Example sentences of "as [verb] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My hypothesis is that there is a space for a socialist argument in favour of investment planning ; that such an argument could be presented in such a way as to appeal to organised labour and even to broader strata of the population concerned about employment prospects and their standard of living in retirement ; that if organised workers were to support the proposal they could use their union organisation to press for social accountability of their savings funds ; and that if the proposals were not linked to a ‘ dogmatic ’ pursuit of nationalisation they would stand a chance of recruiting some support from the more progressive elements of the state and corporate salariat — those whose technical expertise would be required in any such project , even if it is overlaid with oppressive ‘ professional ’ and ‘ managerial ’ ideologies — helping to isolate , so far as possible , reactionary financier elements . |
| 2 | But it has remained as puzzling to modern historians as it was shocking to contemporaries . |
| 3 | Secondly , and most serious , are allegations of ‘ Clever Hans ’ errors ; named after the German horse early in the century that gave correct answers to arithmetical problems shown it on a blackboard ( by tapping with its hoof ) until it was unmasked as reacting to unwitting symptoms of tension in its trainer which caused it to stop at the right moment . |
| 4 | It is a possibility which should always be borne in mind when neck spasm is being treated , particularly if it does not respond as expected to tension-release techniques . |
| 5 | However , in practice this exception has been interpreted as applying to similar contracts issued by other entities . |
| 6 | A slightly different argument is made by Paust ( 1983 ) who argues that general principles must be accepted as applying to new weapons , but they must be coupled with effective enforcement measures . |
| 7 | We think of design only as applying to aesthetic matters like furniture or graphic art but it applies to everything . |
| 8 | To a decreasing extent , the same principle can be seen as applying to other blood relations . |
| 9 | Section 7(1) could be construed as applying to previous enactments , but it was argued that it applied also to subsequent enactments . |
| 10 | Following mainstream psychology 's prescriptions , it presents itself as committed to good methodology . |
| 11 | At this stage , the sequence has developed towards what Simmel calls the relativistic world view , which he understands as contributing to certain attitudes to the world which comprehend processes rather than just entities ( 1978 : 101–8 ) . |
| 12 | The government clearly sees it as contributing to economic growth but there are significant misgivings among conservation groups and local residents about the environmental impact on Kent and Sussex . |
| 13 | Language units have also been developed as part of Higher National Certificates ( HNCs ) and Higher National Diplomas ( HNDs ) and these may be offered as free-standing courses as well as contributing to other courses such as business studies and hospitality management . |
| 14 | Training seen as contributing to personal development |
| 15 | Alternatively , they view women psychologists as contributing to feminist psychology only when they work in a culturally woman-identified way . |
| 16 | As well as contributing to declining soil fertility , such high sediment removal are causing problems with water supply by increasing reservoir siltation rates . |
| 17 | On the " substantial " interpretation , they are seen simply as relating to certain terms which if substituted for variables in the relevant propositional schemata yield ( contextually ) true propositions , irrespective of whether or not such terms stand for actually existing objects . |
| 18 | These assurances , however , were accepted as relating to constitutional theory . |
| 19 | Alternatively , they may be seen as relating to foreign investments which should be translated at the year-end ( the closing rate method ) . |
| 20 | The subjects of the first year of this proposed course would be anatomy , physiology , conformation and external diseases ; in the second year , surgery , materia medica , pharmacy and botany as relating to veterinary medicine ; in the third year , pathology , epizootic diseases , treatment and prevention of disease , hospital practice and shoeing . |
| 21 | These taboos against women as polluting to male sacred space are very ancient . |
| 22 | The Committee identified some of the gaps in research as related to inadequate statistical information , particularly in central government . |
| 23 | Such studies are exemplified by the work of Professor K.W. Butzer on areas in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean where he reconstructed stages of landscape change as related to Quaternary stratigraphy and indicative of changing Quaternary climates . |
| 24 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 25 | This ‘ sweeping under the carpet ’ syndrome as applied to female deviance reflects the congruency of the sociologist 's values with those of the wider society . |
| 26 | The slogan ‘ reduction of waiting lists ’ as applied to elective surgery or outpatient appointments is simplistic and may have no relevance to actual or imminent medical needs of patients and their families . |
| 27 | Oeppen has continued to investigate the structure of projection models as applied to long runs of data from the past . |
| 28 | In the case of subject searches , the criterion as applied to traditional IR systems has been that of retrieval effectiveness , based on the concept of relevance and the measures of recall and precision . |
| 29 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
| 30 | In 1847 the Congregational Union Year Book included a thirteen-page section , ‘ Remarks on Ecclesiastical Architecture as Applied to Nonconformist Chapels ’ . |