Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [noun pl] as [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fact of all homes in the street having inside WCs was in itself evidence that the planners had earmarked the property as being for professional occupants as opposed to the ‘ working-man ’ . |
| 2 | With increasing concern for social problems as opposed to individual ‘ sins ’ came an increasing amount of ‘ social work ’ as opposed to individual acts of charity . |
| 3 | The Institute continued to express its opposition to Compulsory Competitive Tendering for architectural services as provided for in the Local Government Act 1992 . |
| 4 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 5 | The application captures all sensor readings in real time and stores them for 30 years as required by law . |
| 6 | At home , each patient was instructed to practice contracting the sphincter several times a day ( at least 20 times three times daily ) for 20–30 seconds as directed in conditioning sessions . |
| 7 | The Act allowed couples to petition for divorce after the first anniversary of their marriage , instead of after three years as had been upheld previously . |
| 8 | Recent information from former detainees , lawyers and human rights activists indicates that suspected political opponents of the government , including boys under 18 , have been detained in garde à vue well beyond the maximum 10-day period and without obtaining further authorization after four days as required by Tunisian law . |
| 9 | One in six will get a longer form asking 59 questions about such things as housing loans , commuting patterns and job history . |
| 10 | Both titles will have the artwork on the dust jacket repeated on the cover , so that they can be treated as ordinary paperbacks as preferred . |
| 11 | This shows clearly the weighting for individual assignments as approved by the moderators , names of students taking the area of study , student registration numbers , marks gained by students for each assignment and total marks achieved by each student expressed as a percentage mark . |
| 12 | Yet there still remains Peter Golding 's interesting finding : in the past ten years ( through such surveys as have been carried out , which are not many and with no great scientific basis ) , there has been a consistent public appreciation of social work , even though the public has equally consistently held social workers in low esteem , below teachers , doctors , and nurses . |
| 13 | This procedure is the same as for ordinary chariots as described in the Warhammer rulebook . |
| 14 | Processes designed to run outside normal working hours should therefore not be dependent upon the presence of operators for such tasks as loading tapes or attending to printers . |
| 15 | There are a number of Acts of Parliament which empower a magistrate on sworn information to issue a warrant to search for such things as stolen goods , forged documents , drugs . |
| 16 | And there is a dreadful stew of federal subsidies and tax breaks ( for such things as logging in Alaska , irrigation in California , grazing on federal land in Nevada ) that actually subsidise those engaged in making the environment worse . |
| 17 | Increasing unemployment in the cities has had all kinds of unfortunate consequences : it reduces demand for such services as retailing , while at the same time increasing pressures on public-sector provision ; and social services , housing training and education encounter increased demands for certain activities . |
| 18 | if relocation takes place during a school term , the company will reimburse day school fees for the remainder of that term or for such periods as required by the school for pupil removal . |
| 19 | Similarly in the New Forest an Act of 1697 gave statutory powers to the local ‘ Verderers ’ Court' to impose fines for such offences as stealing timber , burning the heath and destroying the covert . |
| 20 | Final responsibility for such matters as deciding on the suitability of foster homes was devolved to twelve regional committees formed to coincide with the boundaries of the government-designated defence areas . |
| 21 | ( f ) That daywork hours for such items as unloading are accurately checked . |
| 22 | A wheel designed just to go on turning , never stopping , so that for a hundred years with a hundred more to follow , she had been coming out of this cottage doorway , carrying her carpet-bag , filling her lungs with this damp , sooty air which had started to make Liam cough , reminding herself — as one simply had to do — to be thankful for such mercies as came her way , however small . |
| 23 | Options will be granted under seal and will be exercisable within a period of ten years and will entitle the recipients to acquire ordinary shares in the Company at a price determined by the Committee , being not less than the average of the middle market quotations for such shares as derived from the Daily Official List of The Stock Exchange for the three dealing days immediately preceding the date of grant or the market value ( as agreed with the Inland Revenue ) of the shares as at the date of grant ( or , in the case of new shares , their nominal value if greater ) . |
| 24 | Soldering was valuable for such purposes as attaching handles to vessels or closing the final links of chains . |
| 25 | In the short term , the Commission will concentrate its efforts largely on biomass , biofuels , energy-from-waste , wind power and small hydro power , with funds available for such purposes as drawing up national inventories on the use of renewables , creating uniformity of standards and implementing a statistical recording system . |
| 26 | This view of advanced economies as moving into a service-dominated phase , and the recent theoretical arguments about it , will be examined in Chapter 3 . |
| 27 | The existence of a firm strategy for continuing education may , in theory , preclude the need for re-entry programmes as they exist at present , and it is the job of the members of each National Board to align continuing education needs with the UKCC 's own policies regarding the maintenance and improvement of professional standards as laid down in current legislation . |
| 28 | This identifies the demographic features of geographic areas as identified by customer addresses . |
| 29 | This concern about the sovereignty of Parliament has to be seen in the context of political realities as seen by the constitutional authorities . |
| 30 | [ For attitudes of Islamic countries as expressed at Non-Aligned Movement summit see p. 39122 . ] |