Example sentences of "'s [noun sg] as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Queen 's worry as to how the Dolls ' House opened was a perfectly reasonable one . |
| 2 | A suitable compromise is for both parties to rely on the opinion of a leading Queen 's Counsel as to whether or not and to what extent the purchaser 's claim is likely to succeed . |
| 3 | The holder 's decision as to whether to exercise the option will depend on the relative values of the shares to which he would be entitled on conversion and the cash receivable , including the premium , on exercise of the option . |
| 4 | However , local authorities have a local appeals procedure under which officers may appeal if they are dissatisfied with the authority 's decision as to whether it is necessary to move home or if they are dissatisfied with any of the authority 's decisions in relation to the application of the relocation provisions . |
| 5 | Held , allowing the appeals , that the Secretary of State was required to afford to a prisoner serving a mandatory life sentence the opportunity to submit in writing representations as to the period that prisoner should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence before the Secretary of State in the exercise of his power under section 61 of the Act of 1967 set the date of the first review of the prisoner 's sentence ; that , before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make representations , the Secretary of State was required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which had not been disclosed at the trial and would be relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for those purposes ; but that the Secretary of State was not obliged to adopt that judicial view or , if he departed from it , to give reasons for doing so , and that he was entitled to delegate his powers for that purpose to a junior minister within the Home Department ; and that , accordingly , the decisions made by the Secretary of State as to the length of the period each of the applicants should serve before the date of the first review of their sentences should be quashed and that each applicant should be given the opportunity to make written representations after he had been informed of the judicial opinion regarding the period he should serve before review ( post , pp. 963B–C , 969A–C , 973F–H , 974A–B , 977B–D , 979C–F , 980E–G , 981F–G , 983C–D , 984C–E , 985B–C , 986H — 987A , F–G , 988C–E , G–H , 989B–C , D–E , 991B–C , 992F–H , 993B–E , F–G ) . |
| 6 | We are concerned with the Secretary of State 's decision as to the first period , the ‘ tariff . ’ |
| 7 | ( 2 ) Before giving the prisoner the opportunity to make such representations , the Secretary of State is required to inform him of the period recommended by the judiciary as the period he should serve for the purposes of retribution and deterrence , and of any other opinion expressed by the judiciary which is relevant to the Secretary of State 's decision as to the appropriate period to be served for these purposes . |
| 8 | How then is it contended that the courts have power to review the visitor 's decision as to the effect of the domestic law of the university in this case ? |
| 9 | USER_INPUT/ — is an input parameter specifying the DC identifier to be assessed , the assessment comment and this user 's decision as to whether he agrees with the changes being implemented . |
| 10 | The court 's decision as to what constitutes a class conceals the policy issues in the decision . |
| 11 | Death being a fairly serious matter , a body can not be disposed of until a doctor 's certificate as to cause of death has been received by the registrar . |
| 12 | The Crown admitted that the judge 's direction as to the effect of good character was flawed in the manner contended for by the defendant but , adopting the view of the Court of Appeal , while admitting the error , contended that it had caused no injustice . |
| 13 | Editor , — It is unfortunate that Gary P Bray adds to the confusion over deaths from paracetamol overdose by an apparent failure to recognise the difference between the cause of death and a coroner 's verdict as to its motivation . |
| 14 | Hahnemann disagreed with Cullen 's hypothesis as to the mode of action of cinchona and took some himself to see what effect it would have . |
| 15 | But there was more than a little doubt in Harriet 's mind as to whether his wife was remotely in love with him . |
| 16 | There was evidently some dilemma in Gould 's mind as to whether a work on the birds of Europe or just the birds of Britain would prove most lucrative . |
| 17 | However the buyer then perhaps raises a problem , which decreases the level , or perhaps doubts arise in the buyer 's mind as to whether the claims made for the product are completely justified . |
| 18 | This is every day 's practice as to excess freight . |
| 19 | And then to withhold one 's vote as with almost a matter of habit and routine , that can not be in the best interests of the Conservative party . |
| 20 | The creator god Khnum is often depicted modelling man and Ka together on his potter 's wheel as through the Ka was a double of clone . |
| 21 | I did , but possibly too strong a word , but certainly I think erm , I think the struggle in the last couple of years with regard to the parish council , has been to , to actually introduce it to people 's perception as of anything but importance . |
| 22 | Can not we argue , indeed , on the basis of the usual meaning of ‘ faith ’ that involves trust in the face of intellectual un certainty , that Russell 's uncertainty as to whether or not God exists , the agnostic position , is the one the theist in fact should hold ? |
| 23 | The only decision to be made is the number of copies , which no doubt rests as much upon the price of the book and the size of the university 's bookfund as upon quality factors . |
| 24 | All Ollie 's fault as per usual . ’ |
| 25 | It opens the door to those who seek to attack or curtail social work activity and , after all , knowledge is ‘ power ’ as much for one 's enemy as for oneself . |
| 26 | But the word earendel is strange , not ordinary Old English , and evidently pre-dating its context ; Tolkien was caught by a difference of texture , prompting his own verses on ‘ The Voyage of Earendel ’ , in 1914 , and the reply to G. B. Smith 's question as to what they were about , ‘ I do n't know . |
| 27 | The first two of those were also included were made public , they are in the issue 's papers it did not make public the county council 's proposal as to who should be participants for each topic since those were matters for the the panel er to ma take a view of and I understood er from er the question er the answer to the question that it had been made clear that er the information had been made public except as always Chairman , er our legal office 's of the council always like that caveat that in case anything had been missed out I had just in fact suggested that perhaps not everything had been made public so I anticipated a possible supplementary question from Mr . |
| 28 | In particular they assumed that it was possible , at any given moment , to make reasonably precise comparisons of the real strength of the States concerned , to estimate accurately the advantages of Britain 's wealth as against Russia 's population or Prussia 's efficient bureaucracy . |
| 29 | For while the health and safety , and the prospective redundancy of its members , are the union 's business as of generally recognised right it is by no means clear that an industrial strategy that was anything more than a slogan would be . |
| 30 | And it can not be said that that is the union 's business as of generally recognised right to decide , or to share in deciding , that application . |