Example sentences of "[vb base] as [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We pray for those who suffer as prisoners without trial ; for hostages , for deported people , for all victims of violence in this land and in the countries from which we come ; may they be comforted and delivered ; |
| 2 | Kangaroos can sustain speeds of up to 25 km/h for long periods ; but what they gain in the springs , they lose as pendulums . |
| 3 | Although Margaret knew I would not support her , I was on reasonable terms with her-so much so that during the battle for the Leadership I attended her constituency annual dinner and dance as guest of honour . |
| 4 | Another , equally peculiar to the judiciary in this country , is their particular version of the doctrine of the ‘ independence of the judiciary ’ ( see Chapter 4 ) , which leads them to resent what they perceive as interference by governments in their sentencing practice . |
| 5 | The history of the evolution of this project , provides a fascinating insight in the way in which Highlander has chosen to work in communities , and seeks to enable them to develop their own solutions to the situations which they themselves perceive as problem issues . |
| 6 | The tonic accent is what we normally perceive as stress . |
| 7 | The urbanity which we perceive as part of Anderson 's character is frequently related to his violations of the maxim of manner . |
| 8 | In this gall the leaf form lays a number of eggs by parthenogenesis ( self-propagation ) which , usually in the autumn , hatch as root forms . |
| 9 | It does mean that law is not a fixed , precise and immutable set of rules ; and that not only its content but also its form are subject to interpretation , adaptation and change as part of and in response to social change . |
| 10 | Things are what they are , and mankind is unchanging , even if men and women change as individuals from moment to moment . |
| 11 | My task has been to reconsider some of those complicated but always significant histories wherein differences conflict and converge as desire itself . |
| 12 | In fact , Mr Manning has repeatedly stated that he and the party would much prefer that Quebec remain as part of Canada , but not at any price . |
| 13 | Your correspondent could refer back to Northern Echo archives and CSE , but meanwhile he should let the Sydney Harbour Bridge remain as part of the history of the now defunct Dorman Long group and of Middlesbrough . |
| 14 | Today only a few stones and mounds remain as evidence of its existence . |
| 15 | The only condition is that fifty acres of it remain as woodland . |
| 16 | There , it can be shown that it is impossible to understand the plans of present-day villages without reference to the abandoned roads and former areas of farms and cottages which remain as earthworks . |
| 17 | Britain 's most famous ticket-broker said he will defy all his critics and remain as chairman , and claimed his problems were down to the media . |
| 18 | In the case of mapping to a Codasyl DBMS , each of the entity occurrences of the conceptual model becomes a record , the owner record in the set corresponds to the entity at the ‘ one ’ end of the relationship , with the other record as the member , the identifier or key of the entity remains the key of the records of the logical model , and the properties or attributes of the entity remain as data items or fields of the records . |
| 19 | The Monte toboggan ( carro de cesto or carro do Monte ) , unlike the bullock sledge and the hammock which now remain as exhibition pieces , is still in daily use , albeit as a tourist attraction . |
| 20 | Then you have to divide them up into those which make slender trees and others which remain as bushes with a fountain-like outline . |
| 21 | ‘ But both Graham and I knew it was impractical for me to continue in the job and remain as manager of Exeter . ’ |
| 22 | In the forest here , as elsewhere , the wild cocoa trees reach their full natural height of 20 m or so ( under plantation conditions cocoa trees rarely exceed 10 m ) and develop as clusters of a dozen or more leaning trunks . |
| 23 | I 'm sorry erm as far as the schools are concerned you had presumably a lot of contact I mean as part of the national curriculum is if if you like is to build contact with the community and the schools . |
| 24 | It 's just I mean as philosophy just very standardly takes words from ordinary language gradually gets a technical meaning , er which is different from the original meaning and then when ordinary speakers use it in the original meaning they get told off . |
| 25 | It 's been approved , but I mean as interest exactly what what 's been approved . |
| 26 | My God ! mean as muck , they are . |
| 27 | Their exercise , in terms of the movements they make as part of everyday living , become increasingly difficult to perform . |
| 28 | What is important is that each student is made aware of the chasm which separates the comfortable assumptions we make as teachers and the reality of the world beyond the school walls . |
| 29 | Make as sub-directory as WP papers . |
| 30 | The tests offer for pushchairs and baby buggies comes from Cheshire 's trading standards service as part of National Consumer Week . |