Example sentences of "[prep] [noun prp] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police , who routinely bend the rules in black areas , portray the youth of Brixton as doing the same , acting as if they were ‘ above the law ’ because of special measures designed to protect them from the consequences of their illegal actions — a fairly apt description of the police 's own position until very recently . |
| 2 | The principle of Parliamentary sovereignty means neither more nor less than this , namely , that Parliament thus defined has , under the English constitution , the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognised by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . |
| 3 | Parliamentary sovereignty , he wrote , meant that Parliament had " the right to make or unmake any law whatever ; and , further , that no person or body is recognized by the law of England as having a right to override or set aside the legislation of Parliament . " |
| 4 | For it was the general election of 1931 which so drastically altered the balance of parties in the House of Commons as to give the politics of the 1930s its special character . |
| 5 | The Evil One is seen after St Gregory of Nazianzus as having no rights at all — on the contrary he is seen as a robber and a liar who stole the world from God and who holds humanity as captives in bondage to their own sin and his influence and power . |
| 6 | The HDUR condemned the attitude of Vatra as signalling the " threat of civil war " , and urged restraint when deaths and injuries occurred during ethnic clashes in the Transylvanian city of Tirgu Mures , 260 km north-west of Bucharest , in March [ see p. 37321 ] . |
| 7 | However , for reasons to be examined presently , he regarded the subsequent proceedings before the House of Lords as leaving the court ‘ powerless ’ to take the matter further . |
| 8 | For him this convenience has been largely a negative factor for he thought of America as offering no other comparable diversion ; there were ‘ no beer gardens — no public concerts ’ and the question he asked was ‘ Who wants to sit at home and play bridge every night ? ’ |
| 9 | Investment business is defined in paragraph 1(2) of FSA as meaning the business of engaging in one or more of the activities which fall within the paragraphs in Part II of Schedule 1 of FSA ( ‘ Investment Business ’ ) and which are not specifically excluded by Part III of Schedule 1 ( ‘ Excluded Activities ’ ) . |
| 10 | It was also rejected by the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet in Moscow as contravening the Soviet constitution . |
| 11 | Itar-Tass news agency later quoted the defence ministry in Moscow as saying the report was groundless . |
| 12 | Tass also quoted the Georgian embassy in Moscow as saying the plane was an Il-29 of the Confederation of Highland Nations , which groups small ethnic groups in the Caucasus and supports Abkhazia in the conflict . |
| 13 | Interfax news agency quoted the Russian defence ministry in Moscow as confirming the air strike on ‘ military targets ’ in Sukhumi . |
| 14 | Ophiopristis differs from Ophioprium as follows the oral tentacle scales are not markedly different from the oral papillae — those of Ophioprium are much more elongate and slightly separated ; the tentacle pores are smaller and armed with 1–2 large tentacle scales whereas the pores in Ophioprium are open and armed with small thin tentacle scales . |
| 15 | This would almost certainly be seen in Britain as constituting an infringement of private property rights . |
| 16 | While Jamie is regarded in Hollywood as having the perfect body , Emma adopts a no-nonsense approach to acting that keeps the work flooding in . |
| 17 | A Christian position must necessarily hold of this human being Jesus that he existed ( or exists ) in relation to God as has no other . |
| 18 | That 's been er er a matter which has been erm discussed er at some length by Stragg as has the topic of er house building and the the problems of er capacity for er new house instruction and other development within the , the Council but a number of erm matters er not least of which has been er the departure of two key members of staff during the period er there has er I 'm afraid been a degree of slippage and the original programme that we have put to you and which you agreed which we said at the time was ambitious er is already er showing signs of stress and it looks now I 'm afraid that it will not be er in the early part of the summer that the structure plan in draft form will be available and ready to be approved for consultation purposes , but towards the end of the summer and er er into the early autumn . |
| 19 | One of the leading dancers with the Ballet Club , she is described by Luyt as having a brilliant technique , and he says she ‘ was compact and a dream to do double-work with , and was fearless in trying out death-defying lifts ’ . |
| 20 | The restitution was described by Klaus as accelerating the re-establishment of a property-owning entrepreneurial middle class . |
| 21 | Turning to the conduct of investment business by solicitors , the Society 's second yearly report was accepted by SIB as representing the satisfactory discharge of the Society 's obligations as a recognised professional body . |
| 22 | The emotional quality of the game experience has been characterised by Vygotsky as having a dual affect . |