Example sentences of "as [adj] give [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | namely Thucydides ) , but voting techniques were not : there was no counting of votes at all ( something which would have taken several hours when the agenda was as crowded as that given at the beginning of Demosthenes ' fiftieth speech of 362 BC ) , and the ‘ consensus ’ was determined by a show of hands , which tellers then adjudicated , in a fashion no more precise than that of a modern shop-steward who ‘ counts ’ a sea of hands at a trade union mass meeting . |
| 2 | Asserting , what was palpably untrue , that ‘ There are probably few people in India who do not sincerely regret that you should have made it impossible for any government to leave you at liberty ’ , he handed down a sentence of six years ' simple imprisonment , pointing out — the crowning touch-that the sentence was the same as that given to the nationalist hero Bal Gangadhar Tilak , twelve years before . |
| 3 | Witnesses were warned that if they gave false evidence they would suffer the same verdict as that given to the accused ( Mark 14:56–7 ; Matt. |
| 4 | A telephone call received by the Bogotá newspaper El Tiempo on Sept. 20 allegedly from the Medellín cartel had confirmed the kidnappings and included a demand that the government offer the cartel the same " political treatment " as that given to left-wing guerrillas in past peace agreements [ see below ] . |
| 5 | The advice is the same as that given for westward flights — though , of course , whether people living in the new time zone are awake or sleeping will differ . |
| 6 | The evidence was overwhelming , but none so precise and clear as that given by a Mr Bryant and his teenage daughter . |
| 7 | Although basically the same as that given in the Warhammer rulebook , we have made a few additions and included more explanation , so we suggest you read through these new rules even if you are already familiar with the original ones . |
| 8 | ( c ) Connected company A company is connected with the settlement if it falls within TA 1988 , s681(5). ( d ) " Capital sum " The expression " capital sum " has the same meaning as that given in s677 and any question whether a capital sum has been paid to the settlor by a body corporate or to a body corporate by the trustees shall be determined in the same way as any question under that section whether a capital sum has been paid to the settlor by the trustees ( s678(5) ) . |
| 9 | If the computer could be made to reply vocally and , perhaps , understand spoken commands ; even if the utterances were phrased in the same way as those given through keyboard and screen , the computer would be easier to use . |
| 10 | The question before me today is whether Parliament , in using similar language in section 265 , intended those words to bear the same meaning as those given to them by the House of Lords under the Act of 1914 . |
| 11 | The government refused the paramilitaries the political status which they requested , and offered them the same terms as those given to surrendering drug traffickers : a reduction of prison sentences in return for confessions to crimes . |
| 12 | In my judgment , and for substantially the same reasons as those given by the judge , the non est factum plea fails . |
| 13 | My reasons are the same as those given by the Court of Appeal . |
| 14 | The climatic boundaries of this graph are in part the same as those given by Penck ( 1910 ) , Davis ( 1912 ) and Troll ( 1947 ) whose influence is acknowledged by the writer . |