Example sentences of "as [prep] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As for what may be called , although not very properly , the conflict with our ordinary ways of speaking , in which events , facts , and things are mentioned as causes or conditions , and also other items ( Ayer , 1972 , p. 133 ) , the principal explanation is that we are in accord with the rooted practice of taking the whole for the part . |
| 2 | Next , if I were wise only to my own ends , I would certainly take such a subject as of itself might catch a clause , whereas this ’ — he is of course writing about the vexed question of erm Church government and the possible disappearance of episcopy — ‘ whereas this hath all the disadvantages on the contrary , and such a subject as the publishing whereof might be delayed at pleasure and time enough to pencil it over with the curious touches of art , even to the perfection of a faultless picture , whereas in this argument the not deferring it is of great moment to the good speeding . |
| 3 | Using the same value for control absorption as above one can estimate that hexamethonium blocked about 85% and lidocaine about 50% of the secretion caused by the bacterium . |
| 4 | The numbers are in green for par and above , for ‘ go ’ as in you might as well go home , and red for below par , for ‘ stop ’ as in you can stop here for the last two rounds . |
| 5 | The numbers are in green for par and above , for ‘ go ’ as in you might as well go home , and red for below par , for ‘ stop ’ as in you can stop here for the last two rounds . |
| 6 | Little wonder then that those who seek peace ( that is the absence of violence ) between nations as well as within them should look to law as a means of regulating and reducing the international use of force . |
| 7 | He thought : I believe that this is how I shall remember her when it is over , as over it will surely be sooner or later . |
| 8 | Two knights were to be elected in each county court to appear before the Council ‘ with full power to assent for the community of the county as to what shall be ordained … concerning the forests ’ : all landowners who wished to claim the disafforestment of their lands and woods were to be there to substantiate their claim . |
| 9 | But , with simultaneous political vacuums this weekend in Prague and East Berlin , there must be some apprehension as to what may happen if either or both implodes . |
| 10 | Surely an ethical theory is not much use without some view as to what may induce humans to live by it . |
| 11 | I have suggested that a meaningful way to set the limits as to what may rightly be called a Christian position , is that Christians are those who proclaim Jesus to have been unique . |
| 12 | I you know how conservative I am with figures and er with advising you as to what may occur I 'm myself relatively confident that erm we shall meet our ticket sales target by the year end and that there will be no as there as there 's been in previous years since er the aforementioned not to be noted er crisis . |
| 13 | It reviews research that has already been conducted in this area and offers suggestions as to what may be priorities for future support . |
| 14 | The continuing partners will wish to minimise the possibility of their having to negotiate with the trustee in bankruptcyanother reason why the partnership agreement should deal with clarity as to what may ultimately be payable to the trustee and when . |
| 15 | They probed and measured and cross-questioned Phoebe in the most condescending manner , made worse by the fact that they clearly did not have a clue as to what might have happened . |
| 16 | There are no easy answers but maybe a few guidelines as to what might be happening , for Margaret , staring dry-eyed and forlorn into a new day , and for all the other people who have ever had that sort of feeling . |
| 17 | For a clue as to what might have been going on , we turn again to the Chinese system of feng shui , which was mentioned in Chapter 4 . |
| 18 | On the other hand , if I encounter a text which deals with an unfamiliar content area and does so in accordance. with communicative or rhetorical conventions which are new to me , then I obviously have to look much more closely at the language itself as a source of information as to what might be meant . |
| 19 | My Government accepted your presence here despite warnings as to what might happen if they did so ! ’ |
| 20 | And he was under no illusions as to what might happen to their relationship if Philippe Chaumont returned . |
| 21 | And they had also made guesses as to what might be possible if the deuterium and oxygen gases that were bubbling off from the cell could be recombined and their latent energy recovered and used as heat . |
| 22 | He certainly engages in speculation as to what might have happened but treats it as such , continually emphasising that multiple interpretations of the data are possible , that there are many important matters to which he has not had access and that only limited and tentative conclusions may be drawn . |
| 23 | Who can resist those mercurially silvery little discs with just a hint of credit card iridescence to reinforce the enigma inherent in all records — that , until they are played , their mysterious surface autism offers no clue as to what might be within ? |
| 24 | Chrissy Allott , Catherine Snelling and Nick Spokes of Fullwell Cross Library in Ilford , Essex , have written to me in response to Brough Girling 's recent call for suggestions as to what might have happened in grown-up life to the heroes and heroines of the children 's books of our youth . |
| 25 | said about the Animal Procedures Act of nineteen eighty six , erm , I know she 's been told about the animals are killed painlessly and that they suffer very little pain , where there 's any pain at all , but in fact this act erm which is governed by a committee only erm issues guidelines as to what might happen . |
| 26 | Mira takes these facts and re-inserts them in narrative — not the original narrative representations from which they were drawn , for these are inaccessible to her , — but playful conjectures as to what might have been . |
| 27 | We only have theories as to what might really be involved . |
| 28 | ‘ Well , all Heather 's friends and relatives have racked their brains for clues as to what might have become of her , as you can imagine , and I remembered her mentioning visiting you here a few months ago . ’ |
| 29 | Writing is included because , particularly at the later phases of primary schooling , curriculum guidelines are rare , and it remains unclear as to what might reasonably be expected of children once they have mastered putting words onto paper . |
| 30 | It was for this same reason that José Antonio Primo de Rivera , while supporting the military rising , had harboured serious doubts as to what might be the fate of his party in the event of a triumph by the military . |