Example sentences of "[adj] as [verb] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Armstrong and McGee see this as contributing to the growth of countries with more industrialised centres and the decline of the smaller republics , thus intensifying regional disparities ( Armstrong and McGee 1985 ) . |
| 2 | The total Community Charge arrears at 31 March 1993 as reported to the Council were £148m which represents over 10% of the total liabilities for the 4 years of Community Charge . |
| 3 | The price must be clearly legible to a prospective purchaser and clearly identifiable as referring to the goods in question . |
| 4 | The amount of cortex given over to the central as opposed to the peripheral visual field can differ , as can the size of receptive fields of cells within the area . |
| 5 | It 's called the unitary authority the new one would be and I think suggestion is that the city would go separate as opposed to the county . |
| 6 | On the other hand , I sat in my New York hotel room for a good five hours ' Bloomingdale-spending time watching Sex Lies and Videotape , The Fabulous Baker Boys and Sea of Love without so much as moving to the fridge to flex a buttock muscle of my own . |
| 7 | A two-berth InterCity Sleeper cabin is offered for £25 until May 10 as opposed to the usual £50 if two people travel ; single travellers still have to pay £25 per berth unless they buy two rail tickets . |
| 8 | whether it caused an actual as opposed to a potential obstruction as quoted in Evans v Barker [ 1971 ] RTR 453 . |
| 9 | It is clearly too soon to measure the actual as opposed to the estimated economic pay-off . |
| 10 | It would not entitle the buyer to reject all other instalments unless the seller 's breach was so serious as to amount to a repudiation of the contract ( see paragraph 11–08 below ) . |
| 11 | It 's simply the reason it was done that way was to reflect a County Council decision which had been taken fairly recent times on the route of an outer as opposed to an inner . |
| 12 | In short , what is the mark of the moral as opposed to the immoral ? |
| 13 | But the refuges of a mindless artistry which represents what is human as opposed to the social mechanism are being relentlessly hunted down by a schematic reason which compels everything to prove its significance and effect . |
| 14 | TRYING to talk to civil servants was as hard as talking to the man from Reader 's Digest ( see above ) . |
| 15 | Thus we can see the expanded negative reproduction appearing , as Bukharin posited. if we compare the progress of the schemas above with the results if g' had continued at 0.1 we should find that in PP4 W = 23,958 as opposed to the actual 19,073 . |
| 16 | Samuel argued strongly and persuasively in favour of a National as opposed to a purely Conservative Government , and considerably influenced a receptive King . |
| 17 | As one of Nonconformity 's most severe but incisive critics observed , ‘ powerful influences have intervened to elevate the corporate as opposed to the individualist aspect of dissent ’ . |
| 18 | In another case the court upheld an elector 's right to see council documents ( a statutory right without qualification , as here ) unless his request ‘ was so oppressive as to amount to an abuse of the right ’ . |
| 19 | But the misunderstanding of the beasts and their characteristics in the north east — especially of the placidity demanded by the Orphic theme — coupled with a radial as opposed to a concentric circular structure , does not suggest any direct , physical links between the mosaicists of the two regions . |
| 20 | In these circumstances , it is , in my judgment , impossible to regard the arrangements which Twogates made on 19 October 1984 as amounting to a re-entry under the … lease . |
| 21 | The fact that the country has become a major exporter means a boost to the balance of payments of something over £7 billion per year in 1984 as opposed to a debit of some £4 billion ten years ago . |
| 22 | Long famous as recruits to the British Gurkha regiments , the Gurungs are facing the challenges of increasing population , soil erosion , rapid westernization and other pressures . |
| 23 | So you 've had a sharp increase in our shareholders ' funds during the six months and a reduction in our net debt which may not be quite as er substantial as you expected but it is the combination of on the one hand the proceeds of Elsivir less some reinvestment which Frank mentioned , we put a little more money in B S B and the minority interests and we do have traditionally in the first half an adverse net movement of funds from operation about ninety five million and then we had thirty two million odd er of simply revaluation as a result of translating our dollar debt at er the one sixty as opposed to the year ending rate . |
| 24 | Her slogan is : ‘ we aim to create the arts as a service for the many as opposed to a luxury for the few ’ . |
| 25 | At common law it may be unlawful as amounting to a trespass to the highway , or a public or private nuisance , or as involving the inducement or procuring of a breach of contract . |
| 26 | In his work , theoretically relying both on Freudianism and on variations of Parsonian functionalism , which sees the biological , egalitarian family as the culmination of the modernising process , he argues that the rise in illegitimacy can be traced to a change in the attitude towards sex of lower-class women , a change so great as to amount to a sexual revolution . |
| 27 | But between the practice of the two , the difference of degree is so great as to amount to a difference in kind . |
| 28 | Did the accused intend that the period of his keeping the machinery would be so long as to amount to an outright taking ? |
| 29 | Yet he is included quite correctly on the Bayeux memorial to the missing as belonging to the S.A.S. By some error , however , his name is omitted altogether from the Edinburgh University war memorial under the arches of the Old Quad , where daily we used to meet . |
| 30 | Whether or not the Association regarded the method of debt collection adopted by London Manhattan 's Smelly Tramps Ltd as conforming to the highest ethical standards , it apparently had a high success rate . |