Example sentences of "as to [art] " in BNC.
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1 | Divorce is against my wife 's principles but she might get ideas as to a legal separation . ’ |
2 | East Berliners have been offered free tickets for a football match today in West Berlin as well as to a number of concerts and the opera . |
3 | However , the Court of Appeal has now attempted to rectify the anomaly by holding that the prosecution must prove intention or recklessness as to physical harm , not as to a mere assault . |
4 | Where a crime requires knowledge or recklessness as to a certain circumstance , and the defendant holds a mistaken belief about that circumstance , logic demands that an acquittal should follow . |
5 | To a tenth-century man or woman ( and Karl Leyser has shown the great importance of nunneries in the aristocratic social order of tenth-century Saxony ) , as to a modern monk or nun , the raison d'être of monasteries was their communal worship , their liturgy . |
6 | This requirement is as relevant to an industrial organisation as to a city , town or village . |
7 | As vital to a painting , building or symphony as to a multinational trading corporation or the kitchen of a domestic house . |
8 | Sturdy Lancastrian independence produced some unexpected lines of questioning , frequently as hostile to a tired-looking Kinnock as to a hopeful-looking Major . |
9 | They are not necessarily extravagant but devote themselves to appearance as to a very demanding goddess whose exigencies may account for that well-kempt , bad tempered look most of them adopt . |
10 | The contribution to income from savings and occupational pensions has increased , as to a much lesser extent has income from state pensions and other benefits . |
11 | As Alice Walker has pointed out , Blackwomen must read history for clues not facts , and it seemed essential to leave clues as to a more holistic range of our artistic pursuits . |
12 | A lending bank must concern itself as to a country 's political stability . |
13 | One returns to a half-dug hole as to a part-written love-letter , wondering why you started it in the first place and doubting whether it will ever be completed . |
14 | ‘ I ask that henceforth , whatsoever the provocation and difficulties , you will remain loyal and true to the lady Anne — as to a sister . ’ |
15 | ‘ He must have forgotten to tell us , ’ Richard said slowly , as to a simpleton , and deliberately confusing the issue . |
16 | Precepts of holiness , he declared , might just as well be preached to a wolf as to a man , if man were naturally and inevitably wicked . |
17 | Even if the child 's articulation is poor , the adult is likely to be able to make a good guess as to a likely meaning . |
18 | This room can not be entered ethereally ; the stonework contains enchantments which make it as solid to an ethereal traveller as to a material one . |
19 | It is , then , because he is explaining differences and resemblances as he is that Darwin , in 1838 , needs a theory of purely opportunistic adaptive change in changing conditions , a theory making no developmentalist assumption as to a preferred direction that life will take provided it can go on at all . |
20 | While scepticism may be present in such societies , it takes a personal , non-cumulative form ; it does not lead to a deliberate rejection and reinterpretation of social dogma so much as to a semi-automatic readjustment of belief . |
21 | I have to admit I 'm not as eager to give money or pictures , say , to a Carnegie Museum as to a Museum of Modern Art , and I 'd rather give to the Museum of Modern Art than the Guggenheim Museum . |
22 | In some circumstances , a locally-resident examiner may have special expertise , as where evidence as to a marriage in China was ordered to be taken in Hong Kong . |
23 | It would thus have been as applicable to a teacher , for example , as to a practitioner of any manual skill . |
24 | It is not unknown for a philosopher or scientist , lured by the song of the sirens , which is to say an interpretation of Quantum Mechanics , to drift off course to a proposal as to a better or improved conception of causation . |
25 | Sexual dysfunction may arise from fear of pregnancy or parenthood , anxiety as to the possibility of venereal disease , guilt as to a child 's disability , or anger at the sex role thrust upon one by society . |
26 | The law says nothing as to a woman who has sexual intercourse with a man who is in a similar situation . |
27 | Held , dismissing the appeal , it was a serious defect in the summing-up to omit a direction on the burden of proof : but the omission was not necessarily fatal to the conviction and the court could properly consider whether to apply the proviso to section 2 of the Criminal Appeal Act 1968 : Donoghue ( 1988 ) 86 Cr.App.R. 267 , 272 per Watkins L.J. , distinguishing Edwards ( 1983 ) 77 Cr.App.R. 5 ( where the omission was as to a direction on the standard of proof ) . |
28 | Subject of course to the wording of the particular statutory provisions , those general observations are as pertinent to the case of a security granted to a bank by an unregistered company as to a security granted by a company formed and registered under the Companies Acts . |
29 | But we are prepared to give some guidelines or pointers as to the practice and procedure to be adopted when a hearing as to a wasted costs order takes place . |
30 | Mr. Sumption 's argument would , if right , be as applicable to the contravener as to a person ‘ knowingly concerned . ’ |