Example sentences of "as [being] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | At any point in this curve , both torsion and curvature , as well as being proportional to one another , are inversely proportional to the length of the arc from the apex to that point . |
| 2 | However if we want to interpret the density of field lines as being proportional to the field strength then both figures must represent D since it is the flux of D that remains constant across a dielectric boundary . |
| 3 | Radio , television and films project images of sophisticated living that are often presented as being available to all who work hard enough . |
| 4 | The effect of this in an ordinary classroom is interesting and attractive , as well as being useful to pupils who are visually handicapped . |
| 5 | It is quite possible for one organisation to be audited at five levels , as well as being accountable to internal decision-making bodies , political masters , and the law . |
| 6 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 7 | The views expressed ( obiter ) by this House in Reg. v. Morris [ 1984 ] A.C. 320 that ‘ appropriation ’ involves an act by way of adverse interference with or usurpation of the rights of the owner treats the word appropriation as being tantamount to ‘ misappropriation . ’ |
| 8 | The government rejected this as being tantamount to handing over one-third of the country 's municipalities to the guerrillas , and insisted that the armed forces had to be present in every part of the national territory . |
| 9 | Librarians in colleges of education , as befitted people closely in touch with the professional education of teachers , made considerable advances in the integration of the teaching and administrative roles of their collections and their staffs , and increasingly regarded a wide range of teaching commitments as being suitable to them . |
| 10 | These groupings have TEED ( the Employment Department 's Training , Enterprise and Education Directorate ) approval as VQs , and are accepted as being equivalent to NVQs at levels 1 , 2 and 3 . |
| 11 | Now we can also think of the use of a polariser as being equivalent to a measurement of the polarisation , since we know that the transmitted beam has to have its polarisation in this perpendicular direction . |
| 12 | The knowledge world is seen as being equivalent to a population , and the spread of an idea through that population is described as following the same pattern as the spread of an infectious disease through that population . |
| 13 | In these purely syntactic terms , equation has the obvious value that the language user regards one entity or property , in some given context , as being equivalent to the other . |
| 14 | Answer guide : The answers need to show an understanding of the trial balance as being equivalent to the first balance on the worksheet and the extended trial balance as including the end of year adjustments . |
| 15 | As far as being listening to you talking today earlier on it seems to you set up in your minds a win lose situation , I 'll show that . |
| 16 | During 1740 the First Lord of the Admiralty , with Walpole 's support , tried to carry a bill to create a national register of sea-faring men from which suitable recruits could be sought in time of crisis , but it was denounced by the Opposition as being akin to slavery and thrown out . |
| 17 | They describe it as being akin to an English boarding school of the mid-twentieth century . |
| 18 | An even older Sivapithecus ( 17 million years old ) has been claimed for Kenya as being ancestral to the hominid chimpanzee-gorilla lineage a relationship which is confirmed by molecular studies — and the Asiatic orang-utan lineage ; whether this animal is to be considered congeneric with the later species of Sivapithecus is disputed , however . |
| 19 | The police treated those who refused to turn back as being vulnerable to the charge of obstruction of the police in the execution of their duty , contrary to section 51(3) of the Police Act 1964 . |
| 20 | The IMF criticized the new currency as being vulnerable to inflation . |
| 21 | Hugging , touching and kissing , as well as being close to people , presents no risk of infection . |
| 22 | As well as being close to so much North European prosperity , Brussels offers the boon of a 6% rate of VAT on objects sold at auction as against the crippling 18.6% imposed on all but ‘ original works of art ’ in Paris . |
| 23 | I do have friends who are footballers or whatever , but it 's not the same as being close to other jockeys . |
| 24 | Barracks Lane is conveniently located for pleasant walks across open fields as well as being close to the Cowley Road with its full range of local shopping , medical and recreational facilities . |
| 25 | Initially a pitch of a ♯ = 408 was chosen as being close to the Bate Collection 's recorders of the period : at this pitch it sounds fine but one could easily allow that the original use of the instrument might have been at a higher pitch than this . |
| 26 | The two men dismissed were regarded as being close to Moslem fundamentalist circles . |
| 27 | Much was made by Labour campaigners of the high level of unemployment among the Russian-speaking immigrants , reported as being close to 25 per cent or twice the national average , and even affecting highly qualified professionals . |
| 28 | It was seen as being opposed to liberalism , as opposed to nationalism and perhaps there were , there were er , there were , there were good reasons er for that . |
| 29 | The two specific areas which are currently under consideration are Sentence Planning and Pre-release Programmes and SCOTVEC modules are seen as being central to these initiatives . |
| 30 | The prospects for establishing bad faith are very limited however , given that virtually any policy that is premised on increasing profits but which will be damaging to employees , such as a plant closure , can be portrayed as being beneficial to the employees in general , for example by making other jobs in the company more secure , thus supporting the claim that employee interests have been sufficiently considered . |