Example sentences of "as [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is a possibility which should always be borne in mind when neck spasm is being treated , particularly if it does not respond as expected to tension-release techniques . |
| 2 | Following mainstream psychology 's prescriptions , it presents itself as committed to good methodology . |
| 3 | The Committee identified some of the gaps in research as related to inadequate statistical information , particularly in central government . |
| 4 | Such studies are exemplified by the work of Professor K.W. Butzer on areas in the Middle East and in the Mediterranean where he reconstructed stages of landscape change as related to Quaternary stratigraphy and indicative of changing Quaternary climates . |
| 5 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 6 | This ‘ sweeping under the carpet ’ syndrome as applied to female deviance reflects the congruency of the sociologist 's values with those of the wider society . |
| 7 | The slogan ‘ reduction of waiting lists ’ as applied to elective surgery or outpatient appointments is simplistic and may have no relevance to actual or imminent medical needs of patients and their families . |
| 8 | Oeppen has continued to investigate the structure of projection models as applied to long runs of data from the past . |
| 9 | In the case of subject searches , the criterion as applied to traditional IR systems has been that of retrieval effectiveness , based on the concept of relevance and the measures of recall and precision . |
| 10 | Hence , a dynamic consideration of portfolio analysis , as applied to major investment decisions with their relatively long time horizons , does not just mean moving SBUs up or down the portfolio grid by transferring resources between them ( from ‘ cash cows ’ to ‘ problem children ’ and ‘ stars ’ ) . |
| 11 | In 1847 the Congregational Union Year Book included a thirteen-page section , ‘ Remarks on Ecclesiastical Architecture as Applied to Nonconformist Chapels ’ . |
| 12 | They further describe research as covering quality , distribution , accessibility , outcome , and effectiveness , as applied to professional health care ( self care or public health activity ) . |
| 13 | Little was known , however , of whether ESRC support was more important in some areas than others or whether , in areas where there is significant support from other sources , ESRC 's support for basic or strategic research ( as applied to applied ) might nevertheless be critical . |
| 14 | It involved spasmodic attempts at boosting advanced teaching and research in science and other fields of " modern " study , especially as applied to industrial organization and technological development . |
| 15 | Graham Hough develops this argument as applied to English studies by claiming that the Christian-humanist ideal is now worn and battered , with a resulting confusion within literary education . |
| 16 | The results with quail provide direct support for the discrepancy hypothesis as applied to sexual preferences and indirect support for the notion of optimal outbreeding . |
| 17 | Members of staff have research interests in the following fields — Medieval : Modern literary theory as applied to medieval texts ; mythology and fantasy ; oral literature ; questions of transmission and textual criticism . |
| 18 | Status consciousness , as applied to male/female speech differences , is a construct that tries to squash everything into the one-dimensional framework of class ; to the extent that other things are relevant it therefore fails . |
| 19 | If the attitudinist can make sense of deductive reasoning as applied to ethical statements , it seems that he can make sense of the embedding of ethical sentences in complex sentences where the attitude they would express on their own is , so to speak , held in reserve . |
| 20 | This chapter is therefore structured to show how systems thinking was incorporated into physical geography , to outline the way in which systems approaches have been utilized in other disciplines , and then to sketch the position of the several branches of physical geography in the early 1980s as a vehicle for proceeding towards what may be an emerging focus for a unified approach to the system as applied to physical environment at the scale traditionally employed by the physical geographer . |
| 21 | Similar problems are likely to arise in respect of artificial intelligence systems , or heuristic systems as applied to medical diagnosis where again two paths are open but the possibilities which socially useful design make possible would appear to have been ignored . |
| 22 | The pieces we loaned made up the ‘ influence of ’ section , with each piece was a particularly rare and important example of Japonisme as applied to domestic silver , and we shall have some of those pieces displayed for sale at this year 's fair . |
| 23 | The authors discuss neither Simpson nor the important paper by John Cronin et al in 1981 ( Nature , vol 292 , p 113 ) which summarises the mass of morphological and molecular data which contradict the punctuational argument as applied to human evolution . |
| 24 | The department has major research activities in the pathological sciences and has closely co-ordinated research interests in Immunology , Molecular Biology , Virology and Microbiology , both in veterinary species ( especially the sheep , pig , cat and dog ) and as applied to human medicine . |
| 25 | A conscious strategy has been adopted to promote a low skill , low cost , numerically flexible and compliant labour force as preferred to alternative models of a high skill high wage economy . |
| 26 | That is , if ( for the purposes of semantic or pragmatic interpretation ) we think of deictic expressions as anchored to specific points in the communicative event , then the unmarked anchorage points , constituting the deictic centre , are typically assumed to be as follows : ( i ) the central person is the speaker , ( ii ) the central time is the time at which the speaker produces the utterance , ( iii ) the central place is the speaker 's location at utterance time or CT , ( iv ) the discourse centre is the point which the speaker is currently at in the production of his utterance , and ( v ) the social centre is the speaker 's social status and rank , to which the status or rank of addressees or referents is relative . |
| 27 | Motion two nine four refers to the discrimination council workers face as compared to private sector employees particularly in relation to redundancy schemes . |
| 28 | Despite the exemplary use of material culture as evidence , there is no discussion of its nature and growth as compared to other media . |
| 29 | Data collected through interviews with management and unions in a dozen industries are analysed to find out what was distinctive about the inherited characteristics of these industries in London at the beginning of the period as compared to other parts of the country . |
| 30 | Some of the reasons for this — the difficulty of deciding on appropriate proxy variables and on economical yet non-biasing temporal and spatial sampling frameworks , taking account of the relative importance of aperiodic and rare events as compared to near-continuous processes , processing the vast volumes of data usually involved and organizing the multidisciplinary and ( often ) multinational researchers involved — are discussed briefly later . |