Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [verb] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Parents whose children were absent for reasons regarded as illegitimate by the school , can seek to avoid confrontation by providing explanations which the school would approve of ( ‘ Amy was absent because she had a stomach upset ’ , for instance ) rather than provide the real reason . |
| 2 | It 's a great place for beginners to learn as the harbour has shallow water — only 40ft at its deepest point — with constant winds and protection from being swept out to sea . |
| 3 | Government grants were available in cases where rail would keep lorries off roads regarded as sensitive . |
| 4 | In return , Vietnam would adopt a number of new measures to facilitate the US search for servicemen listed as missing in action ( MIA ) during the Vietnam War . |
| 5 | Adult prisons ( for those aged 21 or over ) are divided into ‘ local ’ prisons , which receive people from the courts , whether on remand or at the start of a sentence ( and where short sentences may be served in their entirety ) ; closed ‘ training ’ prisons of which Maidstone is one , and ‘ open ’ prisons , which have a minimum of security and are for prisoners perceived as posing no real risk to the public . |
| 6 | Midland Bank is giving £5,000 first prize , £3,000 second prize and £2,000 third prize ( all tax-free ) for winners to invest as they choose . |
| 7 | They are initially held in isolation cells for periods lasting as long as several months . |
| 8 | A number of reasons exist as to why companies run funded schemes . |
| 9 | Markets become more complex when not only price , quality and image affect the purchasing decision but other considerations such as the environmental compatibility of products do as well . |
| 10 | A knowledge of the working of a solicitor 's office , particularly er o of those departments handling non-contentious business , can not be automatically imputed to the judge or to council and he may as well make it is not uncommon for an expert witness to give evidence of what he would have done in a particular situation after consideration and er I resign on that because in my submission er the issues in this case are clearly issues of mixed fact and law and my Lord it is seen from the report handed up that there is particularly in relation to the erm financial aspect of the case , reference to a provision within a professional conduct of solicitors guide as to what the nature of the er duties of the solicitor in the situation is . |
| 11 | Their abolition marked the beginnings of an enormous growth in the number of titles published as well as a reduction in cover prices : in 1855 , most of the metropolitan dailies were priced at 5d , by 1870 prices ranged from ½d to 3d , with one at 4d . |
| 12 | Drawings of objects published as research data for use by archaeologists frequently incorporate an element of reconstruction , but this should he clearly distinguishable from the surviving portions of the object . |
| 13 | At adult level , for instance , a collection of objects identified as lorry , car , car and bicycle , might be sorted in many different ways . |
| 14 | In 1972 the number of houses used as second homes in Britain as a whole was estimated at 372000 , but it is believed that this number has declined in recent years due to the inflation in house prices since that date . |
| 15 | Reference to our theory as outlined in an earlier section of this chapter would suggest that the next most important item to be isolated in an account is the set of rules regarded as operative in each distinct situation . |
| 16 | Lots of oneliners flowed as the professional polish of a top-rate comedian shone through . |
| 17 | I heard many a rumour in Suffolk pubs of Germans dressed as British soldiers turning up on the shoreline , and I found locals who insisted that Churchill had visited the area in November 1943 and inspected some American bomber bases . |
| 18 | In patients with raised serum aminotransferase concentrations , 91–100% of cases detected as positive on second generation immunoassays are confirmed by recombinant immunoblot assay irrespective of the ratio . |
| 19 | Once again the miracle of the taxis of the Marne was repeated ; this time in Paris the price of vegetables doubled as one by one the civilian camions disappeared off the streets . |
| 20 | The number of mutations increased as the parents became more alike . |
| 21 | This project will examine the records of Extents of Debt in the Public record office in London , which relate to a group of merchants identified as being based in Yorkshire . |
| 22 | In Britain it is possible for an educational institution to obtain a licence to record a very limited range of programmes categorised as educational . |
| 23 | Being mostly confined to Buckinghamshire , the handful of parsons reported as having no personal property serve as much as anything to highlight doubts about the approach to clerical assessments there . |
| 24 | A glorious red butterfly with sapphire blue eyes on its wingtips fluttered and curtsied in front of me , moorland sheep scuttled reluctantly off the track as I ploughed towards them and a group of walkers cursed as they struggled up the bank . |
| 25 | Leaf crowns consisting of rows of papillae occurring as fringes round the rim of the buccal capsule ( external leaf crowns ) or just inside the rim ( internal leaf crowns ) . |
| 26 | The Mongolian Religious Democratic Party , chaired by Tserengiyn Bayarsuren , was founded in late June [ for list of parties registered as of May 1990 see p. 37454 ] . |
| 27 | At the lexical level the frame of discernment consists of words expressed as ordered sets of phonemes . |
| 28 | However , closer examination shows that the large number of clients classified as having ‘ unknown , economic activity lessens the impact of the information and emphasises the difficulty of extracting the relevant data from them . |
| 29 | She heard the sound of twigs cracking as Bridget came up behind her . |
| 30 | Many deserted before the battle even started , and a number of nobles surrendered as soon as they could decently do so . |