Example sentences of "as [prep] [Wh det] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 While he was still undecided as to what to do a bus appeared round the corner and slowed to a halt near by .
2 Further , he might find it interesting ( and salutary ) to read ( see , for example , [ 71 ] , [ 115 ] ) how such great mathematicians as Euler , d'Alembert and Daniel Bernoulli came , around 1750 , to arguing about their respective solutions to the " vibrating string " problem essentially because their ideas as to what constituted a function did not coincide .
3 If the justices had applied the wrong criteria as to what constituted a breach of the peace in the case of the mother-in-law , it is difficult to see how the court could have been so sure that the justices had applied the right criteria to the decision of the policeman .
4 There is no agreed definition as to what constitutes a knowledge worker .
5 The CPA 1987 is not clear as to what constitutes a holding-out and much will depend upon how the branding is perceived by the reasonable consumer .
6 Although a number of security interests are clearly accepted as being recognised by English law , there is some doubt at the penumbra as to what constitutes a security interest and , in particular , as to whether there is a numerus clausus of such interests .
7 As was pointed out earlier , there is some uncertainty as to what constitutes a security interest ; it is submitted that the courts will adopt something along the lines of the definition of Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C. set out at the commencement of this chapter .
8 The court 's decision as to what constitutes a class conceals the policy issues in the decision .
9 But , as this figure also suggests , this is in fact a view which accepts dominant ( white , middle class ) views as to what constitute a city 's back or front regions .
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