Example sentences of "[conj] as [verb] [art] " in BNC.

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1 It is possible to construe the words " the relevant income of a year of assessment " in two ways , ie as establishing a " once-and-for-all " test or as establishing a " continuing review " test .
2 The Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit , reconsidering Re Anschuetz on remand from the Supreme Court in the light of Aérospatiale , declined to re-interpret the Aérospatiale decision as requiring first resort to the Convention or as sanctioning the use of Blackmun J. 's tripartite analysis .
3 Decisions that fall outside the parameters of ‘ ordinary ’ unreasonableness may give rise to liability , but those indicating a lesser degree of ineptitude will be categorised as merely imprudent , or as involving an error of judgment , and will , accordingly , be safe from attack .
4 At common law it may be unlawful as amounting to a trespass to the highway , or a public or private nuisance , or as involving the inducement or procuring of a breach of contract .
5 The many gaps in the fossil record can be interpreted both ways — as being due to the intrinsic incompleteness of a record based on random serendipitous preservation , or as reflecting the true historical sequence : what you see is all there is .
6 8.1 In the event that the Secretary of State shall reject the Proposal either generally or as respects the proposed funding or participation of any proposed Party in the Project or if the Grant Offer Letter shall not have been issued and accepted by the Parties within six months of the date of execution hereof , then upon such rejection or the expiration of such six month period the Project shall , unless otherwise agreed , be deemed abandoned , the Proposal shall be withdrawn and any rights hereunder shall be deemed to have been terminated and each Party shall be entitled to require each other Party forthwith to deliver up and return to it all Technical Information and all other information supplied by it in connection with the Proposal together with all copies thereof in any form in the possession of such other Parties or any of its Related companies .
7 ( 2 ) In case of a dissolution of the partnership , whether as respects all the partners or as respects the assigning partner , the assignee is entitled to receive the share of the partnership assets to which the assigning partner is entitled as between himself and the other partners , and , for the purpose of ascertaining that share , to an account as from the date of the dissolution .
8 Not that one is offering literature as a substitute religion or as providing a philosophy for life .
9 The former approach may be regarded as paternalistic or a proper expression of public policy , and the latter as showing respect for the autonomy of the individual or as permitting the exploitation of the worker , depending on one 's point of view .
10 SERAFIN : Yes , you see , I have been attempting to identify and generalize the various things that we perceive as affecting or as constituting the quality of life .
11 As the history of Shakespeare criticism has shown , Lady Anne has all too often been seen either as a particularly silly person or as representing the weak and malleable sex .
12 Consequently the two uses of the to infinitive arise from representing the extra-verbal support either as separated from the actualization of what the verb denotes by a lapse of time or as attaining the place in time where this actualization takes place .
13 Elders who sustain high levels of verbal consciousness are unlikely to be perceived as ‘ old ’ , but rather as continuing ‘ middle aged ’ or as having a special status derived from their past education or profession .
14 Although individual client executives tend to favour dealing with known consultants , if those consultants leave their firms , they are not necessarily then seen in the same light , or as having the same resources at their disposal .
15 It is commonplace to describe a lexeme which has a number of senses as polysemous ( or as manifesting the property of polysemy ) , and a lexical form which realises lexical units belonging to more than one lexeme as homonymous .
16 ‘ I do n't see that as fulfilling a social need , ’ said Helen .
17 Gandhi might well regard that as making a fetish of the principle of ahi sā .
18 You can unmistakably identify that as making the difference between outstanding success and mediocrity . ’
19 But I , like the judge , decline to regard that as justifying an inference that Mr. O'Brien was appointed the bank 's agent .
20 But , in the case of the latter it has been recognised that as regards the obligation , now in section 242 , to deliver accounts and reports to the Registrar ( thus making them available to the public ) they ( like partnerships ) are entitled to exemption .
21 The description of the facts is somewhat exiguous and I can not help feeling that if they had been fully stated the case would fall to be treated as involving a demand colore officii rather than as supporting the Woolwich principle .
22 They should be treated as place-holders for other propositions , rather than as representing a logically independent class of propositions of their own .
23 But it was Barth himself who really carried this programme through , insisting that even the doctrines of creation and sin must be grounded in christology , that there is no predestination of God apart from Jesus Christ , that on the cross Jesus himself is the one rejected and abandoned by God , and that both judgement and mercy , reprobation and election , must be seen as worked through in him , All these lines must , so to speak , be carried into the centre where they meet in Jesus Christ himself , and be seen as opening out from him rather than as constituting a distinct frame of reference into which he can be subsequently fitted .
24 However , unlike Mills they see professional groups as losing their power and influence rather than as joining the power elite .
25 The court held that this was a breach of the Convention guarantee of free speech , because it would deter journalists from contributing to public discussions of issues affecting the life of the community : " The limits of acceptable criticism are wider as regards a politician as such than as regards a private individual … the former inevitably and knowingly lays himself open to close scrutiny of his every word and deed by both journalists and the public at large , and he must consequently display a greater degree of tolerance . "
26 The court can , on the application of the official receiver or trustee , summon the bankrupt , his or her spouse , or any person suspected of having any property of the bankrupt in his possession or information as to the bankrupt 's dealings , affairs or property , to appear before it ( s 366(1) ) and , except as regards the bankrupt or his or her spouse , require an affidavit to be submitted to the court containing an account of dealings with the bankrupt or require the production of documents relating to the bankrupt 's dealings , affairs or property ( s 366(1) ) .
27 Out of this maelstrom we can select only a few thinkers and those ideas which stand out in retrospect as marking out the major developments and as setting the scene for more recent times .
28 The natural sciences have proved so enormously successful in modern times that they are now commonly regarded as the supremely useful and valid intellectual discipline , and as setting the standard to which all other kinds of enquiry must conform if they are to be taken seriously as dealing with truth and reality .
29 The Buid do not regard themselves , and are not regarded by the Christians , as belonging to the same social system , and as sharing an underlying set of political values .
30 The conference was misleadingly regarded as a success and as reversing the trend in relations .
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