Example sentences of "as [prep] [Wh det] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No mention about the difficult task that the County Council 's got in living within a budget , a capping level of three hundred and seventy million , and it would be reasonable , in in a , in a , in a sense that when somebody 's proposing opposition to a budget , it gives some indication as to what within the budget , would have to be cut . |
| 2 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 3 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 4 | Unfortunately many modern anthropologists are very vague as to which of these different objections they are making when they object to ‘ evolutionism ’ in general . |
| 5 | The Assemblies never approved military intervention in Lebanon ; the small contingent of Libyan troops there was said to consist of volunteers , and the decision as to which of the groups within Lebanon they should support seems to have been reserved to Qaddafi . |
| 6 | Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt . |
| 7 | Centred on one Sir Colenso Rigeon , a caricature of Wright , it concerned the decision as to which of the two men should be saved from death — a sixpenny doctor ( ’ an honest decent man , but is he any use ? ’ ) or a scoundrel of an artist ( ’ a rotten background , but he 's a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good things ’ ) . |
| 8 | To the non-specialist there seems little doubt as to which of these theories provides the correct explanation . |
| 9 | In the case of Irish union the pre-existing parliaments are nowhere expressly abolished ; on the other hand , it is nowhere stated , or implied of necessity , in any of the union legislation , that one of the pre-existing parliaments was continued under a new style and , indeed , if this view were to be adopted , one is left with the question as to which of the two pre-existing parliaments it is which has survived . |
| 10 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 11 | Nevertheless they do represent different ways in which psychotic vulnerability can manifest itself and reference to them helps to provide some clues as to which of its aspects might mediate any association that exists with creativity . |
| 12 | It is a subsequent and primarily political/moral question as to which of these should then constitute child abuse . |
| 13 | The report also draws upon research presented to it by Professor Cyril Greenland ( reported in full in Greenland , 1987 ) and comments as follows : Thus not only are we not given a definition but we are not given any clue as to which of all the cases that come to social worker 's notice are not high risk . |
| 14 | The main debate was as to which of these ethical expressions were most basic . |
| 15 | But for the moment his comments revealed that there was no longer the least doubt as to which of the contending voices on the Reichsrundfunk had acquired the title and character of Lord Haw-Haw . |
| 16 | Here the Court of Appeal has ducked the challenge completely by failing to provide any guidance at all as to which of the competing philosophies of punishment on offer should take precedence . |
| 17 | He may , it is true , exercise his free will as to which of these courses he shall adopt . |
| 18 | It can not be an informed decision unless the person who has provided the specimens of breath knows that there are two possible specimens which can be substituted for them and has been given the opportunity of making representations as to which of the two types of specimen it should be . |
| 19 | Next to the difficult decision as to which of many enchanting patterns or knots to draw on the soil with herbs , is the even more difficult but absorbing one of which species to grow . |
| 20 | It is not a very fruitful exercise to indulge in a long debate as to which of these two functions is the more important . |
| 21 | Yet while it seems conceivable that a group of critics , given an adequate degree of historical or philological knowledge , might agree as to which associations are possible in the case of a given word , there is considerable room for disagreement , since every word possesses a very wide range of associations , as to which of these are relevant for the purposes of interpretation . |
| 22 | Management must make a judgement , based on estimates of cost and benefit , as to which of the competing project proposals they will accept . |
| 23 | Management must make a judgement , based on estimates of cost and benefit , as to which of the competing project proposals they will accept . |
| 24 | Transrectal ultrasound and MRI should therefore be regarded as the techniques of choice for staging prostatic cancer , but as yet there is no firm agreement as to which of these techniques is the most accurate . |
| 25 | If such an exclusion of the Withington mosaic is accepted , It still remains a matter of conjecture as to which of the three closely related mosaics was earliest . |
| 26 | It is a corollary of collective responsibility that any minister who disagrees publicly with a cabinet decision should resign and that a government defeat in the House of Commons on a vote of confidence necessitates either the resignation of the government or a request for a dissolution ( there is no convention as to which of these alternatives the government should select ) . |
| 27 | Another view of some civil law courts is that neither set of conditions can apply to the contract ( since the parties manifestly wanted the contract to exist , acted as if it did , but could not agree as to which of their sets of standard conditions should apply to it ) . |
| 28 | as to which of those distinguished people should be dispensed with , but nevertheless it might be the advantage of everybody if the numbers of the cabinet were reduced to sixteen , I personally thought that for a very long time . |