Example sentences of "[pron] as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do n't SEE WHy people grope us together as holigans 'cos we ai n't alright you get troble makers in every facktion But They do nt publish it if a niggeR does a old Biddy do they give us a faiR chance will someone as for stop being a SKIN I do nt think I will . ’ |
| 2 | We have not , therefore , been able to satisfy ourselves as to the amounts included in respect of these subsidiaries , or the effects , if any , that the proceedings may have upon the consolidated financial statements . ’ |
| 3 | I am astonished that the author did not consult ourselves as to the allegations made prior to publication . |
| 4 | And I will read it as farm tenants of Leicestershire county council we wish to retain the freedom to make the decision ourselves as to whether fox hunting with hounds takes place on our land . |
| 5 | And just to show that even identical twins can be a bit different Gareth reserved one of his As for biology while Jonathan got one for history . |
| 6 | It may be that Gallagher does provide the House with a full jurisdiction which an appellant/respondent can avail himself as of right . |
| 7 | ‘ We did not bring them here to sit in the stand , ’ Roxburgh said , although he would not commit himself as to whether either was considered a starter against the French . |
| 8 | The question Brenton appears to be asking , and it is surely as relevant to himself as to his characters , is how do you live after faith and hope have gone ? |
| 9 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |
| 10 | There are language-systems , he points out , within which that characteristic of English whereby the utterer is not obliged to commit himself as to the truth of his utterance is not to be found ; in such systems the utterer is obliged to commit himself . |
| 11 | The girl or parents who worry because menstruation has not occurred by the sixteenth year are usually troubling themselves unduly ; the boy who troubles himself as to the length of his penis or the girl who worries about mammary development are also worrying unnecessarily as a rule . |
| 12 | It is for the judge alone to determine facts upon which the admissibility of evidence depends and , similarly , it must be for him to satisfy himself as to matters involved in an application to stay because of abuse or , as the judge preferred , ‘ misuse ’ — of process . |
| 13 | By a notice of appeal dated 24 December 1991 the local authority appealed with leave of the judge on the grounds that ( 1 ) the judge had erred in law or misdirected himself as to the criteria to be applied to the decision whether leave should be granted in respect of an application by a former foster parent ; ( 2 ) the judge should have applied the test whether ( a ) there were quite exceptional circumstances disclosed necessitating the ousting of the local authority and the consequent discharge of the care order , and ( b ) there was a real likelihood that the applicant could persuade the court to adopt that course and ( c ) such a course was in the interests of the children ; ( 3 ) alternatively , if the judge had adopted the correct test , his exercise of his discretion had been plainly wrong in that he had failed to give any or sufficient weight to ( a ) the disturbing effects on the children of further investigation , ( b ) the fact that if residence orders were made the care order would be discharged , ( c ) the shared responsibility between the foster mother and the mother resulting from section 12(2) of the Act of 1989 , ( d ) the fact that the foster mother 's proper remedy was her application for judicial review , and ( e ) the wishes of the children and the mother . |
| 14 | The applicant sought relief on the grounds that ( 1 ) at the time the coroner took his original decision there was considerable evidence before him that the death would not have occurred but for delays experienced by the deceased 's family in contacting the ambulance service and later delays by the ambulance service in responding to repeated calls by the police for an ambulance to come to take the deceased to hospital as a matter of urgency ; ( 2 ) in reaching the conclusion that an inquest was unnecessary the coroner had misdirected himself in law for the reasons , inter alia , that ( i ) section 8(1) ( a ) of the Coroners Act 1988 required a coroner to hold an inquest where there was ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the deceased had died a ‘ violent or unnatural death ; ’ ( ii ) there had been clear and uncontradicted evidence before the coroner that avoidable and culpable delays by the ambulance service might have been the reason why the deceased 's asthma attack , which could have been treated in hospital , proved fatal , giving rise to a ‘ reasonable cause to suspect ’ that the cause of the deceased 's death was ‘ unnatural ; ’ and ( iii ) against that background , the coroner had erred in law in treating the pathologist 's conclusion as conclusive and had either misdirected himself as to the meaning of ‘ unnatural death ’ in section 8 of the Coroners Act 1988 or failed to apply the law properly to the facts of the case . |
| 15 | He directed himself as to the onus of proof by saying : |
| 16 | — the C. and A.G. satisfying himself as to the accuracy of the appropriation accounts ( s. 1(2) ) ; |
| 17 | If the hon. Gentleman serves on the Committee that is to consider the Bill , he will be able to reassure himself as to the way that works . |
| 18 | Any person including any proposed acquiror of securities of the company referred to in this document or any business or assets referred to herein must satisfy himself as to all matters relating to that company or such business assets including all the information and statements contained herein . |
| 19 | Any person including any proposed acquiror of securities of the company referred to in this document or any business or assets referred to herein must satisfy himself as to all matters relating to that company or such business assets including all the information and statements contained herein . |
| 20 | ‘ It gives me a chance , ’ they heard him mutter , as much to himself as to Andrus . |
| 21 | However , in view of the complicated nature of the process , the person applying for a patent would be well advised to satisfy himself as to the ability of his agent . |
| 22 | Indeed he was probably uncertain himself as to what the end-point would be , except that it was bound to be a less rigid and less bipolar system than the old one ; and he assumed that a more flexible multipolar system would not only be more advantageous to France but would be safer and more equitable for all states . |
| 23 | It is our counterpart to the psychoanalyst 's ‘ training analysis ’ ( or simulated illness and cure ) , a traumatic endurance test in which the tyro anthropologist discovers almost as much about himself as about the people he has come to study . |
| 24 | It is said , therefore , that Mr. Perry having exercised undue influence to procure Mrs. Perry 's execution of the document , the bank is in no better position than he is himself as against Mrs. Perry . |
| 25 | He saw himself as in some way subverting that tradition : they told Hawaiians to put their clothes on and stop surfing ; he was taking his off and going pagan all over again . |
| 26 | So Patrick had no use for Edward Balliol ; but , by aiding Edward the Third , almost certainly saw himself as in a position to displace the unsuccessful Balliol and himself take over as King of Scots , with English support . |
| 27 | ( Although Dad , she knew , saw himself as in line for one some day . |
| 28 | Neil , who never thought of himself as in any way a Galahad , or a knight errant in shining armour , saving virgins under attack , nevertheless felt compelled to investigate , particularly when the cry came again , more despairing than ever . |
| 29 | F 5 ; not surprisingly since he probably grew up in Persian-held Ionia , which as with Herodotus , Ephorus and Herakleides must have helped determine his literary bent . ) |
| 30 | In the second place , the position of strangers who deal through the husband with the wife in a transaction operating to the husband 's advantage may , by that fact alone , be affected by any equity which as between the husband and wife might arise from his conduct . |