Example sentences of "as [prep] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A joint tenant might , however , transfer his interest in his lifetime ( though not by will ) ; and such a transfer would , before 1 January 1926 , have had the effect of making the transferee a tenant in common with the other or others , though the others continued as between themselves to be joint tenants . |
| 2 | However , as for everyone in society , the most common needs are , broadly speaking , a sufficient income , good physical and mental health , suitable accommodation , and social opportunities . |
| 3 | It is thought that for a house in the high-rate stratum the assets are about four times as great as for one in the low-rate stratum , and that the stratum standard deviation is proportional to the square root of the stratum mean . |
| 4 | And as for you with getting dead set that that I would just ! |
| 5 | With regard to the former , Arnauld argued against Malebranche that ‘ objective presence ’ to a mind does not require ‘ local presence ’ , and that for something to be objectively present to a mind is not the same thing as for it to be causally active on it . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | If 14 days be a reasonable length of time in such a contract in this particular trade , and if he waits seven days before entrusting the goods to a third person on sale or return , that third person has the right to keep them as against him for 14 days , whereas the original owner has a right to the return of them within seven days from that date and I think that is clearly an act inconsistent with anything but his having adopted the transaction . ’ |
| 8 | By a summons dated 15 March 1991 the third , fourth and fifth defendants ( ‘ the solicitors ’ ) sought an order pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 18 , r. 19 that the amended statement of claim , alternatively that paragraphs 11 and 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim , be struck out as against them on the ground that they disclosed no reasonable cause of action ; alternatively , an order pursuant to R.S.C. , Ord. 14A that the court had no power under section 6(2) of the Financial Services Act 1986 to make the order sought in paragraph 11 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim and that the court had no power under section 61(1) of the Act of 1986 to make the order sought in paragraph 13 of the prayer to the amended statement of claim . |
| 9 | This is a new departure and a very welcome one , although , as with everything like this , we have our doubts as to whether end users will exercise good taste and discretion in its application . |
| 10 | It 's up to him , as with everyone at Grendon , to see out the rest of his time . |
| 11 | No mention about the difficult task that the County Council 's got in living within a budget , a capping level of three hundred and seventy million , and it would be reasonable , in in a , in a , in a sense that when somebody 's proposing opposition to a budget , it gives some indication as to what within the budget , would have to be cut . |
| 12 | There can be little doubt as to what in the way of topics and register the Host expects in the Monk 's Tale ; he concludes his observations on Melibee with : and continues with a description of the Monk that matches with the impression " Chaucer " claims to have of the Monk in the General Prologue , of a " " manly man " " , straining at the bounds of what is allowed to a monk ( and not dissimilar to the monk of the Shipman 's Tale ) : After nearly a hundred stanzas of the Monk 's tragedies , the Host is prepared to give him a second chance , as " Chaucer " had , but feels this time he has to be more specific as to what is wanted : But as soon as the Monk speaks we have the opportunity to see , firstly , that his reaction does not suggest he is flattered or pleased by the Host 's appraisal of him , and secondly that he sounds quite different from the bold and thrusting " man 's man " that " Chaucer " and the Host would make of him : Note how the Monk 's desire to offer literature that " " sowneth into honestee " " anticipates Chaucer the prosist 's retraction of the tales " " that sownen into synne " " . |
| 13 | It may be that neither statement need be held to subtract from the other , but there could well be some dispute as to which of the two is the more deeply entrenched in the novel . |
| 14 | Unfortunately many modern anthropologists are very vague as to which of these different objections they are making when they object to ‘ evolutionism ’ in general . |
| 15 | The Assemblies never approved military intervention in Lebanon ; the small contingent of Libyan troops there was said to consist of volunteers , and the decision as to which of the groups within Lebanon they should support seems to have been reserved to Qaddafi . |
| 16 | Without it individuals would have had a choice as to which of the acceptable solutions to adopt . |
| 17 | Centred on one Sir Colenso Rigeon , a caricature of Wright , it concerned the decision as to which of the two men should be saved from death — a sixpenny doctor ( ’ an honest decent man , but is he any use ? ’ ) or a scoundrel of an artist ( ’ a rotten background , but he 's a genuine source of pretty and pleasant and good things ’ ) . |
| 18 | To the non-specialist there seems little doubt as to which of these theories provides the correct explanation . |
| 19 | In the case of Irish union the pre-existing parliaments are nowhere expressly abolished ; on the other hand , it is nowhere stated , or implied of necessity , in any of the union legislation , that one of the pre-existing parliaments was continued under a new style and , indeed , if this view were to be adopted , one is left with the question as to which of the two pre-existing parliaments it is which has survived . |
| 20 | There was no question , of course , as to which of them would have to put the proposal for ‘ protection ’ to Cowley . |
| 21 | Nevertheless they do represent different ways in which psychotic vulnerability can manifest itself and reference to them helps to provide some clues as to which of its aspects might mediate any association that exists with creativity . |
| 22 | It is a subsequent and primarily political/moral question as to which of these should then constitute child abuse . |
| 23 | The report also draws upon research presented to it by Professor Cyril Greenland ( reported in full in Greenland , 1987 ) and comments as follows : Thus not only are we not given a definition but we are not given any clue as to which of all the cases that come to social worker 's notice are not high risk . |
| 24 | The main debate was as to which of these ethical expressions were most basic . |
| 25 | But for the moment his comments revealed that there was no longer the least doubt as to which of the contending voices on the Reichsrundfunk had acquired the title and character of Lord Haw-Haw . |
| 26 | Here the Court of Appeal has ducked the challenge completely by failing to provide any guidance at all as to which of the competing philosophies of punishment on offer should take precedence . |
| 27 | He may , it is true , exercise his free will as to which of these courses he shall adopt . |
| 28 | It can not be an informed decision unless the person who has provided the specimens of breath knows that there are two possible specimens which can be substituted for them and has been given the opportunity of making representations as to which of the two types of specimen it should be . |
| 29 | Next to the difficult decision as to which of many enchanting patterns or knots to draw on the soil with herbs , is the even more difficult but absorbing one of which species to grow . |
| 30 | It is not a very fruitful exercise to indulge in a long debate as to which of these two functions is the more important . |