Example sentences of "[noun pl] as [prep] " in BNC.

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1 For in our national tradition , in the arts as until recently in sports , it is the amateur who is most admired ; and Auden 's charming joker by the Christmas hearth is only a particular version of the amateur .
2 ( c ) Parliament could not bind its successors as to the content , manner and form of subsequent legislation .
3 Superposition to form a master curve is readily achieved by movement along the log t axis , where the shift factor a τ has the same characteristics as for the relaxation data .
4 Among the visually handicapped pupils there will , of course , be as many heterogeneous characteristics as among children in any class , some being immediately attractive and outgoing , others timid or aggressive , just as one finds among their classmates .
5 There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling .
6 For example , there was some confusion over a recent policy decision to allow OICs greater autonomy in the use and administration of their budgets , without any clear guidelines as to what this meant in practice , or when it would take effect .
7 The final stage in the process was to make sure that the box provided was filled to half-way with plaster of Paris to absorb moisture , though he gives no guidelines as to how deep such a box should be ; ‘ after this , the cover and two windows were put down ’ .
8 But it provides guidelines as to what constitutes reasonable behaviour and it carries considerable weight at an industrial tribunal .
9 The researcher could not draw any generally valid or reliable conclusions from such discussions , but they should provide useful guidelines as to what areas should be followed up in the main enquiry .
10 We 're attempting to give the customer some guidelines as to the quality of companies . ’
11 We do not attempt to provide systematic instructions or guidelines as to how to establish Compacts .
12 The criteria may offer guidelines as to standards appropriate to grade levels and may in addition at any grade level be split into separate features of the mathematical investigation , leading to a set of marks or grades which then have to be aggregated in some way .
13 said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen .
14 Hence it is important for the legislation to spell out the situations and conduct that will be presumed to be anticompetitive , and to provide for the competition policy institution to publish guidelines as to how it proposes to apply the legislation .
15 Important decisions are made by key people , and other employees tend to rely on precedent in the absence of other guidelines as to what to do .
16 It certainly can not be argued that the ‘ development plan position will have been clarified ’ or that the Review ( or the Draft ) ‘ will be complete and offer good guidelines as to the issues to be tackled and the Council 's attitude to them ’ .
17 The second package would be designed for health care providers and would provide information as to women 's emotional needs at this time and offer guidelines as to appropriate and sympathetic care .
18 The cases have thus at best produced further guidelines as to the sort of factors to be taken into account .
19 Two years after Petrofina the House of Lords laid down guidelines as to what did and what did not , fall within the doctrine in Esso Petroleum Co Ltd v Harper 's Garage ( Stourport ) Ltd [ 1968 ] AC 269 .
20 Thus state enterprises are not faced with clear guidelines as to the balance between commercial objectives relating to the economic performance of the enterprise , and the political objectives concerning , for example , regional policy or employment .
21 The following are guidelines as to where direct selling is most appropriate .
22 Schools are given the same written guidelines as in the Major Project , but it is made clear that only a short proposal document is required to accompany the school 's spending plan .
23 They also bought blank cassettes , and Zuwaya used them at least as much to record poems and songs as to re-record other cassettes or broadcast music .
24 It is just as important to ensure that the contact names , addresses and phone numbers are included on captions as on releases .
25 The danger of injury or death arises less from fights between rival groups of fans as from the panic that actual or threatened attacks provoke amongst the general public .
26 Once we got to Heathrow airport I was able to get out of the car and stretch my legs as on travelling down to London I had fallen asleep with my knees on the floor and my head on the seat .
27 It might include a complex co-ordination between arms and legs as in driving a car .
28 In the lower part of the great still life , sketchily blocked in , we see the same configuration of legs as in the studies on paper .
29 The database administrator has to think very carefully when setting up numerous lists as to whether their use will justify the overheads .
30 and you erm you know your next big and the mean a signals as to whether or not it sort of the floor 's being offered .
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