Example sentences of "[vb base] as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Currency : yen ( US$1.00=145.2802 yen as at Feb. 5 , 1990 ) . |
| 2 | The charges followed an investigation by the Tokyo District Prosecutor 's Office into allegations that he had failed to declare profits of 2,800 million yen ( US$1.00=135.622 yen as at Dec. 31 , 1990 ) made on stock market deals conducted during his period in office . |
| 3 | In all , the 21 firms acknowledged paying some 173,000 million yen ( US$1.00=137.111 yen as at Aug. 23 , 1991 ) to more than 700 favoured clients between October 1987 and March 1990 . |
| 4 | Currency : yen ( US$1.00=132.772 yen as at Sept. 30 , 1991 ) . |
| 5 | The opposition agreed in early March to halt its campaign of disruption , and on March 13 the 72,200,000 million yen budget was passed by 268 votes to 211 in the lower house ( US$1.00=133.926 yen as at March 16 , 1992 ) . |
| 6 | Spared the indignity of being questioned in person , it was reported on Sept. 25 that lawyers of the veteran power broker had delivered a written statement to the Public Prosecutor 's Office in which their client acknowledged breaching the Political Funds Control Law through the receipt of 500 million yen ( US$1.00=121.928 yen as at Oct. 26 , 1992 ) from Sagawa Kyubin . |
| 7 | The aide , Masahisa Haibara , described how he had handled $500 million yen ( US$1.00=123.642 yen as at Dec. 14 , 1993 ) in undeclared cash donations on behalf of Kanemaru 's office . |
| 8 | In only one of these cases does the fact that the anthropologist was , up to a point , studying members of his own society appear as in any way an advantage . |
| 9 | Clearly , it could not have enhanced it ; why obey a legal system in which senior officials publicly pose as against one thing but privately collude in its occurrence — not only ought they to be condemned as hypocrites but their laws ought also to be disregarded as mere propaganda concealing the lack of will to control corporate behaviour . |
| 10 | So far the discussion has considered the separate elements in the UK tax system in isolation , but a common query concerns the burden of the tax system as a whole , say as between countries or across income ranges . |
| 11 | However , so keen was Germi to get Dustin that he had made him co-producer , and allowed him equal say as to how the role was to be played . |
| 12 | These are both highly controversial instances : Winterbotham 's pioneering account , Lewin 's detailed study , and Calvocoressi 's memoir disagree as to whether Coventry was sacrificed in order not to compromise the source of intelligence . |
| 13 | However , on further examination it is clear that they often disagree as to what constitutes pornography , while overlapping on representations of sexual violence , they radically disagree on those of non-violent , non-marital sexual practices . |
| 14 | Where the Auditors and Purchaser 's Accountants disagree as to the valuation of an item and , where the disputed element of the valuation is less than [ £1,000 ] for an individual item , or the aggregate value of all disputed elements of valuation within the stock and work in progress are less than [ £10,000 ] both parties shall agree to accept the Auditors ' valuation . |
| 15 | Where the Auditors and Purchaser 's Accountants disagree as to the valuation of an item and , where the disputed element of the valuation is less than £1,000 for an individual item , or the aggregate value of all disputed elements of valuation within fixed assets are less than £3,000 both parties shall agree to accept the Auditors ' valuation . |
| 16 | Not only is the professional designer faced with a wide variety of hygiene regulations , but in many cases fire officers disagree as to exactly how the fire risk which is inherent within any working kitchen can best be minimised . |
| 17 | National parks and wildlife sanctuaries provide as near perfect conditions as you can expect for painting wildlife and we have chosen the Seewinkel area and Lake Neusiedl in Austria as our base . |
| 18 | One is release in which we walk as through a landscape , seeing the sublime aspects of nature and life , sometimes feeling the euphoria of release . |
| 19 | The results of the test are instructive , but as much for the complications they reveal as for any neat conclusion . |
| 20 | I saw this frog as a small jewel box , a matrix in which the pure notes of music were formed and cut as by a skilled diamond cutter and then released as glittering , crystalline jewels . |
| 21 | ( 4 ) For purposes of this section ‘ deception ’ means any deception ( whether deliberate or reckless ) by words or conduct as to fact or as to law , including a deception as to the present intentions of the person using the deception or any other person . |
| 22 | ‘ That 's persuade as in ‘ batter me into submission ’ ? ’ she questioned , with a smile . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's persuade as in ‘ do whatever it takes ’ , ’ Vitor replied , and jerked his head towards the skip . |
| 24 | Mix as for previous recipe . |
| 25 | Mix as for previous recipes . |
| 26 | Mix as for previous recipes . |
| 27 | Mix as for previous recipe . |
| 28 | Far from being unflattering , they add cleavage , volume or support as in the Gossard Wonderbra . |
| 29 | Whether two or more mental events count as of the same type in our sense , to repeat , is a matter of whether there is a discriminable difference in content , any such difference , whether or not the events are included under the same more or less general description . |
| 30 | Thaw at room temperature , add peeled prawns , peppers and beaten egg whites and bake as in Step 6 . |