Example sentences of "[vb base] as [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Farming 's image looks like getting another damaging self-inflicted dent as a result of what the public perceive as wholesale tax dodging . |
| 2 | We remain uninformed both about the now-extinct intermediates and the evolutionary processes that would have been responsible for the diversification of early multicellular animals into what we now perceive as distinct phyla , each with its own body plan . |
| 3 | The reasons for this appear to be ( a ) what the students perceive as cashable cheques in the job market and ( b ) a genuine intellectual concern to understand what is going on in their society . |
| 4 | By producing this Bill , and by everything that they have done , are doing and will do , the Government are endeavouring to give British Coal the time and the means to meet what we perceive as longer-term needs . |
| 5 | They wo n't buy what they perceive as Scottish products that are made in England . ’ |
| 6 | Will my hon. Friend commend as compulsory reading part of our proceedings in Committee when for the first time hon. Members listened for two or two and a half hours to — |
| 7 | The boundaries of physics constantly change as new discoveries are made , e.g. the discovery of new fundamental particles . |
| 8 | Unfortunately there is very little hard research evidence as to the sort of residential provision which best suits people with differing levels or types of disability , and fashions change as new ideas evolve . |
| 9 | Small side valleys , or tributary valleys , were cut less deeply and they remain as hanging valleys above the main U-shaped troughs . |
| 10 | Patches of the old floodplains remain as dry river terraces . |
| 11 | They are fully described in operation by Hansford Worth on Dartmoor , where they remain as stone-built structures . |
| 12 | They remain as isolated upland masses . |
| 13 | This obscures the fact that although States act as their representatives in international arenas , individuals remain as third parties . |
| 14 | THE goal of individual freedom and the value of society , which we advocate as democratic socialists , is a theory of sustained intellectual force . |
| 15 | A little later , the true wing tracheae develop as tubular outgrowths of the large tracheae , and extend into the vein cavities along with the larval tracheoles , which they supplant . |
| 16 | But I mean as any adoptive parent here will tell you , the strains when you adopt a child , or adopt children , very disturbed children are much worse ! |
| 17 | Sumner saw hunger , love , vanity and fear as key forces underlying individual behaviour and people developed a number of social institutions to maintain these needs . |
| 18 | Magistrates also sit as licensing committee dealing with licences granted to public houses , off-licences , restaurants etc. and related matters . |
| 19 | Civil servants sit as non-executive directors on some firms ' boards . |
| 20 | Fewer and fewer independent candidates sit as elected members , with many commentators now referring to this process of change as the ‘ nationalisation ’ of local politics . |
| 21 | Her hands stayed in her lap , limp as puppet limbs . |
| 22 | One old , old man , drunk and limp as old laundry but standing , yells at another old man who is sleeping with his head on the table . |
| 23 | But while all topics are necessarily subject to identity , clearly not all topics qualify as possible existents , and only a miniscule proportion of possible topics actually exist , and herein lies our problem . |
| 24 | If found guilty , he will be Russia 's most prolific serial killer and qualify as one of the most depraved mass murderers of all time . |
| 25 | First , whether the UK parent and its subsidiaries qualify as small companies in their own right under ss 246 and 247 , CA 1985 . |
| 26 | Moreover there can be no existents that can not be objects of thought , although , clearly , not all objects of thought qualify as potential existents . |
| 27 | Tolstoy has assumed , in The Minister and the Massacres and elsewhere , that the BGS who originate the signal was Brig Low ( now Lord Aldington ) , and ha used the phrase " verbal directive from Macmillan to Corps Command as important evidence to support his theory that at the 13 May meeting Macmillan had " initiated " moves to hand back the Cossacks , and had in effect used his political authority to " direct " 5 Corps to this end . |
| 28 | Herbaceous forms grow as tightly-packed mats ( Saxifraga , Stellaria ) , rosettes ( Draba , Potentilla ) or cushions ( Silene ) , habits that keep them under the snow in winter and close to the warm soil surface in summer . |
| 29 | If the recognition of spoken words is affected by preceding context then we would expect that this highly familiar context should be sufficient to rule out trestle and tress as possible candidates , despite their consistency with the partial word tres … . |
| 30 | When not in use these are tucked away in the Split boxes at the top right and bottom left of the screen and appear as black bars above and to the left of the arrows at the ends of the two scroll bars . |