Example sentences of "as [verb] [prep] [pron] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although it is possible to interpret ‘ freedom of the press ’ in such a way as to include within it the ‘ freedom ’ to make a political choice and to volunteer one 's support , it does seem that political parties of the left are rarely favoured by newspapers . |
| 2 | BELVILLE : As human life is uncertain I have disposed my affairs so as to secure to you the power of living as a person ought who is my widow . |
| 3 | So as naturally as anything , Judith switched to Spanish and greatly impressed the customer as well as pressing upon him the need to provide proper facilities for his ladies . |
| 4 | Certainly however ‘ an incremental menu of services ’ will be provided to principal members as committed to its the 1994 fiscal funding . |
| 5 | Certainly however ‘ an incremental menu of services ’ will be provided to principal members as committed to its the 1994 fiscal funding . |
| 6 | As said to me a long time ago , ‘ You use too much water over there ’ , but what he really meant was , we do not use enough fluid , and the right types of fluid . |
| 7 | As you will see the Q.T. days for the 1989/90 programme have been arranged with one day at the beginning of each term , as requested by you the teachers , and reflect the requests and feed-back given during the past year . |
| 8 | Moore would surely grant that there is an indefinability of the word which follows from the fact that what it labels is indefinable , while those who treat it as a statement about a word see it as turning upon what the word is supposed to stand for . |
| 9 | With so much media space currently devoted to the heinous depredations the naked ape has inflicted on his habitat , it seems an inappropriate moment to celebrate the career of an artist whose entire work reflects his abiding faith in mankind ; an artist who gloried in presenting humanity dressed up in the paraphernalia of a glamorous performer , or as an honest victim of other men 's rapacity , so as to elicit for him the onlooker 's sympathy . |
| 10 | Of course , by ‘ nation ’ Rousseau meant no more than the people in a locality as opposed to what the word came to mean , the inhabitants of an established State . |
| 11 | Well Mr er Deputy Speaker I er do n't wish to er follow the honourable member of one of my er neighbours but I actually think it 's really part of grown up politics to ensure that the political opinion of a nation is adequately represented in the forums of that nation whether it be in this place or in the European er parliament and to that extent I make no bones about it that erm I wish that we were debating a different electoral system and Mr Deputy Speaker going back to the minister 's introduction erm it is a fact , I did n't wish to intervene because I did n't , it 's a short debate and I did n't want to take up er extra time , but it is a fact is it not that our electoral system unique across Europe means that our deadline as opposed to what the French are going to do is different to all the other member states . |
| 12 | Their value in battle , as shields behind which the knights could shelter before they launched their charge , ensured their continued employment by those who could afford them — notably Henry II of England . |
| 13 | Certainly , to repeat , the terms " subject " and " object " are not to be taken as carrying with them the Cartesian theory of a subject in the sense of a simple indivisible mental substance whose identity over time is primitive and irreducible . |
| 14 | The suppression of to has the effect of leaving no distance between the request and the action requested so that the actualization of the request is represented as carrying with it the realization of what is asked . |
| 15 | ( 2 ) For the purposes of this section : ( a ) " special road " and " special road authority " have the same meanings as in the Roads ( Scotland ) Act 1984 and ( b ) " class I " means class 1 in Schedule 3 to the Act , as varied from time to time by any order under section 8 of that Act , but , if that Schedule is amended by such an order so as to add to it a further class of traffic , the order may adapt the reference in this section to traffic of class 1 so as to take account of the additional class . |
| 16 | In his well argued submissions Mr. Wall submitted that the discretion conferred on the court by article 13 ( a ) of the Convention is a discretion to be exercised ( a ) within the context of the purpose and principles laid down by the Convention and ( b ) by applying the criteria contained within the Convention itself , and that it is accordingly not a discretion to exercise the inherent jurisdiction of the court in wardship or under the Children Act 1989 so as to act in what the court perceives to be the best interests of the child . |