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JKBelieve Posted 17 years ago
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'Moreover, any restrictions applied shall not be such as will reduce the total of imports relative to the total of domestic production.'
What's bothering me in this sentence is 'such as will'...is this grammatical feasible? Isn't there a better way of expressing this? Such as replacing 'as' with 'like'...?
What's bothering me in this sentence is 'such as will'...is this grammatical feasible? Isn't there a better way of expressing this? Such as replacing 'as' with 'like'...?
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Again, we are dealing with a special style of writing used in legal documents. "such like will reduce" would be even worse. You don't want that!
- Again, we are dealing with a special style of writing used in legal documents.
- "such like will reduce" would be even worse.
- You don't want that!
- The intended meaning is this: ...
- any restrictions applied must not be among those kinds of restrictions which will reduce ...
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Again, we are dealing with a special style of writing used in legal documents.
"such like will reduce" would be even worse. You don't want that! The intended meaning is this:
... any restrictions applied must not be among those kinds of restrictions which will reduce ...
CJ
"such like will reduce" would be even worse. You don't want that! The intended meaning is this:
... any restrictions applied must not be among those kinds of restrictions which will reduce ...
CJ
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