Example sentences of "to what it [verb] as " in BNC.

  Next page
No Sentence
1 In Westland Helicopters v. The Arab Organisation for Industrialisation ; the United Arab Emirates ; the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ; the State of Qatar ; the Arab Republic of Egypt ; and the Arab British Helicopter Company , Egypt as a dissenting member took other steps in response to what it saw as the wrongful dissolution of the Organisation by the other member States .
2 The BIP refused to join the committee , and objected to what it saw as the more militant tactics advocated by the BNF .
3 The UK government reacted angrily to what it saw as an unwarranted interference in the affairs of the colony on June 18 , when Guo Fengmin , the Chinese senior official on the Sino-British Joint Liaison group , said at the close of the 23rd Liaison Group meeting in Beijing that the Chinese side would find unacceptable the appointment of any members of the United Democrats of Hong Kong ( UDHK ) to the Executive Council .
4 In the recent decision of Murphy v. Brentwood DC [ 1990 ] 2 All ER 908 , the House of Lords has put an end to what it described as the ‘ uncertainty ’ created by Lord Wilberforce 's wide principle by using the 1966 Practice Statement to overrule Anns .
5 The parliamentary chairman , Ruslan Khasbulatov , has accused the media of bias and yesterday the parliament kept up its barrage of complaints against the media , saying television programmes closed the eyes of viewers to what it described as the anti-constitutional nature of the president 's seizure of new powers .
6 It therefore found itself in opposition to what it regarded as the stupidity , incompetence and prejudice of the actual holders of political and economic power .
7 The ANC had earlier resisted a meeting with Inkatha on the grounds that this would lend undue national legitimacy to what it regarded as a Zulu organization with a power base confined largely to Natal province .
8 The Lombardy League advocated effective autonomy for the region , and an end to what it regarded as the squandering of locally created wealth by central government .
9 The US also objects to what it sees as an open-ended commitment to fund biodiversity protection in developing countries .
  Next page