Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | One obvious possibility here is to regard the union Parliament as representative of all parties and thus as empowered to vary the terms of union — nothing more than a rationalisation of its sovereignty . |
| 2 | A strong wind chased the rain over their heads and away as they approached , and the trees tossing beside the walls made the outline of the huge house appear to tremble , as if it might roll over and crush all the homes of the people who depended on it . |
| 3 | Both Margaret Thatcher and James Callaghan , for instance , had worked their way up through the structure of party ; they had spent a lifetime in politics and had served long periods of apprenticeship , first as backbenchers and then as junior ministers , ministers and shadow cabinet members . |
| 4 | Britain , however , had fought to impede European agreements requiring catalytic converters on cars and even as London 's traffic slowed to pre-First World War speeds , planned to build vast new roads and to cut rail services . |
| 5 | For him , there is not enough room in life for anything but one-to-one relationships and then as now , Niki has always been better in such relationships than in the goings-on of a board or a team . |
| 6 | As Jack and his friends grow older their pace necessarily slows a little but there is still an impetuous tone about their exploits as lieutenants , commanders and even as admirals , and their courtships as well as their warmongering are still basically ‘ fun ’ . |
| 7 | Very broadly , what happens is that the budgeted amounts of expenditure are credited to appropriation accounts and then as expenditure is incurred debits are set against these credits . |
| 8 | Yeah he got trapped in a car park and he could n't get out for ages and ages and then as he got out he crashed into another car . |
| 9 | We acknowledge that your role as advisers to the proposed sale of part or all of the company is as agent for the shareholders and not as auditors . |
| 10 | During the course of the fieldwork under discussion here , they were used principally as a means of access to user groups and also as foils for cross-checking general data provided by other informants . |
| 11 | ( 2 ) Forthwith upon receipt of any Transfer Notice the Company shall procure the Auditors for the time being of the Company ( acting as experts and not as arbitrators ) to certify the Prescribed Price . |
| 12 | ( 2 ) Forthwith upon receipt of any Transfer Notice the Company shall procure the Auditors for the time being of the Company ( acting as experts and not as arbitrators ) to certify the Prescribed Price . |
| 13 | The articles of association say that the value will be fixed by the company 's auditors acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and there is no other way to arrive at the figure which follows the requirements of the constitution of the company . |
| 14 | The words used also usually say that the auditors are to act as experts and not as arbitrators , and the commercial tradition is that they should not be arbitrators . |
| 15 | All the accountants in the case were said to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators , and the determination was to be final and binding for all purposes . |
| 16 | In Arenson v Casson Beckman Rutley & Co [ 1975 ] 3 WLR 815 an agreement provided that shares in a private company had to be sold back to the plaintiff 's uncle on the plaintiff leaving the business ; the price of the shares was to be the fair value as determined by the company 's auditors , whose valuation acting as experts and not as arbitrators was to be final and binding on all parties . |
| 17 | Why do the parties provide that the auditors " shall be considered to be acting as experts and not as arbitrators " ? |
| 18 | Clear seems to be all the rage in the US these days , what with Miller Brewing coming out with a beer that not only tastes watered , but actually looks like water , a Clear Tab from the Coca Cola Co and Pepsico pushing something called Pepsi Crystal , so it 's nice to see that IBM Corp being right up there with the trend — enter one of those hallowed and long-standing computer rooms these days and like as not you 'll be able to see right across it with no Big Iron to impede the view — the transparent mainframe . |
| 19 | Clear seems to be all the rage these days , what with Miller Brewing coming out with a beer that not only tastes watered , but actually looks like water , a Clear Tab from the Coca Cola Co and Pepsi Co pushing something called Pepsi Crystal , so it 's nice to see that IBM Corp is right up there with the trend — enter one of those hallowed and long-standing computer rooms these days and like as not you 'll be able to see right across it with no Big Iron to impede the view — the transparent mainframe . |
| 20 | The Board gave FGD costs as the increased cost of generating electricity at particular stations and not as that delivered to the consumer in electricity prices . |
| 21 | In addition , Iraq viewed Kuwait as having gradually eaten away patches of Iraqi territory in the border area between them over the years and also as draining reserves from part of Iraq 's South Rumailah oilfield which straddled the frontier . |
| 22 | If all the statutory conditions are satisfied , the shareholder is treated as disposing of his shares for capital gains tax purposes and not as receiving a distribution , and this treatment is mandatory . |
| 23 | They were especially prone to liver problems , mostly seen as enlargements and sometimes as whitish spots . |
| 24 | They have since left and had families and now as I am retiring they are all back . |
| 25 | The operations management data are largely those given by companies in their annual report and accounts , with the difference that they were collected directly from company executives and not as published for the benefit of shareholders . |
| 26 | Additionally , only the most senior officers in an authority ( not all principal officers and above as Widdicombe proposed ) will be banned from being members of other main councils or being active politically . |
| 27 | Software Developers Kits will be licensed as source code or binary through Unix Labs , binary through its OEM customers and directly as either from Bristol . |
| 28 | Stornoway Castle is almost hidden by a forest of ageing trees and maybe as well , for it is in a boarded up state just recently implemented . |
| 29 | In addition , although many residents own their mobile homes or caravans , sites are usually only rented , and local authorities and site owners remain as landlords and sometimes as notoriously poor ones . |
| 30 | FIVE children lying bloody and broken in the road below a high tenement window in Glasgow helped substantially reinforce ambulanceman Jack Kirkland 's belief that his colleagues should be treated as dedicated professionals and not as cab drivers . |