view from the problem that for a bird to become imprinted requires exposing it to the stimulus , the flashing light or whatever , for a couple of hours ; memory builds up slowly over that time , and so the cellular changes that are going on during the period inevitably intermingle the effects of learning and of visual stimulation with those of memory formation . |
| 17 | Unless , therefore the guarantee was void as having been made for an illegal consideration or voidable on the ground of economic duress , the extrinsic evidence establishes that it was supported by valid consideration . |
| 18 | To begin with , the first draft regulations were not received until July 1987 instead of March 1987 as had been first intimated by the DHSS . |
| 19 | Sitting by her bedroom window later that night , Laura lectured herself for having been so naïve as to have been upset by the remarks he had originally made on the dance-floor . |
| 20 | Recent work on the interwar period has disputed that the plight of the peasantry even at this difficult time was as disastrous as has been claimed . |
| 21 | From this standpoint it may be doubted whether the present image of nationalism is quite so unfavourable as has been claimed . |
| 22 | Its understood that announcement is not as imminent as has been suggested . |
| 23 | Indeed , some people have suggested that it was so difficult as to have been impossible , but this is to underestimate the intelligence and ingenuity of our forebears . |
| 24 | Another unexpected disappearance from the scene was that of the defence minister himself , Adnan Khairallah , the President 's cousin , reported early in 1989 as having been dismissed and later to have died in a helicopter crash . |
| 25 | I think in fact what I would like in particular from the local planning authorities around the table is given Mr Donson 's view that E two as drafted is more restrictive than national guidance P P G seven or any other P P G , what is it in North Yorkshire that justifies that departure from national guidance . |
| 26 | In fact , however , our knowledge here is not so deficient as has been imagined . |
| 27 | The cuts , although severe , were not as drastic as had been expected . |
| 28 | These results are important for plate tectonic theory because they show that the Earth is not currently expanding as has been suggested by a small minority of earth scientists , at least not at a rate which is significant compared with rates of plate motion . |
| 29 | Den Bosch , Netherlands-based Tulip Computers NV reported a loss — the first in its history — of about $8m for 1992 , and said it is cutting out the dividend , but the shares improved about 8% after the company said that it expected better 1993 results — and the loss was not as bad as had been feared : analysts had seen a loss of as much as $13m . |
| 30 | The whole scope of the present duty set out in the Education Act 1944 as amended is retained . |